Justin Schuhmann
Principal Member Of Technical Staff at Salesforce
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Schuhmann is a Principal Member of Technical Staff with 13 years of experience building cloud-integrated backend systems and leading engineering teams at Salesforce. Based in Louisville and now working in the Bay Area, he combines deep Azure infrastructure expertise—demonstrated by significant contributions to Spinnaker's clouddriver provider—with practical DevOps and automation skills from cookbook and release-engineering work. A tinkerer by nature, he pursues hardware and automation projects in his spare time and mentors local developers through Code Louisville. Known for improving deployment reliability and pushing for autonomous, self-healing systems, he excels at turning complex cloud features into production-ready capabilities. His career shows a steady progression from release engineering to technical leadership, with a knack for fixing hard, systems-level bugs that others miss.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
None General Education, None General Education at Bellarmine UniversityBachelor Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Engineering and Computer Science at University of Louisville
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Github Skills (37)
ajax10
cookbook10
javascript10
jquery10
windows10
cloud-infrastructure10
microsoft-azure10
chef-client10
iis10
powershell10
chef-solo10
azure10
spinnaker10
formsubmit10
back-end-development9
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
sous-chefs/iis
Jul 2014 - Dec 2018
Development repository for the iis cookbook
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:17 releases, 1 review, 182 commits in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily contributed to the iis cookbook by fixing bugs, updating providers, and modifying the `metadata.rb` file. Their work included fixing issues related to application pools, specifically how they configure and set settings like runtime version, 32-bit app support, and pipeline mode. The user also added functionality to the :add action and introduced configuration fixes to the iis_root resource, resolving problems with the default_documents functionality and fixing various issues.
iischefchef-resourcemanaged-by-terraform
spinnaker/clouddriver
Feb 2021 - Apr 2021
read and write operations across cloud providers
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 5 commits, 7 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Justin primarily contributed to the Azure provider within the spinnaker/clouddriver repository. Their work involved implementing new features and supporting different configurations, specifically focusing on Azure server group deployments. These changes included supporting features such as `doNotRunExtensionsOnOverprovisionedVMs`, `windowsTimeZone`, termination notification profiles, enableIpForwarding, and health extensions. The commits demonstrate a deep understanding of Azure's infrastructure and how to integrate it with Spinnaker's deployment process.
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