Heston Snodgrass
Principal Software Engineer at Puppet
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolHeston Snodgrass is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years of experience specializing in infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and compliance-focused configuration management. At Puppet he leads the Compliance Enforcement Modules team, architecting turnkey modules that enforce standards like CIS while owning the CI/CD and internal tooling that keep delivery reliable. He’s fluent in translating security frameworks (NIST, CIS) into practical, automated solutions and mentors engineers to scale those practices across product, services, and sales teams. A former Marine Corps Cyber Network Operator, he brings disciplined operational security and hands-on systems experience to software engineering problems. He also experiments with generative AI to accelerate module development—an indicator of his appetite for practical innovation beyond standard automation.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Software Development and Security, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Software Development and Security at University of Maryland Global CampusMarine Corps Communications/Electronics School
English
Github Skills (54)
puppet10
winrm10
bolt10
docker-desktop10
points10
catalog9
snmp9
r10k9
augeas9
specification9
shortest-path9
nodes9
ssh8
editing8
puppet-enterprise8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
puppetlabs/abide_dev_utils
Jan 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:67 reviews, 61 commits, 68 PRs in 1 year 9 months
hsnodgrass/prom_cm1000_exporter
Jun 2020 - Jan 2022
A Prometheus metrics exporter for the Netgear CM1000 modem
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 7 months
exporterprometheus-exportermetrics-exporternetgearprometheus-metrics-exporter
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.