Justin Phelps
Senior DevOps Engineer at Netflix
Lafayette, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Phelps is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 13 years of experience building reliable, automated infrastructure and developer tooling from startups to Netflix. At Netflix he designed Windows AMI baking tooling, rebuilt device remediation and serial number APIs in Go, and operated a highly available multi-master SaltStack deployment used globally — work featured on the Netflix Tech Blog. He specializes in automation, testing, and improving broken processes using tools like Packer, Docker, Go, Chocolatey, Ansible and SaltStack, and contributes to the upstream salt project (notably enhancing Chocolatey package source management with tests and style-refactors). Based in Lafayette, Colorado, Justin combines hands-on systems engineering with a knack for practical, cross-functional collaboration and educating teams to sustainably adopt better practices.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Tallahassee Community CollegeHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Starr's Mill High School
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Github Skills (9)
chocolatey10
configuration-management10
python10
testing9
infrastructure-as-code8
powershell6
windows6
driver6
ipfw6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
saltstack/salt
Aug 2014 - Oct 2022
Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 27 comments in 8 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily contributed to enhancing the functionality of the `chocolatey` module within the `saltstack/salt` repository, specifically focused on adding features related to Chocolatey package source management. They implemented the ability to specify source priority and reordered arguments for the `source_present` function. Furthermore, the user refactored code to adhere to the black code style and added unit tests for the new features.
pythonzeromqevent-streaminfrastructure-managementcloud-providers
rackspace-orchestration-templates/magento-single
Jan 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:6 PRs, 6 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 7 months
chef-sololeveragingheatmagento2docker
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