Jeff Groom
Solutions Architect at Ciena
Durango, Colorado, United States
Summary
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RockstarJeff Groom is a Solutions Architect with 11+ years focused on telecommunications, combining deep field experience at Ciena with earlier systems and network engineering roles at Cisco, Nortel, and Windstream. He blends technical leadership in SDN and Carrier Ethernet with customer-facing sales engineering and business development, helping win major accounts and deliver fast-turn deployments. Comfortable across the stack, Jeff contributes to open-source projects like curlconverter and strest, where he improved generator templating, YAML test generation, and added Ansible support—showing a practical devops and test-automation bent. Based in Durango, Colorado, he pairs hands-on engineering with presentation and management skills, often translating complex requirements into actionable service scopes. His background includes military communications experience with the 82nd Airborne, an uncommon foundation that informs his disciplined approach to network operations and architecture.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (11)
rest-api10
javascript10
nunjucks10
curl10
json-schema10
yaml10
ansible9
testing9
go9
ansible-galaxy9
tree-sitter4
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
eykrehbein/strest
Oct 2018 - Jun 2019
⚡️ CI-ready tests for REST APIs configured in YAML
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 114 commits, 35 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Jeff's commits primarily involve enhancing the functionality and robustness of the REST API testing tool. They focused on improving the configuration schema, adding features like allowing insecure certificates, retries, and JSON path validation, and handling scenarios like conditional request execution. Furthermore, the user refactored the codebase by moving features to a base level. This involved updating the testing logic and the configuration schema to accommodate the new features and improvements.
restrest-apiyamlnodejscli
curlconverter/curlconverter
Nov 2018 - Mar 2021
Transpile curl commands into Python, JavaScript and 27 other languages
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 16 commits, 10 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jeff focused on enhancing the `curlconverter` project, primarily by implementing and refactoring the `strest` generator. They introduced a templating engine (Nunjucks) for creating `strest` configurations, improved the generation of `strest` YAML files, and updated the `strest` generator to version 2.0. Additionally, they added support for Ansible and made updates to improve the overall project.
curljavascriptpythontree-sitter
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