Lance Albertson
Director at Oregon State University Open Source Lab
Corvallis, Oregon, United States
Summary
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RockstarLance Albertson is an experienced technology leader and Director with 21 years in DevOps, systems automation, and open source infrastructure, currently leading the Oregon State University Open Source Lab. He manages a million-dollar operating budget and a small technical staff while mentoring and coordinating 18+ students to host major projects for organizations like the Apache Software Foundation and the Linux Foundation. Hands-on in CI/CD, configuration management, and test automation, Lance has contributed significant fixes and test improvements across high-profile Chef and Sous-Chefs repositories (including chef/chef and inspec/inspec). His work spans build stability, cross-platform compatibility, idempotency, and migrating tests to InSpec—skills that keep large-scale open source services reliable. Known for pragmatic release and testing practices, he blends operational leadership with deep technical contributions that often resolve platform-specific edge cases. Based in Corvallis, Oregon, he brings a rare mix of stewardship for community-run infrastructure and day-to-day engineering craftsmanship.
21 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (70)
testing10
bash10
perl10
terraform10
automake10
ruby10
ubuntu10
javas10
chef-client10
automation10
automation-testing10
build-automation10
integration-testing10
inspec10
linux10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
sous-chefs/apache2
May 2015 - Nov 2021
Development repository for the apache2 cookbook
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:30 reviews, 40 commits, 36 PRs in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Lance primarily focused on enhancing and maintaining the CI/CD pipeline for the apache2 cookbook. They added CentOS 8 to the CI pipeline, updated configuration files to be compatible with CentOS 8, and made other updates to improve compatibility and stability across different operating systems. Furthermore, they refactored code to accommodate changes in dependencies and configurations, demonstrating an understanding of build systems and release processes. They also made release updates and added new tests for different scenarios within the apache2 cookbook.
cookbookapache2chef-resourcemanaged-by-terraformchef
sous-chefs/percona
Jul 2020 - Aug 2022
Development repository for the percona cookbook
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Database Engineer / Database Administrator
DevOps Engineer & Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:22 reviews, 67 commits, 21 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Lance primarily contributed to the Percona cookbook by addressing infrastructure and configuration issues. They fixed issues related to database setup, idempotency, and systemd unit configurations. Furthermore, the user worked on supporting different Percona versions and platforms, with code changes focused on enhancing compatibility and testing. They also updated the APT GPG key and removed support for some operating systems.
cookbookmysqlperconachef-resourcemysql-database
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