Wayne Werner
Contract Software Engineer at SOS Technologies
Maumelle, Arkansas, United States
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Top SchoolWayne Werner is a pragmatic contract software engineer with 16 years of experience building and improving backend systems, configuration management, and developer tooling. He has driven core functionality and reliability improvements at SaltStack and contributed to well-regarded open-source projects like the watson time-tracking CLI, focusing on robust behavior and better UX. Wayne blends hands-on Python expertise with infrastructure automation and testing discipline—skills honed across roles at VMware, PayPal, and SaltStack and in porting legacy systems and introducing CI/SaltStack at prior employers. Based in Maumelle, Arkansas, he pairs a maker’s mentality (from building sheds and winning NaNoWriMo) with a clear commitment to good coding practices that make software more reliable and teams more effective.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Part 107 Remote Aircraft, Part 107 Remote Aircraft at Pilot InstituteBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Central Arkansas
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Github Skills (37)
python10
configuration-management10
pg10
typehinting10
gnupg10
centering9
file-extension9
testing9
unit-testing9
user-interface9
json9
cron9
if-statement9
serialization9
data-serialization9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
saltstack/salt
Jan 2019 - Jan 2023
Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:803 reviews, 428 commits, 212 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Wayne's commits primarily focused on enhancing the Salt configuration management system. Their work involved adding functionality to support Python 2 deprecation, improving the handling of binary data, and refactoring the GPG renderer. The user also contributed to improving the tests, for both general quality and accuracy. The contributions demonstrate a focus on core functionality improvements.
pythonzeromqevent-streaminfrastructure-managementcloud-providers
jazzband/Watson
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
:watch: A wonderful CLI to track your time!
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 30 comments in 9 days
Contributions summary:Wayne primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and usability of the `watson` command-line application. Their contributions involved modifying the core logic of the application, specifically the `start` command, to incorporate features such as stopping a running project before starting a new one and improving the handling of configuration options. They also updated documentation to reflect changes in the application's behavior. The user's work centered on refining the application's core functionality and user experience.
command-line-apppythontimetrackercommand-linecli
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