Jenna Goldstrich
Senior Software Engineer at IBM
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJenna Goldstrich is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with seven years of experience building cloud infrastructure tooling, currently contributing to Terraform Enterprise at HashiCorp/IBM. She was the lead maintainer of the Packer Azure plugin, shipping a modern v2.0.0 with OIDC, Windows SSH, custom disk encryption, and significant performance wins that cut acceptance test times from an hour to 15 minutes. Jenna has strong cross-company partnership experience, collaborating with Azure VM Image Builder teams and helping take HCP Packer through GA by creating robust acceptance test suites and incident response processes. Her open-source and DevOps contributions include improving Packer’s build system and integrating HCP SBOM uploads, demonstrating attention to supply-chain and automation details. Passionate about the developer community, software testing, retro gaming, and Linux, she combines pragmatic engineering with a knack for making complex tooling more reliable and maintainable.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Arlington
Github Skills (7)
go10
build-automation10
cicd10
dockers9
testing9
plugin-development9
docker9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/packer
Dec 2021 - Oct 2022
Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:112 reviews, 38 commits, 36 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Jenna primarily focused on improving the build process and integrating the HCP SBOM upload feature. They modified build scripts, updated dependencies, and refactored code related to plugin discovery and checksum validation. The user also updated the test environment and integrated the SBOM upload functionality with the HCP registry, ensuring correct SBOM format usage and data upload.
vagrantplatformslinuxpackerdocker
JenGoldstrich/tmux-cmus-status
Sep 2020 - Nov 2021
Contributions:18 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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