Thomas Phipps
Professional DM at Thomas Phipps
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Summary
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RockstarThomas Phipps is an infrastructure-focused engineer with 11 years of experience designing and operating Linux/Solaris server environments and automating configuration at scale using SaltStack. He has deep hands-on experience across datacenter, OpenStack, and AWS infrastructures, and has helped customers and teams troubleshoot complex production issues down to Python logic and multiprocessing internals. As a long-time contributor to the widely used salt project, he improved testing infrastructure and stability—work that directly impacts reliability for many users of the project. Thomas pairs strong systems engineering with pragmatic scripting and tooling skills, and has run and grown communities both in technical teams and, unexpectedly, as a Professional DM managing multi-player campaigns. Based in Las Vegas, he brings a practical blend of SRE mindset, infrastructure architecture, and people-led incident resolution to drive robust, maintainable deployments.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
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python10
test-automation10
testing10
cicd9
zeromq8
linux7
windows6
saltstack6
irc6
reactor6
devops6
runner6
jinja26
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
saltstack/salt
Nov 2021 - Nov 2022
Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:504 reviews, 74 commits, 78 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily focused on enhancing and refining the testing infrastructure and associated tools within the Salt project. They made modifications to the unit testing framework by adding assertions for exit statuses. Several commits addressed and corrected issues within the test suite and testing infrastructure. Further contributions involved resolving problems related to subprocess management and test execution, contributing to the overall stability and reliability of the test environment.
pythonzeromqevent-streaminfrastructure-managementcloud-providers
whytewolf/salt
Oct 2021 - Sep 2024
Software to automate the management and configuration of any infrastructure or application at scale. Get access to the Salt software package repository here:
Contributions:267 pushes, 95 branches, 1 tag in 2 years 11 months
saltdevopsitilinfrastructureinfrastructure-management
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