Wayne Witzel
Staff Engineer and Electrician
- Role
- Staff Software Engineer at Lambda
- Location
- Durham, NC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Wayne Witzel
Developer and consultant living in North Carolina and currently working as a software engineer in cloud computing.
Experience
Staff Software Engineer
Sep 2023 — Present · Durham, NC, US
Helped lead the design, development, and operations of core infrastructure platforms spanning bare metal provisioning, cloud infrastructure, fleet management, and event-driven automation.(current) Foundations Team - Part of the team that designed and built Lambda\'s internal bare metal provisioning platform: a multi-component system (Go API server, background workers, integrated DHCP server, SvelteKit management UI) that orchestrates host discovery, configuration selection, PXE/GRUB HTTP booting, firmware leveling, imaging, and initial configuration across Lambda\'s CPU, GPU, and DPU fleet. Built supporting systems including Go CLI for firmware lifecycle management, Python middleware synchronizing inventory across NetBox. Architected and operated an Argo Events platform running on a cross-fleet NATS mesh network, enabling event-driven orchestration and reactive automation across all datacenters.(previous) Platform Team - Owned the Ansible and Terraform estate that provisioned and configured Lambda\'s bare metal and cloud infrastructure. Built and maintained 20+ custom Ansible roles and playbooks for DPU, CPU, and GPU configuration, day-two operations, observability, configuration drift detection, and secrets management. Deployed and managed Ansible Automation Platform end-to-end (installer, controller configuration, execution environments, CI/CD via Buildkite). Authored Terraform modules for multi-cloud deployments across OCI and AWS, managing GPU hypervisors, networking, and Terraform Cloud workspace orchestration via Atlantis.
Skills
- Jquery
- Web Applications
- Tdd
- Mongodb
- Agile Methodologies
- Web Development
- C++
- Testing
- Test Driven Development
- Open Source Software
- Sqlalchemy
- Sql
- Linux
- Mysql
- Software Development
- Python
- Css
- Javascript
- Git
- Postgresql
- Programming
- Pyramid
- Pylons
- Go
- Open Source
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