Winston Weinert
DevOps Engineer at Freelance DevOps
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolWinston Weinert is a DevOps engineer with 13 years of hands-on software and infrastructure experience, currently freelancing from Milwaukee. He blends SRE practices with software engineering—building automation and tools (Ansible, custom become plugins), working with Spring Boot services, MySQL, OpenShift, and observability concepts like SLOs/SLIs. His background spans client-server desktop development in C# and OpenEdge to modern cloud-native operations, and he has repeatedly taken ownership of migrations, backups, and deployment automation. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved back-end functionality and UI behavior on community projects such as a Pandora client and an OS X IRC client, showing comfort across full-stack maintenance. Beyond production systems, he’s implemented internal tooling, test suites, and networking setups, reflecting a pragmatic problem-solver who pairs coding craft with operational reliability.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of Wisconsin-Green BayBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeMcKinley AcademyComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at UW Manitowoc
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Github Skills (19)
objective-c10
python10
user-interface10
ui-design10
graphical-user-interface10
sharedpreferences9
user-preferences9
preference9
system-preferences9
gnome9
gitlab9
gtk8
linux7
lisp6
recursion6
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
Codeux-Software/Textual
Mar 2013 - Dec 2014
Textual is an IRC client for OS X
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Winston contributed to the Textual IRC client, modifying both the user interface and backend logic. Changes include UI enhancements for alert preferences, specifically related to the dock icon bounce feature. The user also worked on backend improvements, such as abstracting the mute sound function into IRCWorld. Additionally, the user made updates to address book functionality.
weechatirc-clientsaslos-xtextual
pithos/pithos
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
A Pandora Radio Client
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Winston primarily focused on implementing and improving the back-end functionality of the Pithos Pandora radio client. Their contributions included adding `__repr__` methods for object representation and returning stations from the Pandora API. Furthermore, the user documented the basics of the Pandora package and refactored the code to use relative imports and created an executable module for the program. These changes improved the codebase and functionality.
linuxgnomepandora-radioradiomusic
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