Yousif Akbar
Principal Software Engineer at Gruntwork
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYousif Akbar is a Principal Software Engineer with a decade of experience designing cost-effective, scalable cloud and DevOps systems, currently leading infrastructure engineering at Gruntwork. He progressed through senior DevOps and WebOps roles at PBS and consulting positions where he improved operational resilience for large Appian and cloud deployments. An active contributor to terragrunt, he has hands-on experience solving Terraform/OpenTofu compatibility and remote state challenges, bringing pragmatic IaC improvements that boost reliability and performance. Based in Washington, D.C., he combines systems-level engineering with a strong operational mindset and a Computer Engineering degree from the University of Miami.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering at University of Miami
Github Skills (8)
terraformer10
infrastructure10
cloud-infrastructure10
aws10
devops10
terraform10
cicd9
go8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
gruntwork-io/terragrunt
Jan 2021 - Apr 2025
Terragrunt is a flexible orchestration tool that allows Infrastructure as Code written in OpenTofu/Terraform to scale.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Infrastructure Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Infrastructure EngineerContributions:75 releases, 609 reviews, 483 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Yousif made several commits focused on improving and maintaining the infrastructure-as-code (IaC) aspects of the repository. They addressed issues related to Terraform version compatibility, including the addition of tests and configuration updates to support specific Terraform versions. They also contributed to the codebase by moving cache functionality to internal, integrating features like caching for IAM role assumptions, and providing enhancements to remote state initialization, indicating a focus on improving the operational efficiency and reliability of the project's infrastructure.
devopsterragruntterraform-modulesdeveloper-toolsthin
pbs/terraform-aws-ecr-module
Jun 2022 - Nov 2023
Standard PBS TF Elastic Container Registry Module
Contributions:29 PRs, 30 pushes, 36 branches in 1 year 4 months
elasticdockerregistry-modulepbskubernetes
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