Jeff Mccune
Principal Engineer at Thomson Reuters
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Mccune is a Principal Engineer and founder with 17 years of experience building cloud-native, platform-focused infrastructure for enterprises and startups from Portland, Oregon. He blends hands-on engineering in Kubernetes, Go, Python, AWS and GCP with deep expertise in platform engineering, networking, security and deployment automation, and currently owns foundational infrastructure for Thomson Reuters' CoCounsel Tax AI. As a long-time Puppet contributor and former Puppet Labs engineer, he’s shipped core platform features, improved testing and CI across widely used modules (puppet, hiera, puppetserver) and helped modernize Terraform and cloud modules used in production. He runs a consulting firm where he led strategy, sales and operations for a four-person team, giving him practical product and business instincts beyond engineering. Known for pragmatic problem solving, Jeff often surfaces subtle UX and operational improvements—like clearer memory validation and cross-platform compatibility fixes—that reduce toil at scale.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science Engineering, BS Computer Science Engineering at The Ohio State University
English
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Github Skills (80)
vsphere10
package-management10
testing10
rspec10
test-framework10
bash10
acceptance-testing10
terraform10
ruby10
gcp10
javas10
automation10
backend10
integration-testing10
puppet10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
puppetlabs/puppetlabs-stdlib
May 2011 - Dec 2013
Puppet Labs Standard Library module
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:363 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily contributed to adding and improving functions within the standard library for Puppet. Their work focused on enhancing the module's capabilities by adding functions like `validate_re`, `validate_bool`, `validate_hash`, `getvar`, `loadyaml`, `validate_array`, `validate_string`, `merge`, and `uriescape`. Additionally, the user was also responsible for code refactoring by changing the file_line resource.
puppetsupported
voxpupuli/beaker
Jul 2010 - May 2012
Puppet Acceptance Testing Harness
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:82 commits, 5 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily contributed to the acceptance testing framework for the Puppet Acceptance Testing Harness. Their work involved writing and modifying shell scripts (bash) to create integration and acceptance tests. These tests validated various Puppet functionalities, including resource management, conditional logic, and defined types. The user also refactored and cleaned up existing test scripts and contributed to the test infrastructure itself.
acceptance-testingpuppet
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