Josh Padnick
Founder at Gruntwork
Encinitas, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarJosh Padnick is a founder and DevOps-focused engineer with 11 years of experience building automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure tooling from Encinitas, CA. As a co-founder of Gruntwork and prolific contributor to high-profile open-source projects like Terragrunt and Terratest, he specializes in automating AMI builds, integration tests, and AWS-focused deployment pipelines. He has a track record of turning brittle manual processes into reliable, script-driven workflows—adding features like multi-region AMI publishing, automated integration suites, and improved remote state handling. Josh also contributed to community-led initiatives such as the OpenTF manifesto site, demonstrating engagement with open-source governance as well as engineering. Comfortable across shell, Go, Terraform/OpenTofu, and testing frameworks, he blends hands-on implementation with pragmatic infrastructure design. Colleagues would note his eye for making example artifacts safe to consume and his knack for shipping reproducible, production-ready IaC.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (30)
git10
scripting10
open-source10
bash10
circleci10
terraform10
cicd10
terraformer10
automation10
packer10
script10
go10
aws10
html10
sh10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
gruntwork-io/terratest
Mar 2016 - Oct 2022
Terratest is a Go library that makes it easier to write automated tests for your infrastructure code.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Infrastructure Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Infrastructure EngineerContributions:5 releases, 1 review, 184 commits in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to the infrastructure-as-code aspects of the `terratest` repository. They developed functions to generate RSA keypairs, import and delete EC2 key pairs, and manage S3 buckets, along with supporting functionality for CIDR block generation. These changes suggest an emphasis on creating and automating infrastructure using AWS services, and providing a framework for tests. This user also modified the tests to use terratest's convenient functions.
automated-testsgoterratestdevopstesting
hashicorp/terraform-aws-vault
Mar 2017 - Oct 2018
A Terraform Module for how to run Vault on AWS using Terraform and Packer
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 29 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily focused on automating the build and deployment process for AMIs within the repository. They implemented a `publish-amis.sh` script for building, copying, and making AMIs public across regions. The user added functionality to generate and push markdown documentation containing AMI IDs. Furthermore, they added checks and made it extra clear that example AMIs are not for production use.
awspackerterraformterraform-modulevault
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