Andrew Gargan
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarAndrew Gray is a Principal Solutions Architect and network specialist with eight years in senior cloud and networking roles and over two decades of hands-on engineering experience. Currently at AWS, he brings deep carrier-grade network design and automation expertise honed leading backbone re-architectures at Charter and large-scale IP deployments at Cox. He blends pragmatic network engineering (MPLS, BGP, IPv6, MPLS-TE) with software-driven automation—authoring Python tools, contributing to IETF drafts, and improving CloudFormation testing in the popular taskcat open-source project. Known for producing long-range roadmaps and operational playbooks, he mentors engineers and bridges the gap between network operations and cloud-native infrastructure. Based in Englewood, Colorado, he pairs systems-level thinking with a history of building tooling that turns complex network designs into repeatable, testable deployments.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (6)
aws-cloudformation10
cloud-infrastructure10
cloud-services10
python10
cil9
testing8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
aws-ia/taskcat
Oct 2019 - Jul 2022
Test all the CloudFormation things! (with TaskCat)
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:12 reviews, 25 commits, 10 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the `taskcat` project by enhancing the functionality of its template URL parsing capabilities. The user added new logic for parsing template URLs, improving the project's ability to handle nested CloudFormation templates. The user also refined and added tests to validate these new URL parsing features, ensuring the robustness of the improvements. These changes directly relate to the project's core function of testing and validating CloudFormation templates.
cloudformation-launchercfncloudformation-testing-frameworkawstaskcat
aws-quickstart/quickstart-armory-enterprise
Apr 2021 - Oct 2021
AWS Quick Start Team
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 58 commits in 6 months
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