Robb Kidd
Senior Software Engineer at Honeycomb.io
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolRobb Kidd is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience focused on backend, DevOps, and build automation, currently at Honeycomb.io in Virginia. He has deep practical experience modernizing build and deployment pipelines, packaging and habitat plans, and hardening release tooling across high-profile open-source projects like Chef and Habitat. Robb’s contributions span OAuth/authorization work in Chef Server, cross-platform Windows support for Habitat builds, and improving test and automation workflows in Test Kitchen—demonstrating a blend of systems thinking and pragmatic engineering. He pairs hands-on Ruby/Rails and infrastructure work with documentation and developer experience improvements, helping teams ship secure, repeatable artifacts. An unconventional background in Religious Studies hints at a broader analytical perspective that informs his careful, methodical approach to complex systems.
14 years of coding experience
Religious Studies, Terrorism & Fundamentalism, Ancient Israelite Religion, Religious Studies, Terrorism & Fundamentalism, Ancient Israelite Religion at George Mason University
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Github Skills (76)
test-kitchen10
postgresql10
package-management10
testing10
ruby10
seeding10
chef-client10
automation10
bundler10
build-automation10
activerecord10
software-packaging10
doorkeeper10
ruby-on-rails10
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Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
habitat-sh/core-plans
Oct 2016 - Oct 2019
Core Habitat Plan definitions
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:25 commits, 24 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Robb primarily contributed to the core plans definitions for the Habitat package manager, making updates to plans and scaffolding. They updated various plans for Java, Ruby, and Node.js applications, improving their functionality and incorporating bug fixes. Furthermore, they automated steps to provide a default database configuration for asset compilation in Ruby and improved git detection in both Ruby and Node.js plans.
planhabitatpackage-managerdefinitionspackages
chef/omnibus-software
Nov 2015 - Dec 2019
Open Source Software for use in Omnibus built packages
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:34 commits, 29 PRs, 16 pushes in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Robb primarily focused on managing and updating software packages for the Omnibus build system. Their contributions included adding new versions of software dependencies like PostgreSQL, OpenSSL, Ruby, Nginx, and Git. They also addressed security vulnerabilities by upgrading to patched versions, demonstrating a strong focus on keeping the build environment secure and up-to-date.
omnibusopen-source-software
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