Pam Selle
Principal Engineer at The AHA Company (formerly AHA Labs)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPam Selle is a Principal Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience building resilient, user-focused infrastructure and developer tooling, currently working at the intersection of digital assets and Stellar-based DeFi. She has a strong track record as an individual contributor and leader—maintaining Terraform Core, improving registry robustness, and shipping key features that scale to millions of downloads per week. Comfortable across the stack, Pam has shipped backend and DevOps improvements at HashiCorp, front-end polish on open-source projects, and product features in fast-moving startups using React/Node on AWS. She pairs technical execution with community leadership—organizing one of Philadelphia’s largest JavaScript user groups, teaching programming to diverse audiences, and speaking at conferences. Notably, she drove automation of complex release processes and introduced sensitive-variables to Terraform to reduce secret exposure, reflecting a pragmatic focus on security and developer experience. Based in Philadelphia, she also brings an unexpected creative side as a former dance instructor and choreographer, blending discipline and communication into her engineering practice.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at DePauw University
French
Github Skills (25)
opentofu10
css10
terraform10
terraformer10
go10
front-end-development10
html10
infrastructure-as-code10
error-handling10
cloud-manager9
terraform-provider9
template-engine9
cloud-infrastructure9
templater9
cloud-services9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/terraform
Mar 2019 - Mar 2021
Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 releases, 201 reviews, 250 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Pam focused on improving the Terraform registry functionality, addressing issues related to registry unreachability and enhancing error messaging for a better user experience. They implemented a new error specifically for when the registry service is unreachable, improving the user's ability to troubleshoot network issues. Furthermore, the user implemented new functionality relating to modules, ensuring the correct version is returned when using build metadata. These changes involved modifications to the core Terraform codebase.
versionedconfiguration-filescloud-managementawscloud
openhatch/oh-mainline
Mar 2012 - Sep 2012
The code that runs openhatch.org
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Pam primarily focused on front-end development, specifically modifying CSS and HTML templates within the project. They removed unused components like "Facebox" and made updates to the layout, as evidenced by changes to base templates and CSS files. Further, they fixed display issues within the "Windows missions" and added a clearfix class to improve the display of the portfolio.
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