Wren Mink
On Sabbatical
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWren Mink is a product and engineering leader with over a decade of experience building resilient, user-focused systems and high-performing teams. She has led engineering organizations at startups and scale-ups—driving launches, designing iterative large-scale systems, and scaling teams into empathetic, generative cultures. Known for debugging organizational dysfunction as much as technical systems, she balances cross-functional strategy with hands-on engineering (Erlang, Ruby, C++, ML and more) and has contributed to well-known open-source projects like Chef to improve automation and server resilience. At Folx Health and Auth0 she grew teams, instituted career ladders and shipped mission-critical products under tight timelines. Currently on sabbatical caring for family and writing, she brings a rare combination of operational rigor, product sensibility, and human-centered leadership.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and TechnologyBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (19)
erlang10
testing10
chef-client10
automation10
chef-infra10
chef-solo10
automations10
devops10
server10
scripting9
ruby9
configuration-management9
rabbitmq9
shell9
script9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
chef/chef-server
Jul 2014 - Mar 2016
Chef Infra Server is a hub for configuration data; storing cookbooks, node policies and metadata of managed nodes.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:26 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Wren's contributions primarily focused on improving the Chef Infra Server's resilience and stability. They addressed issues related to organization creation, implementing retry mechanisms for 503 errors. Additionally, the user updated the configuration of the system, making improvements to the build/deployment process, including updating interfaces. Minor style and typo fixes were also included, further demonstrating a focus on quality and maintainability.
erlangstoringnodesinfrachef-server
chef/chef
Jun 2014 - Aug 2014
Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:14 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Wren primarily focused on improving the `chef/chef` repository's automation and testing infrastructure. Their contributions included switching from the `command` to `shell_out` method, fixing and improving the cookbook tests, and making modifications to accommodate system differences in the testing environment, particularly for Travis CI. The user also updated the code to include the `shell_out` mixin. Additionally, they contributed to improvements of the link provider.
devopsdeploymentansibleinfrastructureinfra
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