Tanner Ferguson is a Principal DevOps Engineer based in Denver with 12 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native infrastructure for web platforms and distributed ledger projects. He has progressed from web and Drupal development into leading DevOps at Hedera/Hashgraph, combining deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Docker, Go, and deployment automation with strategic architecture and platform reliability. Tanner contributed to the popular open-source DDEV project—adding Drupal 8 support and improving CLI UX and archive handling—demonstrating a knack for developer-focused tooling and cross-platform solutions. He’s delivered production-grade hosting and custom Kubernetes controllers for hundreds of sites and now applies that operational rigor to blockchain-scale systems. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex deployment requirements into repeatable pipelines and resilient platforms, with a practical emphasis on developer experience that’s not always obvious from senior titles alone.
Docker-based local PHP+Node.js web development environments
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:1 release, 72 commits, 106 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Tanner primarily contributed to the development of the "ddev/ddev" repository, a Docker-based web development environment. Their work involved adding support for new application types, specifically Drupal 8, and improving the functionality of the legacy plugin, which manages the import and extraction of resources for various CMS platforms. They also enhanced the user interface by including the URL of the deployed application in the CLI output. Furthermore, the user addressed archive permission issues and cleaned up extraction processes.
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Tanner Ferguson - Principal DevOps Engineer at Hashgraph