Troy Howard
CEO at Cicada Alley, LLC
Portland, Oregon, United States
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RockstarTroy Howard is a seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur with 15 years of experience building developer ecosystems, open-source projects, and community-focused ventures from Portland, Oregon. As CEO of Cicada Alley and a former Principal Technical Content Engineer at Pulumi, he blends hands-on engineering, technical writing, and product strategy to drive adoption and growth for cloud and observability platforms. He has a long track record of founding and organizing influential tech conferences (Write the Docs, NodePDX, .NET Fringe, JSConf.cn, ML4ALL) and contributing to open-source ecosystems, including maintenance work on the Azure SDK for Ruby. Troy also brings operational and civic-minded leadership through nonprofit board service that scaled meal provision operations and local investment in community spaces. Comfortable moving between code, content, and community, he often spotlights the less-visible but critical work—like license compliance and documentation—that makes software sustainable.
15 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
English, Chinese
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-sdk-for-ruby
Aug 2012 - Oct 2012
Ruby SDK for Azure Resource Manager: build and manage your Azure cloud infrastructure (Compute, Virtual Networks, Storage, etc...) using Ruby.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:225 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Troy primarily contributed to the Azure SDK for Ruby, specifically focusing on incorporating license headers across various source code files. These changes included adding the Microsoft copyright and license information to a significant number of files located in multiple directories. This was a code maintenance effort that improves the code's compliance with the Apache 2.0 license and clarifies the intellectual property rights associated with the code.
azure-resourcescloud-infrastructureazure-functionsresource-managerinfrastructure
thoward/lucene-query-parser.js
Dec 2011 - Nov 2017
Lucene Query Parser for Javascript created using PEG.js.
Contributions:2 releases, 32 commits, 7 PRs in 6 years
queryquery-parserjavascriptpegparser-generator
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