Vern Hart
Principal Field Software Engineer at Canonical Ltd.
Midvale, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolVern Hart is a Principal Field Software Engineer with over 25 years of deep hands-on experience in Unix systems, databases, and cloud infrastructure, currently driving field engineering at Canonical. He has a proven track record building and scaling operations—from taking a small hosting business to supporting 250,000+ domains to directing support and delivery for OpenStack and cloud platforms. Vern combines systems-level craftsmanship (embedded Linux, self-healing Wi‑Fi) with operational leadership, having led IT for multiple startups and built training and support programs for global customers. He contributes to open-source cloud tooling as a QA/test automation engineer on Juju, improving network health tests and reliability for large-scale deployments. Based in Midvale, Utah, he blends practical troubleshooting with architecture design, regularly shipping pragmatic automation and observability solutions. Colleagues know him as a relentless problem solver who prefers building resilient systems over theory alone.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Idaho
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Github Skills (11)
ec10
net10
amazon-ec210
testing10
python9
go9
operation7
devops7
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
container7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
juju/juju
Dec 2017 - Feb 2018
Orchestration engine that enables the deployment, integration and lifecycle management of applications at any scale, on any infrastructure (Kubernetes or otherwise).
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:15 commits, 3 PRs, 25 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Vern primarily focused on enhancing the network health acceptance tests within the Juju repository. Their commits introduce new tests for EC2 spaces, ensuring proper network configuration and connectivity. They also refactored and updated existing tests to improve clarity and incorporate recommended changes, including moving the tests to a separate file. These contributions directly improved the testing coverage and reliability of Juju's network functionality.
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vernhart/flickr-moderate
May 2017 - Aug 2021
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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