Jacob Helwig
Principal Software Engineer at AllSpice.io
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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RockstarJacob Helwig is a Principal Software Engineer based in Portland, Oregon with 17 years building reliable infrastructure, security, and developer tooling across startups and mature teams. He blends deep back-end expertise—contributing to core Puppet server automation and audit improvements—with front-end and full-stack fixes in widely used open-source projects like Puppet Dashboard. Jacob has a strong testing and QA automation pedigree, enhancing the Beaker acceptance harness with randomized test execution and remote file utilities to make large-scale testing more robust and reproducible. His roles have spanned platform security at CircleCI, API work at The Dyrt, and senior engineering leadership, showing a consistent focus on operational resilience and secure, testable systems. Not obvious at first glance: he’s been a long-term open-source maintainer and module author dating back to CPAN days, demonstrating enduring commitment to community-driven tooling. He now applies that mix of hands-on coding, security mindset, and system-level thinking to drive engineering at AllSpice.io.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (30)
configuration-manager10
puppeteer10
javascript10
system-configuration10
jquery10
puppet10
rspec10
configuration-management10
acceptance-testing10
ruby10
configurations10
test-automation10
ssl9
tls129
user-interface9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
puppetlabs/puppet
Jun 2011 - Jun 2019
Server automation framework and application
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:240 commits, 146 PRs, 77 pushes in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jacob's contributions centered on enhancing the audit functionality within the Puppet framework. They enabled the audit meta-parameter to accept both "all" and ":all" values, and also addressed a bug with the default CA name, prepending "Puppet CA: " to the fqdn to resolve certificate lookup issues. These modifications involved changes to core type definitions, SSL certificate generation, and testing.
frameworkautomationjavaautomation-frameworkserver-automation
sodabrew/puppet-dashboard
Aug 2010 - Nov 2011
The Puppet Dashboard is a web interface providing node classification and reporting features for Puppet, an open source system configuration management tool
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:82 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Jacob contributed to the Puppet Dashboard project by addressing both frontend and backend issues. Their work included fixing a labeling error in a runtime graph (frontend) and adding the jQuery UI library for autocomplete functionalities (backend). Furthermore, the user updated the project's JavaScript code related to the token input, addressing whitespace issues, and integrating new features like selecting tokens via space and blur events to enhance usability. These changes suggest a focus on improving both the user interface and the underlying codebase.
system-configurationweb-interfacereportingpuppetconfiguration-management
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