Robert Detjens
Cloud Operations Engineer
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Detjens is a Cloud Operations Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining production infrastructure, now at The Linux Foundation in Portland. He brings strong DevOps and backend skills from roles at OneCommons and the Oregon State University Open Source Lab, with practical expertise in configuration management and Linux web stacks. An active open-source contributor, Robert has improved widely used cookbooks like sous-chefs/apache2 and nagios—refactoring code, adding PHP integration, and tightening templates and tests to make deployments more reliable. He combines a BASc in Computer Science with a knack for turning ad-hoc scripts into reusable helper modules, helping teams move from brittle configurations to testable, maintainable automation.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Science at Oregon State University
Github Skills (18)
cookbook10
apache10
chef-client10
php10
chef-solo10
nginx10
automations8
automation8
automation-testing8
ruby8
test-automation7
githubaction-workflow5
github-ci5
yaml4
terraformer3
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
sous-chefs/apache2
Jun 2020 - Feb 2022
Development repository for the apache2 cookbook
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 33 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Robert contributed to the `apache2` cookbook by implementing and modifying resources for the Apache web server. Their contributions included creating a module for PHP integration, modifying the build configuration for Apache, and adding integration tests. The user also refactored the code to use helper methods and addressed code style issues.
cookbookapache2chef-resourcemanaged-by-terraformchef
sous-chefs/nagios
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
Development repository for the nagios cookbook
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 10 commits in 14 days
Contributions summary:Robert primarily focused on improving the `nagios` cookbook by updating dependencies, and configurations. They made changes to the Apache and Nginx configurations, adding and deleting files. These updates included moving code to helper functions and fixing template syntax errors.
cookbookvagrantnagioschef-resourcemanaged-by-terraform
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