Michael Maeng
Senior DevOps Engineer at NVIDIA
Emerson, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Maeng is a Senior DevOps engineer with deep cloud and SRE expertise, currently driving infrastructure and reliability work at NVIDIA after leading DevOps initiatives at Capital One and AWS. He has a proven track record modernizing developer workflows—building OPA-based policy engines, standardizing coding best-practice platforms, and migrating mission-critical applications to reduce maintenance overhead by orders of magnitude. At AWS he revamped CloudFormation Registry tooling and contributed bug fixes and contract-test improvements to the popular cloudformation-cli project, blending infrastructure-as-code know-how with hands-on engineering. Michael pairs multiple AWS and Microsoft certifications with practical skills in Python, GitOps, and automation, and has a history of delivering cost and performance improvements for Fortune 100 customers. His background includes large-scale device fleet automation and zero-downtime migrations, and he brings a culture-first approach to cross-functional collaboration and continuous learning.
3 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Japanese Language and Literature, Japanese Language and Literature at 東京国際大学 / Tokyo International UniversityBS, Computer Science, East Asian Studies, BS, Computer Science, East Asian Studies at Rutgers University
Github Skills (8)
aws-cloudformation10
aws10
pytest10
python10
jinja29
docker8
dockers8
regex7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
aws-cloudformation/cloudformation-cli
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
The CloudFormation Provider Development Toolkit allows you to author your own resource providers and modules that can be used by CloudFormation.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:41 reviews, 11 commits, 46 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to bug fixes, particularly addressing Windows-specific issues related to temporary file handling and testing within the CloudFormation CLI project. They also improved the contract testing by adding regex validations for various data formats like dates, times, and emails. Furthermore, the user upgraded Jinja2 and MarkupSafe, and refactored the code to support a custom type configuration file for improved configuration flexibility.
resource-providersaws-cloudformationproviderprovidersaws
mmaeng/cloudformation-cli-typescript-plugin
Oct 2022 - Sep 2023
The CloudFormation Provider Development Toolkit Node.js Plugin allows you to autogenerate TypeScript code based on an input schema.
Contributions:2 PRs, 126 pushes, 24 branches in 11 months
providernode-jsautogeneratenodejsaws
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