Joel Handwell
Owner, Author at github.com/haapp
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJoel Handwell is a DevOps-focused engineer and owner/author of the Haapp GitHub organization with 12 years of experience automating testing, development, and infrastructure orchestration using Chef, Serverspec, Chefspec, and Vagrant. Based in New York, he writes and reviews Chef cookbooks, contributes meaningful test coverage and refactors in high-profile projects like chef/chef, and hardens community cookbooks such as sous-chefs/apache2 by adding parameterization and robust testing. He mentors developers and sysadmins through the transition to DevOps practices and occasionally implements Java GWT front-ends, bringing rare full-stack empathy to infrastructure work. Practical, self-taught, and detail-oriented, he emphasizes maintainability and testability in every contribution.
12 years of coding experience
Self taught
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
testing10
configuration-management10
chefspec10
ruby10
chef-client10
chef-solo10
serverspec10
terraform9
terraformer9
automations8
automation8
cgm7
eclipse6
neo4j6
checkstyle6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
sous-chefs/apache2
Feb 2015 - Jun 2016
Development repository for the apache2 cookbook
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Joel primarily contributed to improving the testing and configuration aspects of the apache2 cookbook. Their work included adding both serverspec and chefspec tests, and enhancing the apache2 configuration by adding LogLevel options, and allowing for the configuration of access file names. Furthermore, they parameterized configuration items. Their contributions demonstrate a focus on ensuring the robustness and maintainability of the cookbook's functionality.
cookbookapache2chef-resourcemanaged-by-terraformchef
chef/chef
Aug 2015 - Sep 2015
Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Joel's contributions primarily focused on improving the quality and reliability of the Chef Infra project through the implementation of unit tests. The commits involve adding new unit tests to verify the functionality of the `elapsed_time` and `pretty_elapsed_time` methods within the Chef::Formatters::Doc class. Furthermore, the user refactored test code to reduce duplicated instantiation and removed a dependency, demonstrating a focus on test efficiency and maintainability.
devopsdeploymentansibleinfrastructureinfra
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