John Naef
Senior DevOps Engineer at Bugcrowd
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Summary
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SeniorJohn Naef is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure across security, gaming, and enterprise domains. Based in Las Vegas, he currently drives DevOps at Bugcrowd after architecting cloud solutions at Fidelity National Home Warranty and managing AWS Lambdas and Elasticsearch clusters at UNIFI Labs. A pragmatic tinkerer who admits to "breaking things," he contributes to high-profile open-source projects like the HashiCorp Terraform AWS provider—adding identity store data sources and refactoring client code to improve reliability and maintainability. Comfortable spanning back-end development, cloud architecture, and operational ownership, he blends a developer's mindset with a systems-first approach to deliver resilient, auditable infrastructure.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
English
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Github Skills (16)
terraformer10
go10
aws10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
apidoc9
api9
aws-lambda6
windows6
amazon-dynamodb6
nodejs6
amazon-web-services6
base646
warnings6
react6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
The AWS Provider enables Terraform to manage AWS resources.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 1 commit, 6 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:John's contributions focused on enhancing the AWS provider for Terraform. They added a data source for `aws_identitystore_groups`, incorporating necessary context and validation. The user refactored existing code to include a `ctx` on `IdentityStoreClient` and replaced `regexache` with a more appropriate library, enhancing functionality and maintainability. They also added copyright headers to multiple files, indicating a focus on code quality and compliance.
awsterraformterraform-provider
liath/aws-agent
May 2017 - Nov 2021
Chrome/Firefox WebExtension for enabling AWS resource access via Sigv4
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 93 commits in 4 years 6 months
awschromefirefox-webextensionsigv4
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