Justin Findlay
SaltStack Developer at Cloudflare, Inc.
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolJustin Findlay is a pragmatic back-end and DevOps engineer with 13 years of experience building and hardening production infrastructure and automation tooling from Seattle. He contributes actively to SaltStack projects—fixing cron, file, DNS and IPTables issues and maintaining the bootstrap installer—bringing a reliability-first mindset to large-scale configuration management. Trained as a physicist and mathematician and a former quantum cosmology PhD candidate, he pairs deep analytical rigor with practical engineering, often improving code clarity and maintainability (as seen in an XKCD passphrase generator refactor). He enjoys engaging with curious people and translating interesting ideas into robust, maintainable systems.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
AS Physics, AS Physics at Snow CollegeThe University of UtahPhysics, Physics at Utah Valley University
Github Skills (32)
package-management10
python10
scripting10
configuration-management10
linux10
bash10
script10
saltstack10
file-handling10
sh10
infrastructure-as-code10
shell10
devops10
string-format9
ubuntu9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
saltstack/salt
Oct 2014 - Jan 2022
Software to automate the management and configuration of any infrastructure or application at scale. Install Salt from the Salt package repositories here:
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:32 releases, 12 reviews, 2153 commits in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily focused on bug fixes and improvements within the SaltStack project. Their contributions included addressing issues related to cron state management, file handling, and the Gentoo service module. They also made changes to the pillar system, improving debug information and documentation related to file tree external pillars. Additionally, the user worked on supporting protocol options for the IPTables module and resolving issues with the DNS module.
pythonzeromqevent-streaminfrastructure-managementcloud-providers
saltstack/salt-bootstrap
Mar 2015 - Jun 2016
Generic Salt Bootstrap Script
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 91 commits, 98 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily focused on maintaining and improving the Salt Bootstrap script. Their contributions included minor code cleanup, as well as updates to the script's handling of package repositories and dependencies for various Linux distributions, including Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, and SUSE. They made specific changes to package installation, and added support for specific versions of Ubuntu and Debian. Furthermore, they made changes to the repository URLs and added support for new distributions.
bootstrap-scriptsaltgenericbootstrapsaltstack
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.