Rebeccah Hunter
Senior Software Engineer - Performance & Scale at Ansible by Red Hat
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRebeccah Hunter is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in performance and scale with a decade of experience building backend systems for Ansible Automation, including contributions to the prominent open-source AWX project. She focuses on improving job and workflow handling, host data models, and validation logic, and pairs those changes with unit and functional tests to ensure reliability at scale. Based in the Raleigh-Durham area, she progressed through multiple engineering levels at Ansible by Red Hat, demonstrating hands-on expertise in production-grade distributed task engines. A Berea College alum, she brings a practical teaching and mentoring background—having served as a teaching associate and internship coordinator—which informs her collaborative approach to engineering. Unusually for a performance-focused engineer, she also has creative experience as a jewelry apprentice and tour guide, highlighting a blend of technical rigor and craftsman attention to detail.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at Berea CollegeComputer Science, Computer Science at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
American Sign Language
Github Skills (14)
ansible-galaxy10
api10
python10
apidoc10
django10
ansible10
pytest9
workflow-management9
automations8
automation8
api-design8
postgresql8
containerization7
react5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/awx
Aug 2019 - Nov 2022
AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. It is one of the upstream projects for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:186 reviews, 138 commits, 58 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Rebeccah primarily contributed to back-end development within the AWX project, specifically focusing on enhancing the handling of job-related data and workflow functionality. Their work involved modifying core models, adding new properties for host data, and implementing checks related to workflow convergence logic. Furthermore, the user's contributions included implementing unit and functional tests to validate the new schedule functionality, validating containerized instance groups from being edited in the API.
ansibleansible-automation-platformredhatrestrest-api
rebeccahhh/awx
Aug 2019 - Dec 2022
AWX Project
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 406 pushes in 3 years 4 months
pythonawx
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