Top Software Engineers in

Cloud Infrastructure and Automation Engineering

Cloud Infrastructure and Automation Engineering focuses on the design, implementation, and management of large-scale infrastructure systems on the cloud. This field incorporates the use of tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, and Jenkins to automate the deployment, scaling, and management of applications and services, thereby enhancing efficiency, reliability, and continuous integration and delivery processes.

Ranks are based on the open source contributions and reassessed every 30 days

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1

Tim Smith
Product Manager @ Mondoo at Mondoo
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United States
Rock Star
15 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
chef/chef
Chef: 6699 commits in 8 years 7 months
sous-chefs/rundeck
Rundeck: 4326 commits in 8 years 8 months
chef-boneyard/chef-dk
Chef-dk: 1530 commits in 5 years 5 months
Top skills
Score
devops
10
deployment
10
automation
10

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2

Lamont Granquist
Principal Software Engineer at Chef Software
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United States
Rock Star
24 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
chef/chef
Chef: 4189 commits in 10 years 11 months
MuMech/MechJeb2
MechJeb2: 2379 commits in 7 years 8 months
chef/ffi-yajl
Ffi-yajl: 526 commits in 7 years 6 months
Top skills
Score
devops
10
deployment
10
automation
10

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3

Dan DeLeo
Staff Professional Services Consultant at CloudBees
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United States
Rock Star
19 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
chef/chef
Chef: 3007 commits in 8 years 2 months
chef-boneyard/chef-dk
Chef-dk: 546 commits in 4 years 7 months
danielsdeleo/chef
Chef: 521 commits in 3 years 10 months
Top skills
Score
automation
10
deployment
10
devops
10

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4

Bryan Mclellan
DevOps Leader and Volunteer Fire Chief at chef
/
United States
Rock Star
26 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
chef/chef
Chef: 1308 commits in 12 years 9 months
chef/ohai
Ohai: 291 commits in 9 years 10 months
chef/knife-windows
Knife-windows: 99 commits in 8 years 6 months
Top skills
Score
devops
10
infrastructure
10
deployment
10

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5

Adam Jacob
CEO and Co-Founder at System Initiative
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United States
Rock Star
28 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
chef/chef
Chef: 1186 commits in 8 years 11 months
habitat-sh/habitat
Habitat: 174 commits in 3 years 3 months
cbuben/omnibus
Omnibus: 152 commits in 1 year 4 months
Top skills
Score
automation
10
infrastructure
10
deployment
10

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6

John Keiser
Employed at Microsoft
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United States
Rock Star
29 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
simdjson/simdjson
Simdjson: 1246 commits in 2 years 6 months
chef/chef
Chef: 1005 commits in 5 years 4 months
berg-lang/berg
Berg: 249 commits in 5 years 2 months
Top skills
Score
json
10
simd
10
json-parser
10

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7

John Mccrae
Software Development Engineer at Chef Software
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United States
Rock Star
24 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
chef/chef
Chef: 944 commits in 2 years 1 months
chef/chef-powershell-shim
Chef-powershell-shim: 132 commits in 11 months
chef/win32-certstore
Win32-certstore: 77 commits in 1 year 5 months
Top skills
Score
devops
10
deployment
10
automation
10

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8

Jay Mundrawala
Software Engineer at Mondoo
/
United States
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
chef/chef
Chef: 874 commits in 1 year 7 months
mondoohq/cnquery
Cnquery: 330 commits in 1 year 9 months
chef-boneyard/omnibus-chef
Omnibus-chef: 141 commits in 1 year 4 months
Top skills
Score
automation
10
deployment
10
devops
10

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9

Seth Chisamore
Director, Site Reliability Engineering & IT @ Tomo at Tomo
/
United States
Rock Star
26 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
chef/chef
Chef: 766 commits in 8 years 10 months
chef-boneyard/opscode-omnibus
Opscode-omnibus: 530 commits in 2 years 11 months
chef/omnibus
Omnibus: 393 commits in 9 years 2 months
Top skills
Score
devops
10
infrastructure
10
deployment
10

