Perry Randall
Production Engineer at Meta
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarPerry Randall is a Production Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable deployment and developer-infrastructure systems, currently working at Meta after roles at Aptos, Instagram, and Facebook. He specializes in release engineering and DevOps, having improved CI/CD, testing, and chaos test suites for high-profile projects including the Aptos layer-1 blockchain. A Debian enthusiast and Python power-user, he blends hands-on sysadmin roots with production-grade automation at scale. Based in Palo Alto, he brings a track record of making releases safer and more reliable for millions of users while quietly optimizing developer workflows. Outside work he stays active with badminton, cycling, and hiking, which fuels his pragmatic, detail-oriented approach.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (12)
kubernetes10
github-ci10
docker10
githubaction-workflow10
ci-cd-pipeline10
dockers10
kubernetes-pods10
test-automation10
blockchain9
aptos9
bash8
python8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
aptos-labs/aptos-core
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Aptos is a layer 1 blockchain built to support the widespread use of blockchain through better technology and user experience.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Release Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Release EngineerContributions:16 releases, 876 reviews, 106 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Perry's commits primarily focused on improving the testing and release processes for the Aptos core blockchain. They addressed issues related to the forge testing framework, including adding network loss tests, creating a chaos test suite, and enhancing error messages. The user also implemented a new python-based forge wrapper and made improvements to the continuous integration and deployment pipeline, including the setup of automated jobs for testing. These changes directly contributed to improving the reliability and efficiency of the project's release process and test coverage.
blockchain-platformblockchainuser-experienceblockchain-networksmart-contracts
perryjrandall/aptos-core
Jun 2022 - Feb 2025
A layer 1 for everyone!
Contributions:6 PRs, 8 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 8 months
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