Naomi Reeves
Production Engineer at Facebook
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNaomi Reeves is a Production Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building human-centered automation and developer tooling to make application deployment and operations smoother and more reliable. At Facebook she contributes to high-impact, fleet-scale DevOps work—improving Chef cookbooks and system configuration logic used across client platforms—and has a track record of modernizing automation to align with evolving platforms like Chef 14+. Previously at Target she led solutions that cut content publishing time and automated BI access, demonstrating a knack for measurable operational improvements. Naomi pairs technical depth in backend/devops with strong cross-team empathy, routinely translating user needs into pragmatic tooling and rollout strategies. She’s an evangelist for new patterns and incremental rollout, and quietly surfaces reliability wins by reducing manual toil for large engineering teams.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Minneapolis CollegeUniversity of St. Thomas
Github Skills (16)
system-administration10
configuration-management10
chef-client10
systemd10
automation10
chef-solo10
automations10
ruby10
scripting9
shell9
yum9
script9
sh9
networking8
devops8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/chef-cookbooks
Apr 2017 - Mar 2022
Open source chef cookbooks.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 69 commits, 1 PR in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Naomi primarily focused on the automation and deployment aspects of the `chef-cookbooks` repository. They implemented an API to manage and configure anacrontab environment settings, rolling out the changes incrementally across the fleet. Furthermore, the user refactored code to comply with modern Chef practices and deprecated items. This involved modifying system configurations, creating systemd configurations, and managing services.
chef-resourcemanaged-by-terraformchefcookbooks
facebook/IT-CPE
Jul 2019 - Jun 2021
Meta's Client Platform Engineering tools. Some of the tools we have written to help manage our fleet of client systems.
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Naomi focused on improving the codebase related to system configuration and operation within a Chef environment. They added a method to determine the execution context (solo or client) for conditional behavior and improved filesystem-related methods. Furthermore, the user updated the rpm_version method to correctly handle version retrieval in Chef 14+, including adapting to changes in the yum and dnf package query outputs. They added a method to determine if a group exists using a native ruby library.
metaengineeringfleetplatform-engineeringtools-engineering
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