Spencer Mcelmurry
Engineering Manager at CircleCI
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSpencer Mcelmurry is an engineering manager based in Portland, Oregon with a decade of experience building reliable release and QA systems for cloud-native teams. Currently leading engineering at CircleCI after progressing from senior release engineer, he blends hands-on release automation with people leadership to accelerate delivery cadence. His background at Puppet and contributions to the popular voxpupuli/beaker project show deep expertise in CI/CD, test harnesses, and cross-platform compatibility improvements. Earlier roles as a release engineer include measurable impact—cutting build times and automating VM-based test environments—demonstrating a focus on operational efficiency. Spencer pairs a BS in Computer Science with practical DevOps craftsmanship, often tackling platform-specific edge cases like Windows test exclusions and Ruby versioning. Colleagues rely on him to translate messy build and install problems into repeatable, scalable processes.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, BS in Computer Science w/ Minor in Business, Bachelor’s Degree, BS in Computer Science w/ Minor in Business at Oregon State University
Github Skills (11)
ruby10
automation10
automations10
cicd10
beaker10
testing10
puppet9
puppeteer9
git7
yaml5
fest4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
voxpupuli/beaker
Oct 2016 - Jun 2019
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & QA Engineer
DevOps Engineer & QA EngineerContributions:1 release, 20 commits, 18 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Spencer primarily contributed to improving the testing and build infrastructure of the project. Their work included adding and modifying tests, especially concerning file archiving and Ruby versioning. They also addressed issues related to the build process, such as disabling tests on Windows and modifying the installation steps, showcasing a focus on CI/CD and platform compatibility. Further, they contributed by modifying test files and adding file compression and exception handling.
acceptance-testingpuppettestingacceptanceharness
smcelmurry/test_PR_status_1
Oct 2017 - Feb 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 61 pushes, 28 branches in 3 years 4 months
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