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10

Thom May
Senior SRE Manager at Apple
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United Kingdom
Rock Star
23 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
chef/chef
Chef: 634 commits in 3 years 4 months
chef/ohai
Ohai: 164 commits in 9 years 5 months
chef-boneyard/chef-dk
Chef-dk: 116 commits in 2 years 8 months
Top skills
Score
kubernetes
10
go
10
containers
10

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11

Tyler Ball
Graduate Student at University of Washington
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United States
Rock Star
19 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
chef/chef-workstation
Chef-workstation: 604 commits in 2 years 8 months
chef/chef
Chef: 397 commits in 6 years 1 months
chef-boneyard/chef-provisioning-aws
Chef-provisioning-aws: 332 commits in 3 years
Top skills
Score
devops
10
deployment
9
automation
9

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12

pete higgins
/
United States
Rock Star
15 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
chef/chef
Chef: 363 commits in 9 months
cinc-project/chef
Chef: 92 commits in 2 months
fables-tales/rubyfmt
Rubyfmt: 83 commits in 1 year 1 months
Top skills
Score
devops
10
infrastructure
10
deployment
10

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13

Marc A. Paradise
Employed at chef
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United States
Rock Star
12 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
chef/chef-server
Chef-server: 613 commits in 10 years 2 months
chef/chef-workstation
Chef-workstation: 399 commits in 4 years
chef-boneyard/oc_erchef
Oc_erchef: 341 commits in 2 years 5 months
Top skills
Score
deployment
10
automation
10
devops
10

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14

Noah Kantrowitz
Scruffy Nerf Herder at Geomagical Labs
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United States
Rock Star
18 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
Ridecell/ridecell-operator
Ridecell-operator: 714 commits in 1 year 6 months
poise/poise
Poise: 554 commits in 4 years 8 months
coderanger/coderanger.net
Coderanger.net: 471 commits in 10 years 9 months
Top skills
Score
kubernetes
10
devops
10
infrastructure
9

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15

Matt Wrock
Principal Software Engineer at Chef Software
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United States
Rock Star
24 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
habitat-sh/habitat
Habitat: 1637 commits in 6 years 4 months
chocolatey/boxstarter
Boxstarter: 1296 commits in 6 years 4 months
mwrock/RequestReduce
RequestReduce: 652 commits in 4 years 7 months
Top skills
Score
automation
10
deployment
7
devops
7

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16

Tom Duffield
Software Engineering Leader at Chef, Inc.
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United States
Rock Star
17 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
chef/ci-studio-common
Ci-studio-common: 237 commits in 3 years 10 months
chef/chef
Chef: 196 commits in 7 years 5 months
chef-boneyard/chef-dk
Chef-dk: 146 commits in 2 years 10 months
Top skills
Score
devops
10
infrastructure
9
deployment
9

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17

Thomas Powell
Solutions Architect at PC Progress and Owner, PC Progress
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United States
Rock Star
25 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
chef/chef
Chef: 182 commits in 5 months
chef/omnibus-software
Omnibus-software: 48 commits in 3 months
chef/chef-powershell-shim
Chef-powershell-shim: 11 commits in 24 days
Top skills
Score
automation
10
deployment
10
infrastructure
10

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18

Neha Pansare
Employed at Progress Software Corp
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United States
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
chef/chef
Chef: 166 commits in 1 year
chef/chef-powershell-shim
Chef-powershell-shim: 21 commits in 1 months
chef/omnibus-software
Omnibus-software: 8 commits in 4 months
Top skills
Score
automation
10
deployment
10
infrastructure
10

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19

Matthew Kent
Director at Genesis Research
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United States
Rock Star
13 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
mdkent/chef
Chef: 165 commits in 4 years
chef/chef
Chef: 160 commits in 4 years
cookbooks/apache2
Apache2: 66 commits in 10 days
Top skills
Score
devops
10
deployment
10
automation
10

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20

Prajakta Purohit
Engineering Manager at Chef Software
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United States
Rock Star
17 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
chef/chef-server
Chef-server: 671 commits in 8 years 2 months
chef/chef
Chef: 147 commits in 10 years 7 months
chef-boneyard/opscode-omnibus
Opscode-omnibus: 35 commits in 2 years 1 months
Top skills
Score
automation
10
deployment
10
devops
10

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