Spencer Owen
DevOps Consultant at Lava Lizard Automation Specialists
Lehi, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolSpencer Owen is a DevOps consultant with 15 years of experience designing and automating resilient infrastructure, currently based in Lehi, Utah. He specializes in infrastructure as code, config management, and containerization—bringing deep hands-on expertise in Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Docker, and CI/CD platforms like GitHub/GitLab and Artifactory. At Lava Lizard he has executed zero-downtime HashiCorp Vault upgrades across global datacenters, authored CIS Inspec profiles to harden Linux systems, and architected Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform deployments. An active open-source contributor, he has improved testing and code quality on notable community cookbooks such as sous-chefs/iis. Colleagues rely on him to turn manual ops into repeatable, auditable automation and to modernize legacy Windows/Linux environments with immutable infrastructure practices.
15 years of coding experience
The University of UtahBrigham Young University-Idaho
Spanish
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Github Skills (26)
cookbook10
artifactory10
testing10
chef-dk10
chef-client10
chef-infra10
chef-solo10
kibana9
ssl9
rubocop9
openssl9
automation9
certificate9
curl9
automations9
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
sous-chefs/iis
Feb 2015 - Sep 2016
Development repository for the iis cookbook
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:15 commits, 18 PRs, 75 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Spencer primarily focused on improving the quality and maintainability of the iis cookbook. Their contributions include adding tests, fixing Rubocop issues to enhance code quality, and modifying aspects of the code such as the application pool configurations. They also updated the Readme file and made changes to address various issues. The user demonstrated skills in testing and code quality.
cookbookiiswindows-servicec-sharpchef-resource
spuder/pi-gen
Jan 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:4 releases, 27 commits, 2 PRs in 7 months
raspbianraspberry-piraspberrypi
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