Wesley Pettit
Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Dublin, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolWesley Pettit is a Software Development Engineer at AWS with nine years of experience building and hardening cloud-native tooling, particularly around container and logging ecosystems. Based in Dublin, Ohio, he contributes to prominent open-source projects such as amazon-ecs-cli and aws-for-fluent-bit, improving ECS/Fargate workflows, security-group handling, SigV4 signing, and integration tests for streaming outputs. An OSU alumnus with a 3.94 GPA, he blends backend engineering and DevOps expertise to ship reliable CI/CD pipelines and production-ready features. Notably, his work spans both algorithmic fixes (URI parameter encoding and SigV4 correctness) and pragmatic developer UX improvements (tagging, logs command enhancements), showing attention to edge cases that materially improve operator experience.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Cumulative GPA: 3.94, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Cumulative GPA: 3.94 at The Ohio State UniversityDublin Jerome High School
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Github Skills (32)
docker10
cloud-computing10
back-end-development10
scripting10
dockers10
cicd10
script10
aws-cloudformation10
go10
aws10
aws-ecs10
sh10
shell10
testing9
cloud-infrastructure9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-for-fluent-bit
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
The source of the amazon/aws-for-fluent-bit container image
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:30 releases, 744 reviews, 150 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Wesley primarily contributed to the integration and testing aspects of the `aws/aws-for-fluent-bit` repository. They implemented integration tests for Kinesis Streams, Firehose, and S3 output plugins, demonstrating a focus on ensuring the functionality and reliability of these components. The user also modified the CI/CD pipeline, including updating the Dockerfile and publish scripts, indicating a role in automating the build and deployment processes. Furthermore, the user added checks, fixes, and improvements to the integration tests for the cloudwatch plugin.
athenaamazondockeraws-sdkamazon-aws
aws/amazon-ecs-cli
Jun 2017 - Sep 2019
The Amazon ECS CLI enables users to run their applications on ECS/Fargate using the Docker Compose file format, quickly provision resources, push/pull images in ECR, and monitor running applications on ECS/Fargate.
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:14 releases, 1 review, 152 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Wesley's contributions centered on enhancing the functionality and maintainability of the `aws/amazon-ecs-cli` repository. They implemented features to support multiple security groups in the "up" command, updated dependencies like libcompose, and introduced support for defining ECS Secrets. Furthermore, the user was involved in making the `ecs-cli` compatible with all CloudFormation stacks as well as incorporating tagging features for various resources. They also improved the functionality of the logs command and addressed edge cases.
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