Vaughn Dice
Founding Engineer at Fermyon
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVaughn Dice is a Founding Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in test automation, DevOps, and backend systems for cloud-native platforms. He helped build CI/CD and deployment automation at Microsoft and Deis and now drives core engineering at Fermyon, bringing deep practical knowledge of Brigade, Porter, and CNAB workflows. Known for disciplined mathematical thinking, he refactors systems toward efficient, expressive code and has contributed Azure Blob Storage integration and robust build/test pipelines to well-known projects like etcd-operator and brigade. Vaughn thrives in focused development fueled by eclectic music but is most productive through collaborative engineering, where his attention to reproducible pipelines and infrastructure-as-code delivers reliable releases.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Mathematics Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Mathematics Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Colorado BoulderWeb Application Development, Web Application Development at Epicodus
Github Skills (31)
kubernetes10
github-ci10
docker10
spin10
schema-validation10
bash10
etcd10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
go10
ci-cd-pipeline10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
serverless10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
brigadecore/brigade
Oct 2018 - Oct 2021
Event-driven scripting for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:46 releases, 644 reviews, 370 commits in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Vaughn made several contributions related to improving the Brigade project's build processes and infrastructure. Their commits focused on fixing bugs, addressing linting errors, and improving the build process through modifications to the `brigade.js` file. They also added tests, made dependency updates, enhanced documentation, and configured the build scripts, suggesting a focus on CI/CD pipeline and project maintainability.
scriptingkubernetescncfevent-driven
getporter/porter
Jan 2019 - Aug 2021
Porter enables you to package your application artifact, client tools, configuration and deployment logic together as an installer that you can distribute, and install with a single command.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 releases, 384 reviews, 213 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Vaughn primarily contributed to the development and automation of the Porter project. They focused on enhancing the CI/CD pipeline using Brigade, including creating and configuring jobs for building, testing, and publishing the project. The user also implemented support for parameter sets, introduced file-based parameter handling, and added support for the upgrade action. This user shows a strong understanding of the project's build and deployment infrastructure.
porterdevopsdeploymentinstallercnab
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