J Marhee is a Kubernetes and cloud-native technology consultant with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and operating software-defined compute, network, and storage solutions. Currently at SUSE, he helps organizations adopt and scale cloud-native platforms while bringing practical IaaS expertise from prior roles at Equinix, Platform9, DigitalOcean, and others. He contributed to the well-known GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer project by adding Equinix Metal provider support, demonstrating deep familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and provider integrations. Comfortable across backend engineering, developer tooling, and customer-facing technical leadership, he bridges product needs and operational reality. Based in the Quad Cities, he pairs a multidisciplinary academic background with a pragmatic focus on reliability and automation. Colleagues describe him as a systems-first engineer who prefers solving infrastructure puzzles end-to-end rather than hand-waving architecture.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, MULTI/INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES, Bachelor of Arts - BA, MULTI/INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES at Arizona State University
CLI tool to generate terraform files from existing infrastructure (reverse Terraform). Infrastructure to Code
Role in this project:
Back-end & Cloud Engineer
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR in 3 days
Contributions summary:J focused on integrating Equinix Metal provider support into the terraformer project. Their work involved setting up commands for the provider, adding client setup, defining resource generators for devices, SSH keys, spot market requests, and volumes. Furthermore, the user updated the main command-line interface (CLI) to include the Equinix Metal provider, integrating it into the broader terraformer ecosystem. They also updated the `go.mod` file to include necessary dependencies.
Contributions:27 commits, 17 PRs, 67 pushes in 5 months
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