Ross Hinkley is a Developer Advocate and full-stack engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, data movement tooling, and developer enablement, currently focusing on Terraform and Go at Mastercard. He’s delivered across Azure, AWS, and Hadoop ecosystems—authoring Node.js replicators, migrating data platforms, and automating deployments—while shepherding organizational cloud design. A practical tinkerer, Ross contributes to open-source browser automation tooling (adding alerts handling, tests, and plugin support) and brings hands-on experience from .NET to modern serverless and infrastructure-as-code patterns. Based in Missouri, he blends consultancy-honed problem solving with production-grade implementation and a knack for making complex integrations reliably repeatable.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Purdue University
Contributions:239 commits, 150 PRs, 116 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Ross primarily focused on enhancing the browser automation library by implementing new features and fixing bugs. They added functionality to handle JavaScript alerts and implemented tests to verify the new functionality. Furthermore, the user introduced support for custom plugins, enabling users to extend the library's capabilities, and updated the codebase to reflect these plugin-related changes. They also addressed input clearing in forms.
Contributions:22 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 9 months
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