Megan Marsh
Senior Software Engineer - Productivity Infrastructure Tools at Netflix
Long Beach, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMegan Marsh is a senior software engineer with 13 years of experience, currently leading productivity infrastructure tooling at Netflix and previously serving as the engineering lead for HashiCorp’s widely used open-source project Packer. She blends deep systems and DevOps expertise—particularly in Go, Python, virtualization, and cloud APIs—with a strong focus on user experience, maintainable code, and community-driven development. At HashiCorp she modernized release pipelines, modularized plugin architecture, revived integration tests, and dramatically reduced community PR backlog while shipping a new configuration language. Her work on Packer includes user-facing UX improvements (like a variables listing command) and careful removal of deprecated functionality, reflecting attention to both users and long-term code health. Based in Long Beach, CA, she’s equally comfortable chasing byte-level race conditions or automating multi-cloud image builds, and often mentors peers and contributors to scale engineering impact.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Kinesiology, Bachelor of Science, Kinesiology at University of Southern CaliforniaNovato HighMath, Physics, Engineering, Math, Physics, Engineering at Santa Monica College
English, French
Github Skills (6)
go10
cicd9
template-engine9
build-tools9
automated-tests8
api-design6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/packer
May 2017 - Oct 2021
Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 releases, 392 reviews, 2930 commits in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Megan's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Packer tool. They implemented a new command-line option ("variables") for listing variables from the console, improving its user experience. Additionally, the user added features to improve user-facing messaging in a few different areas, which also included sanitizing and formatting the output for the machine-readable UI. They were also actively involved in removing deprecated functionality, such as spot_price_auto_product, and ensuring proper code organization.
vagrantplatformslinuxpackerdocker
SwampDragons/cool_new_features_demos
Feb 2019 - Aug 2020
demo files used in my HashiTalk about newish Packer features
Contributions:15 commits, 5 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 5 months
demo-filespacker
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