Luke Short
VP Of Engineering, Linux at PLAYTRON
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Short is a VP of Linux Engineering with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, automated infrastructure and open source platforms from the ground up. As Playtron’s first hire he created PlaytronOS and now leads R&D to connect developer communities and bring novel gaming experiences to market. He combines deep hands-on skills in Ansible, Python, OpenStack and Kubernetes with customer-facing architecture and sales engineering experience from roles at Red Hat and VMware. An active open source contributor, he has improved documentation and platform compatibility for flagship projects like Ansible and champions reproducible, automated workflows. Based in Boulder, Colorado, he pairs practical systems engineering with content creation—authoring technical Chrome OS coverage—to make complex Linux topics accessible to broader audiences.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (A.S.) Network Engineering Technology Cisco Routing and Switching, Associate of Science (A.S.) Network Engineering Technology Cisco Routing and Switching at Valencia College
Github Skills (10)
ansible-galaxy10
python10
documentation10
ansible10
automation-testing9
automation9
automations9
cloud-infrastructure8
infrastructure8
ovirt8
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible
Nov 2016 - Oct 2018
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 8 PRs, 22 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Luke's commits primarily involve improving Ansible's documentation and updating its configuration for various systems. They addressed issues related to Python 3 environment setup, correcting installation instructions for different platforms like Gentoo. Furthermore, they updated the required Python SDK version and variable documentation for modules related to cloud providers such as oVirt. The user also updated the minimum Ansible version requirements.
everythingpythonit-automationdevopsdeployment
LukeShortCloud/card_games_converter
Aug 2018 - Nov 2020
A Python program for making printable sheets of cards.
Contributions:96 commits, 8 PRs, 41 pushes in 2 years 3 months
pythonpython3printablepacksheets
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