Joseph Holsten
Backend Engineer at Copper Grove Infrastructure
Burlington, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJoseph Holsten is a backend engineer with 18 years of experience building and operating large-scale cloud and infrastructure systems, currently focused on defense-tech at Copper Grove Infrastructure. He combines hands-on Go and Ruby development with deep DevOps expertise—shipping SDKs, Terraform providers, and observability platforms to make distributed systems reliable and maintainable. At Oracle he helped launch OCI’s Go SDK and Terraform integrations used by major AI customers, and at Guardrail he led production-grade LLM governance, observability, and PII-safe gateways for regulated industries. An active open-source contributor, he’s worked on high-profile projects like HashiCorp Terraform and the fog Ruby library, improving provider integrations and core SDK behavior. Known for reducing operational toil—automating incident response and enabling in-place updates—he prefers making things beautiful, simple, and awesome so people don’t hate computers. Based in Burlington, WA, he also founded the sous-chefs community, reflecting a pragmatic, journeyman approach to tooling and teamwork.
18 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Oklahoma State University
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Github Skills (40)
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Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
oracle/terraform-provider-oci
Mar 2017 - Aug 2017
Terraform Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provider
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 16 PRs, 71 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Joseph primarily focused on updating and maintaining the baremetal-sdk for the Terraform OCI provider. Their contributions involved modifying SDK-related files, specifically updating the baremetal-sdk-go library. These changes included adding support for new features related to volume attachments, and certificates, which implies working with the core functionalities of the OCI provider. The user's work directly impacted the integration of new functionalities in the provider.
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hashicorp/terraform
Nov 2014 - Aug 2017
Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.
Role in this project:Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:18 commits, 43 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Joseph contributed to the infrastructure-as-code aspects of the Terraform project, primarily focusing on integrating and improving various provider configurations, specifically for the UltraDNS and Alicloud providers. They addressed configuration issues and implemented enhancements, including the addition and modification of resources like `ultradns_dirpool`, fixing idempotency issues, and updating threshold values. Additionally, the user refactored code to simplify validators within the alicloud provider, demonstrating a focus on both functionality and code maintainability.
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