All things webhooks.

REST and GraphQL APIs

I realized that I wanted a change of scenery and needed to recharge, and I decided to take a summer break before moving on to my next adventure. Activities included kayaking and hiking, reading in parks, and taking a ceramics class and learning how to make lopsided bowls.

I worked on Puppet's primary server product, Puppet Server, an open source project written in Clojure, Java, and Ruby. This involved maintaining and improving a complex webserver stack with many concurrency challenges, and collaborating with many other teams - QA, QE, Release Engineering, Docs, UX, Product, Customer Success - to release a resilient and scalable system responsible for managing our customer's entire infrastructures. Ensuring that the whole team was successful in working with a large and complicated code base involved writing unit and integration-level tests, reviewing pull requests on GitHub, and mentoring team members.In 2015 I spoke with a coworker at the conference Clojure/West on a Clojure framework our team had written, called Trapperkeeper ("One Binder to Rule Them All: An Introduction to Trapperkeeper").Prior to this, I worked on the Puppet Enterprise Console, writing the backend for the web GUI for Puppet's enterprise product. I worked on a new Role Based Access Control (RBAC) feature for the Console, using Clojure, PostgreSQL, and the Java Apache Shiro library, providing fine-grained access control permis-sions over specific components.I also worked to integrate a new technology stack into the Console, ensuring that users had a seamless experience moving between new and legacy components of the Console, while the architecture was moving from a Ruby-based stack to a JVM-based stack. As a result of this work, I was considered to be the subject matter expert on the architecture of Puppet Enterprise. I presented on this to the Engineering department at a yearly all-hands, and I presented on the improved Puppet Enterprise Console at PuppetConf 2014: ("An In-Depth Introduction to the Puppet Enterprise Console").