Penelope Gale
Senior Software Engineer at Rula
Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolPenelope Gale is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud and DevOps tooling, currently based in Massachusetts and working at Rula. She brings deep expertise in Python, Go, OpenStack and Juju, having progressed through multiple engineering and management roles at Canonical and CloudZero. Penelope has a track record of productionizing distributed systems and automation—her open-source contributions include a Juju charm and Puppet improvements for Apache Bigtop’s Zookeeper integration, improving deployability and network configuration. Comfortable leading projects and shipping infrastructure-grade software, she pairs hands-on coding with operational insight. An unconventional background in cinema-television production hints at strong storytelling and product intuition when shaping developer-facing UX and documentation.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Cinema-Television Production, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Cinema-Television Production at University of Southern California
Github Skills (8)
big-data10
puppeteer10
juju10
puppet10
dockers9
docker9
javas8
java8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
apache/bigtop
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
Bigtop is an Apache Foundation project for Infrastructure Engineers and Data Scientists looking for comprehensive packaging, testing, and configuration of the leading open source big data components.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 8 PRs, 17 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Penelope's commits primarily focused on integrating and configuring Apache Zookeeper within the Bigtop ecosystem. They implemented a Zookeeper charm using Juju for deployment and management, adding reactive handlers and rolling restart capabilities. Additionally, the user modified Puppet manifests for Zookeeper to address peer ID configuration and added features like binding to a specific network interface for client connections. These changes streamline deployment and enhance network configuration.
javaapachebig-databigtop
pengale/charm-rolling-ops
Feb 2022 - Sep 2022
Example charm that also holds the rolling-ops library (for now).
Contributions:20 reviews, 18 commits, 7 PRs in 6 months
opscharmrollingruby
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