Bill Hurt
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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RockstarWilliam Hurt is a Lead Software Engineer with a decade of experience building reliable backend systems and automation across cloud and enterprise environments. He progressed from hands-on platform and DevOps work to leading engineering teams at New Relic, with deep practical experience in Ruby/Rails, PowerShell, CI/CD, and Azure migrations. Known for improving build and test pipelines—evidenced by contributions to the WebAdministrationDsc DSC module—he focuses on operational reliability and efficient developer workflows. His background in platform engineering and systems administration gives him a pragmatic, infrastructure-aware approach to software design. A former Marine with technical training and field deployments, he brings discipline and systems thinking to complex engineering problems. He prefers solving interesting problems with great teams over language dogma, combining leadership with continued hands-on craftsmanship.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (17)
azure-devops-server10
testing10
dsc10
cicd10
azure-devops10
iis10
powershell10
automation9
automations9
xml6
sql-server6
sql6
concatenation6
stored-procedures6
tsql6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dsccommunity/WebAdministrationDsc
Oct 2019 - Feb 2020
This module contains DSC resources for deploying and configuring web servers and related components.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 9 PRs, 22 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Bill focused on improving the Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline and addressing build issues. They resolved problems in the Azure DevOps pipelines, specifically correcting issues related to adding features and image configurations. The user also addressed SSL download errors within the unit tests. Finally, the user updated the testing infrastructure by deprecating specific image pools, thus improving efficiency and reliability within the development workflow.
webserverdsc-resourcesdsciisiis-configuration
RandomNoun7/RandomNoun7.github.io
Jul 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:259 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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