Josh Kearney
Hazel Green, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJosh Kearney is an AWS Cloud Administrator and seasoned DevOps/SRE professional with 16 years building and operating cloud-native infrastructure for companies including GitHub, Planet, Rackspace, and Humana. He brings deep OpenStack experience—having contributed to core Nova and Glance clients—paired with practical AWS operations and automation skills. Comfortable moving between hands-on backend code, systems reliability, and platform engineering, he focuses on efficiency, maintainability, and operational robustness. Based in Hazel Green, Wisconsin, Josh combines professional engineering with an amateur radio hobby that underscores his lifelong curiosity about communications and systems. Notably, his open-source contributions include meaningful feature work (flavor details, server migration, backup rotation) and cross-project cleanups that improved API tests and SQLAlchemy usage. He excels at turning complex distributed systems problems into reliable, auditable solutions.
15 years of coding experience
Network Communications, Network Communications at Southwestern Wisconsin Technical College
English
Github Skills (9)
api10
sqlalchemy10
python10
apidoc10
back-end-development10
testing10
service-design9
service-provider9
git7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/python-novaclient
Jan 2011 - Oct 2012
OpenStack Compute (Nova) Client. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:54 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to the OpenStack Compute (Nova) client, implementing and refactoring features. Key contributions include adding support for full flavor details, migrating servers, and implementing backup functionality with rotation. These changes involved modifying core client code, and interacting with APIs to manage OpenStack resources such as servers, images, and flavors.
pythonnovaopendevopenstackcompute
openstack/glance
Jan 2011 - Aug 2012
OpenStack Image Management (Glance). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Josh contributed to code quality and consistency by performing PEP8 cleanup across multiple files. They also removed unused imports, streamlining the code and improving readability. Furthermore, the user made changes to the functional tests, specifically updating the API tests to listen on 127.0.0.1 and fixing an associated bug. They also updated to use event.listen() instead of deprecated listeners kwarg in SQLAlchemy.
opendevglanceimage-managementopenstack
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