Troy C
Platform Engineering
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTroy C is a Platform Engineer based in Austin with 12 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure across GCP, Azure, and hybrid environments. He has strong SRE/DevOps chops—Terraform, Ansible, Nomad/Consul, Vault, Jenkins pipelines and container security—paired with production experience on databases like PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Redis and Kafka. Troy has repeatedly simplified complex pipelines (e.g., replacing custom tooling with concise Jenkins shared libraries) and led migrations that improved reliability and cost-efficiency. He’s an active open-source contributor to system-level projects like AutoKey and Conky, improving UIs, docs, and low-level stability for Linux/X11 tooling. Comfortable in polyglot codebases (Go, Python, Bash, PHP, even FreePascal), he also emphasizes the human side of ops—restoring trust and collaboration across teams. Practical, hands-on, and detail-oriented, Troy excels at turning brittle systems into maintainable, secure platforms.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
English, Spanish
Github Skills (15)
automation10
c-language10
automations10
gtk10
cprogramming-language10
python10
system-monitoring10
documentation9
linux9
cmake8
pyqt8
lua8
configuration-management8
wayland6
cairo5
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
autokey/autokey
Nov 2016 - Oct 2020
AutoKey, a desktop automation utility for Linux and X11.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:25 releases, 115 commits, 30 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Troy primarily contributed to the AutoKey project by updating the user interface and documentation. Their commits include updating the README, modifying configuration files, and updating links throughout the codebase. They also made changes to the setup.py file, integrating autopep8 and refactoring the structure of the project to improve code quality and maintainability.
desktop-applicationpythonwindowsx11desktop-automation
brndnmtthws/conky
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Light-weight system monitor for X, Wayland, and other things, too
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 5 comments in 9 days
Contributions summary:Troy focused on improving the core functionality of the `conky` project, primarily by addressing disk I/O and related file path handling issues. Their commits involved refining device label searching, resolving segfaults related to invalid labels, and correcting freetype include paths, ensuring proper build configurations and dependencies. These changes indicate a focus on system monitoring and ensuring the software's stability and functionality, which aligns with the project's purpose.
lualight-weightmonitorwaylandlight
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