John Partlow
Full Stack Software Developer at John "Mickey" Partlow Software Development
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Partlow is a Full Stack Software Developer in Portland, Oregon with 15 years of experience building responsive front-ends (React, JavaScript, Redux) and robust back-ends (Ruby on Rails, ActiveRecord, Postgres/MySQL). He blends a creative background in experimental music and collage art with pragmatic engineering, producing UX-focused interfaces and thoughtfully designed architecture. An active open-source contributor to the Puppet ecosystem—including beaker, puppetserver and puppet_agent—he specializes in test automation, cross-platform packaging and improving acceptance-test reliability across Solaris, RHEL and Windows. He runs his own consultancy, thrives in collaborative environments, and brings hands-on problem solving from earlier carpentry and operations roles to complex engineering challenges.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Full stack software engineer, Web Development, Full stack software engineer, Web Development at Flatiron School
Github Skills (38)
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puppet10
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scripting10
testing10
rspec10
configuration-management10
bash10
acceptance-testing10
ruby10
python-module10
python-modules10
automation10
script10
sup10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
puppetlabs/puppet
Apr 2013 - May 2021
Server automation framework and application
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:747 commits, 8 PRs, 2 pushes in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:John's contributions center on enhancing the functionality of the RPM and DPKG package providers within the Puppet infrastructure. They modified the format strings of rpm and dpkg-query to include package descriptions, thereby enhancing the ability to query package status on nodes. The changes include handling multi-line description fields within dpkg-query and the use of a specific delimiter for parsing. The user also made adjustments to account for changes in how the RPM package information is parsed after the fact.
frameworkautomationjavaautomation-frameworkserver-automation
voxpupuli/beaker
Aug 2013 - Jun 2017
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:28 commits, 1 PR, 24 comments in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:John's contributions primarily revolve around improving the testing and operational aspects of the Beaker project, which is a Puppet acceptance testing harness. They've focused on enhancing the reliability of the test environment by adding error handling, specifically dumping puppet logs upon master startup failures and implementing improved checks for the master process. Further, they've updated package installation and uninstallation procedures for multiple operating systems including Solaris, RHEL and Windows. The commits also show the implementation of utility functions related to test environments.
acceptance-testingpuppettestingacceptanceharness
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