Jos Backus
Staff Engineer I at Omnissa
United States
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Top SchoolJos Backus is a Staff Engineer with 17+ years building and automating large-scale infrastructure, currently focused on DevOps and platform engineering at Omnissa after long tenures at VMware Workspace ONE and MobileIron. He brings deep hands-on expertise in AWS, CI/CD, UNIX systems, configuration management and deployment automation, and is comfortable shipping tooling in Ruby, C, Go and Rust. At eBay and Nimble he automated critical analytics and storage systems, and his open-source contributions to the Chef Infra project show attention to reliability and deployment ergonomics (including cookbook sync controls and tag management fixes). He prefers autonomy and correctness, avoids on-call/relocation constraints, and gravitates to pragmatic, low-level problem solving across networking, security and storage. Colleagues rely on him to stabilize complex production environments while delivering clean, well-documented changes that reduce operational friction.
17 years of coding experience
36 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (10)
chef-client10
automation10
chef-solo10
automations10
ruby10
devops9
cgm9
deploying8
rspec8
chef-infra6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
chef/chef
Oct 2015 - Feb 2016
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:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 17 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jos primarily focused on improving the Chef Infra codebase related to the management of tags within the system. They refactored code to ensure proper tag initialization and access, enhancing code reliability and preventing potential errors. In addition, the user added the functionality for skipping cookbook synchronization within the chef-client and improved the related documentation. Their work indicates a focus on both the application's core logic and deployment infrastructure.
devopsdeploymentansibleinfrastructureinfra
josb/symbolicator
Apr 2021 - Aug 2023
Native Symbolication as a Service
Contributions:2 PRs, 106 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years 3 months
as-a-servicejavasymbolication
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