Joel Vasallo
Director, Platform Engineering
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Vasallo is a Director of Platform Engineering with 13 years of experience building SRE, delivery, and security-focused platforms for cloud-native and traditional UNIX environments. Based in Chicago, he currently leads multi-discipline teams at The Aspen Group to deliver a multi-region, active-active Kubernetes platform and a paved-road developer experience. A hands-on leader and former DevOps/tooling engineer, he combines cloud networking, routing, and production automation expertise across AWS and GCP with practical experience in Terraform, Ansible, Packer, and CI/CD systems. He is an active open-source contributor—most notably improving Packer’s shell-local runtime OS handling—and organizes the Google Developer Group in Chicago, bringing community-driven practices into enterprise engineering. Joel’s background blends deep operational judgment with a penchant for clear developer workflows and measurable platform reliability.
13 years of coding experience
High School, High School at Saint Patrick High SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Information Technology, Graduate, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology, Graduate at DePaul University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
configuration-management10
go10
automations8
automation8
google-compute-engine6
api6
google-cloud-platform6
python6
rest6
regex6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/packer
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 10 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Joel primarily contributed to the `shell-local` functionality within the Packer tool. Their work focused on adding the ability to specify runtime operating systems for script execution. This involved modifying the configuration, adding validation for operating system types, and refactoring the code to improve clarity and control over the execution environment. The user also improved error messaging related to OS configuration.
packer
jvasallo/homebrew-core
Nov 2017 - Oct 2022
Contributions:3 pushes in 4 years 11 months
macosformulaepackage-managermissing
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