Paul Goins
Senior Reliability Engineer at Canonical
Beaverton, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Goins is a Senior Reliability Engineer with 18 years of hands-on experience designing and operating scalable cloud and testing platforms, currently supporting managed OpenStack and Kubernetes at Canonical. He brings deep Python expertise (12+ years), extensive experience with Juju, Ceph, RabbitMQ and databases, and a strong background in automation, incident triage, and customer-facing support. Previously he architected and led development of Intel’s distributed testing framework, shifting teams to continuous delivery and owning plugin and scalability design while managing an engineering team. Comfortable across languages and systems—from low-level hardware test tools to cloud orchestration—he combines operational rigor with product-focused engineering. Based in Beaverton, Oregon, he balances deep technical ownership with pragmatic customer interaction and documentation skills.
18 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Information Systems, BS Computer Information Systems at DeVry University
English, Japanese
Github Skills (143)
python10
juju10
operator10
linux10
yaml10
golang10
kubernetes10
pure-python10
lifecycle10
devops10
alibabacloud9
declarative9
k8s9
upstream9
vcenter9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Vultaire/Vultaire.github.io
Feb 2020 - Feb 2025
Contributions:16 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years
Vultaire/wsmud
Feb 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:78 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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