Jeff Uphoff
Principal Systems Engineer at Self-employed
Roanoke, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Uphoff is a Principal Systems Engineer with over 15 years designing and delivering Linux-based operating systems, cloud platforms, and DevOps toolchains for companies from startups to AWS and Red Hat. He currently leads core user-space engineering for Rocky Linux and CentOS at CIQ and previously helped develop Amazon Linux 2023 and vulnerability management at AWS. Known for managing geographically distributed teams and customer-site professional services, he combines hands-on OS packaging, release engineering, and security hardening with process and automation leadership. His open-source pedigree includes co-founding the Linux Kernel Organization (kernel.org) and long experience across prominent infrastructure companies, reflecting deep platform and community expertise. Outside engineering he applies disciplined decision-making as a certified umpire and former commercial pilot, bringing operational rigor and calm under pressure to complex delivery environments. Based in Roanoke, VA, he pairs an MBA with decades of systems work to translate technical requirements into secure, auditable production releases.
15 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Physics Astronomy, Physics Astronomy at Virginia TechPhysics Russian, Physics Russian at United States Naval AcademyUnited States Naval Academy Preparatory School (NAPS)Masters Business Administration (with honors), Masters Business Administration (with honors) at University of Virginia Darden School of Business
Github Skills (10)
commons10
openshift10
cloud-computing10
documentation10
e2e9
cnf9
kubernetes9
k8s8
kustomize6
golang5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
juphoff/issniff
Oct 2010 - Nov 2021
Contributions:39 commits, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 11 years 2 months
juphoff/go-mode.el
Aug 2020 - Feb 2024
Emacs mode for the Go programming language
Contributions:7 pushes in 3 years 6 months
golangemacsemacs-modeprogramming-language
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