Jeff Byrnes
Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering at athenahealth
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Byrnes is a seasoned site reliability leader with 13+ years building and operating resilient cloud and on-prem infrastructure, now managing SRE teams at athenahealth. A former musician-turned-engineer, he applies creativity and discipline from music to design reliable automation and infrastructure-as-code with tools like Chef, Terraform, Vault, Consul, and AWS. He’s led migrations to automated, AWS-based systems, managed complex datacenter and SAN-backed database environments, and coached engineers through career growth while keeping production healthy. An active open-source contributor, Jeff has improved cross-platform testing and compatibility for widely used Chef cookbooks (including PHP and OpenVPN cookbooks). Based in Somerville, MA, he combines hands-on systems expertise with people-first leadership and a knack for quickly mastering new technologies.
14 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Music, Music at Berklee College of MusicHigh School Diploma High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School Diploma High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Charlotte Catholic High School
Stackoverflow
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11questions
rvm
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mod-rewrite
top-5%
Github Skills (30)
cookbook10
back-end-development10
chef-client10
automation10
php10
chef-solo10
automations10
devops10
operating-system10
ubuntu9
compatible9
rvm9
configuration-management9
htaccess9
mod-rewrite9
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
sous-chefs/openvpn
Mar 2018 - Oct 2020
Development repository for the openvpn cookbook
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 20 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily focused on improving the testing infrastructure and ensuring the OpenVPN cookbook's compatibility across various operating systems. Their contributions included updating unit tests to use ServerRunner for improved functionality, fixing InSpec tests for CentOS, and correcting tests for Ubuntu 14.04. They also addressed metadata, updated dependencies, and dropped support for SUSE, demonstrating a focus on maintaining code quality and cross-platform compatibility.
openvpnchef-resourcechefmanaged-by-terraform
sous-chefs/php
Jun 2020 - Apr 2021
Development repository for the php cookbook
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 33 commits, 10 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily contributed to the infrastructure and build process of the PHP cookbook, managing dependencies and configuration. They refactored code to remove support for older operating system versions, updated the codebase to support newer versions, and introduced changes to the build process. Furthermore, the user updated the metadata and recipes, suggesting a focus on maintaining and evolving the cookbook's compatibility and functionality across different PHP versions and operating systems.
phpchef-resourcechefmanaged-by-terraform
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