Larry Shatzer
Staff Software Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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SeniorLarry Shatzer is a Staff Software Engineer with 21 years of experience specializing in build, CI/CD, and DevOps tooling across Java and Python ecosystems. Based in Salt Lake City, he has led large-scale migrations—moving codebases from CVS/VSS to Subversion and then to Git, and consolidating CI systems into Jenkins while standardizing artifact management with Sonatype Nexus. He maintains and evolves developer tooling and infrastructure (Jira, Confluence, SonarQube, Bamboo, FishEye) to improve release velocity and code quality at Myriad Genetics. An active open-source committer and Jenkins plugin author, he contributes practical tooling like the Favorite Plugin and Maven Deployment Linker that reflect hands-on expertise in developer workflows. Known for pragmatic automation, he pairs deep configuration-management experience with continuous delivery best practices to reduce friction for engineering teams. Colleagues rely on him for complex migrations and durable, low-drama infrastructure improvements that quietly keep engineering productive.
21 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (21)
continuous-integration10
continuous-delivery10
java10
javas10
jenkins10
jenkins-ci10
gruntjs9
alias9
linux9
bash9
macos9
groovy8
devops8
maven6
eclipse6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
jenkinsci/dependency-queue-plugin
May 2012 - Dec 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 3 years 7 months
larrys/opentelemetry-collector
Nov 2022 - Apr 2025
OpenTelemetry Collector
Contributions:54 pushes in 2 years 5 months
opentelemetry-collectortracingobservabilityoteldistributed-tracing
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