Terry Howe
Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Durango, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolTerry Howe is a senior software engineer with 15 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, automation, and developer tooling across companies like AWS, NVIDIA, and Tesla. He blends deep backend and DevOps expertise—Go, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and Ansible—with significant open-source contributions to projects such as Helm, EKS Distro, and the Fog Ruby library. Terry is the author and maintainer of Ansible modules for HashiCorp Vault and has driven OCI registry integration for Helm, showing a knack for making complex distributed systems more usable and automatable. Based in Durango, Colorado, he pairs systems-level thinking with pragmatic tooling work, and even took a purposeful gap year to restore a 1949 Willys while continuing open-source development. Colleagues rely on him to translate cloud-native research into production-ready controllers, release pipelines, and reproducible infrastructure.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at New Jersey Institute of TechnologyBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Fairleigh Dickinson University
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Github Skills (32)
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
cloud-computing10
python10
hashicorp-vault10
testing10
secret-management10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
ruby10
secrets-manager10
automation10
containerd10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
TerryHowe/ansible-modules-hashivault
May 2016 - Jan 2023
Ansible module for Hashicorp Vault.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:46 reviews, 709 commits, 299 PRs in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:The user, Terry Howe, primarily focused on the development and maintenance of Ansible modules for Hashicorp Vault, implementing features related to policy management, user authentication, and secret handling, including those for the newer KV2 engine. They also contributed to improving the module's documentation, added CI/CD and related infrastructure support, along with tests and added support to use different login mechanisms. The commits show a focus on enhancing the module's functionality and improving its integration with various Vault features.
hashicorp-vaultansible-moduleansiblevaulthashicorp
aws/eks-anywhere
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Run Amazon EKS on your own infrastructure 🚀
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:959 reviews, 138 commits, 221 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Terry's contributions primarily focused on modifying and improving the build and release processes within the repository. They updated the Sonobuoy release, fixed artifact download commands, and implemented changes to the conformance tests and their associated scripts. They also addressed vulnerabilities by updating dependencies and refactored the import images e2e command. The changes suggest a focus on streamlining and maintaining the project's build infrastructure.
kubernetes-deploymentamazon-ekstinkerbellhelmamazon
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