Harold Grunenwald
Sr. Engineer (SRE) at Walt Disney World
Greater Orlando United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHarold Grunenwald is a senior Site Reliability Engineer with 14 years of systems and operations experience who now drives reliability at Walt Disney World while retaining a hands-on, self-taught software developer mindset. A DevOps evangelist and public speaker, he founded the Capital Region Operations Group to grow community practice and created programs at Datadog to scale advocacy and mentorship. His career spans enterprise reliability, observability and automation—improving uptime for consumer-facing sites and building configuration, deployment and monitoring pipelines across organizations. He contributes to open-source documentation (notably improving clarity for the Graphite-web project) and brings a habit of documenting everything to reduce operational friction. Outside engineering he applies focused craft skills as a leathercrafting journeyman and volunteers with Team Rubicon, reflecting a practical, service-oriented approach to problem solving.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Marine Corps Communications & Electronics School
Github Skills (3)
documentation10
python5
django4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
graphite-project/graphite-web
Apr 2014 - Jul 2018
A highly scalable real-time graphing system
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:88 commits, 23 PRs, 15 pushes in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Harold primarily contributed to the project's documentation. They fixed broken links, corrected formatting issues, added new sections to the documentation, and improved the overall clarity and organization of the existing content. This work focused on the configuration and usage of the Graphite-web application. The changes reflect an effort to improve the documentation for end-users and developers.
scalablepythondjangographite-componentsgraphite-web
gwaldo/dotfiles
Nov 2011 - Jan 2023
Contributions:162 commits, 1 PR, 83 pushes in 11 years 4 months
dotfilesconfigsconfignothing
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