Ivan Godwin
Software Engineer - Site Reliability at The Apache Software Foundation
Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIvan Godwin is a Senior Software Engineer and Site Reliability specialist based in Oregon with nine years of professional experience building cloud-native systems in Go and Kubernetes. He currently leads development and release efforts for VMware GemFire for Kubernetes and now applies his SRE skillset at Abnormal AI, blending hands-on engineering with strategic architecture work. Ivan has a strong enterprise background across VMware, Broadcom, and Pivotal, designing scalable infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and multi-cloud solutions on AWS, GCP, and Azure. An active Apache Geode committer, he has contributed to improving reliability of distributed tests in a widely used open-source in-memory data grid. He thrives at the intersection of code and operations, preferring roles where he can both ship software and drive cross-functional initiatives that reduce risk and accelerate delivery. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, test-first approaches that tame flakiness in complex distributed systems.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at George Fox University
German
Github Skills (7)
javas10
test-framework10
junit10
geode10
assertj10
java10
testing10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apache/geode
Dec 2019 - Oct 2021
Apache Geode
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & QA Engineer
Backend Developer & QA EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 9 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Ivan primarily contributed to improving the reliability and stability of the Apache Geode project, focusing on addressing flakiness in distributed tests. Their work involved implementing `Serializable`, utilizing Dunit and Cache rules, and employing AssertJ for more robust testing. They also refactored tests by inlining super calls, using latches instead of sleeps and implementing setup and teardown methods to reduce the test's execution time.
accumuloapachenetwork-serverdatagridjava
igodwin/geode
Nov 2019 - Oct 2021
Apache Geode
Contributions:135 pushes, 158 branches in 1 year 11 months
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