Megan Wilhite
Staff IT Infrastructure Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Sandy, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMegan Wilhite is a Staff IT Infrastructure Software Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and delivering infrastructure-as-code solutions at scale. She has driven architecture, mentoring, and innovation at VMware and now NVIDIA, and served briefly at Oracle, bringing production-grade infrastructure practices into large enterprise environments. An active lead maintainer of Salt, one of the world’s largest configuration management projects, she has improved build/release processes and bootstrapping scripts—work that quietly keeps thousands of deployments reliable. Her background spans QA to senior engineering roles, complemented by an MS in Information Security and Assurance, which informs a pragmatic focus on secure, automatable operations. Based in Sandy, Utah, she blends systems-level rigor with open-source stewardship, often tackling mundane but critical problems like dependency management and install reliability that most teams overlook.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahMaster of Science (M.S.) Information Security and Assurance, Master of Science (M.S.) Information Security and Assurance at Western Governors University
Github Skills (16)
sh10
automation10
bash10
automations10
salt10
script10
saltstack10
shell10
devops10
python10
scripting10
centos9
version-control9
configuration-management9
automated-tests8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
saltstack/salt
Nov 2015 - Jan 2023
Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.
Role in this project:
DevOps & Software Engineer
DevOps & Software EngineerContributions:25 releases, 2715 reviews, 1763 commits in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Megan appears to have primarily worked on maintaining and improving the build and release process as evidenced by the commits. They made significant changes to the build environment, including addressing dependencies and updating the bootstrap script for a newer version, v2020.02.24, in the process of addressing dependencies. The user also appears to be responsible for fixing some tests.
pythonzeromqevent-streaminfrastructure-managementcloud-providers
saltstack/salt-bootstrap
Apr 2017 - Aug 2022
Generic Salt Bootstrap Script
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 8 reviews, 74 commits in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Megan primarily contributed to the `salt-bootstrap` project by adding and modifying features related to Python version management during SaltStack installation. Their commits involved adding options to install different Python versions and integrating dependencies. The user also implemented logging, improved documentation, and fixed various errors, including merge conflicts and linting issues within the bootstrapping script, ensuring the script's reliability and usability. These changes centered on improving the bootstrapping process, especially when installing Salt from git.
bootstrap-scriptsaltgenericbootstrapsaltstack
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