Scott Lowe
Sr Principal Solutions Architect at blog.scottlowe.org
Oxford, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Lowe is a senior principal solutions architect and 20+ year IT veteran who blends deep technical expertise in cloud, Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and networking with an ability to explain complex concepts to non-technical audiences. Currently at Isovalent, he has driven Kubernetes, SDN, and cloud-native initiatives across VMware, Heptio, Pulumi, and Kong, and maintains a long-running, highly regarded tech blog that shapes community understanding of AWS, Azure, KVM, Open vSwitch, Terraform, and Ansible. He’s an active practitioner of DevOps tooling—authoring learning environments that automate Consul, etcd, Docker, and other stacks—and brings hands-on experience building reproducible labs and demos. A frequent speaker, author, and educator, Scott pairs practitioner-level depth with talent for clear communication, helping teams adopt new architectures while minimizing risk. Based in Oxford, NC, he combines enterprise engineering pedigree with a curious, lifelong-learner approach evident in decades of public-facing content and open-source contributions.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
North Carolina State University
Github Skills (15)
consul10
docker10
vagrant10
etcd10
dockers10
ansible9
ubuntu9
ansible-galaxy9
aws8
terraformer8
terraform8
centos6
pulumi5
rkt5
lxd5
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
scottslowe/learning-tools
Feb 2015 - Jul 2022
A collection of tools and files for learning new technologies
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 484 commits, 236 PRs in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the repository by creating and refining environments using tools like Vagrant to support learning new technologies. Their commits focused on setting up and configuring infrastructure components, specifically related to Consul, Docker, Registrator, etcd, rkt, LXD, and cloud-init for Photon. They automated the installation, configuration, and orchestration of these tools within virtualized environments, showcasing a strong focus on DevOps practices.
vagrant-environmentsetcdnew-technologiesvagrantcoreos
scottslowe/2020-ces-iac-capi
Sep 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:13 commits, 1 push in 1 year 3 months
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