Tobias Macey
Associate Director Of Platform And DevOps Engineering
Montpelier, Vermont, United States
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Top SchoolTobias Macey is an associate director of platform and DevOps engineering with 13 years of experience building scalable infrastructure, automation, and data pipelines for academia and startups. He blends hands-on software engineering (Python, Ruby, Flask, Django, Rails) with systems automation and cloud architecture, having led MIT’s Open edX platform migration to immutable infrastructure and introduced SaltStack across teams. Tobias is a pragmatic leader who moved from individual contributor roles to supervising DevOps teams within months, and he complements operational work with data-focused solutions like migrating analytics to BigQuery. An active open-source contributor, he has improved testing and automation in projects such as Salt and the widely used pre-commit framework, and he hosts technical podcasts on AI and data engineering. His background in theoretical physics and computer engineering underpins a methodical, systems-oriented approach and a habit of operating at the limits of his abilities to keep learning.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Theoretical Physics, BS, Theoretical Physics at University of VermontBS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at DeVry University
English, German
Github Skills (20)
git10
python10
testing10
automation10
precommit10
pre-commit-hook10
salt10
automations10
test-automation10
pytest9
django8
ruby8
nodejs8
scripting7
script7
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
saltstack/salt
Mar 2016 - Jan 2018
Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:18 commits, 20 PRs, 24 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Tobias primarily focused on improving and maintaining the test infrastructure for the Salt project, specifically related to the Testinfra module. They addressed issues by updating modules to work with newer versions of the TestInfra library and fixed bugs related to incorrect assertion logic, which would have silently passed all tests. Furthermore, they added the option to specify a user when running django commands during testing. The contributions centered on ensuring the reliability and correctness of testing procedures.
pythonzeromqevent-streaminfrastructure-managementcloud-providers
pre-commit/pre-commit
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks.
Role in this project:Back-end & Automation Engineer
Back-end & Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Tobias primarily contributed to the `pre-commit` project by implementing features and improving the configuration. They added the ability to specify additional dependencies to be installed in the pre-commit environment and refactored existing methods. They also improved the stability of the codebase by fixing typos and reformatting method signatures. These changes involved modifying several language-specific installation scripts and adding unit tests to verify the correct installation of dependencies.
linterpythonmulti-languagepre-commitrefactoring
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