Cameron Showalter
Software Engineer at Alaska Satellite Facility
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCameron Showalter is a software engineer with nine years’ experience designing resilient, cloud-native systems and automations, currently building serverless architectures and DevOps tooling at the Alaska Satellite Facility. He blends hands-on engineering with team leadership, having served as Scrum Master for an AI SAR research team and mentoring interns on Agile practices. Cameron has migrated large on-prem databases to Postgres in AWS, automated Kubernetes and Helm provisioning pipelines, and implemented zero-downtime Lambda + CloudFront APIs via AWS CDK. He contributes to open-source projects like the Python native GUI toolkit Toga, improving test coverage and cross-platform rendering reliability. Known for turning research-focused requirements into production-ready services, he also has a background in building Python packages and long-running search deployments for satellite data discovery. Based in the United States, he pairs practical cloud architecture skills with a knack for operationalizing research workflows.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Alaska Fairbanks
Github Skills (12)
front-end-development10
pytest10
python10
ui-testing10
widgets10
test-automation10
platform-independent9
multiplatform9
cross-platform9
github-ci4
cicd4
githubaction-workflow4
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
beeware/toga
May 2024 - May 2024
A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 PRs, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Cameron primarily contributed to the Toga project by fixing bugs and improving test coverage. They addressed a rendering issue in the button tests specific to Fedora 40. Additionally, the user made adjustments to the codebase related to window instantiation and content, and updated dependencies. The commits also include refactoring of the tests, making imports althabetical and removing debug information.
gui-toolkitpythongui
asfadmin/Discovery-WKTUtils
Jun 2020 - Aug 2022
Collection of tools for handling WKT's and such
Contributions:4 releases, 5 reviews, 464 PRs in 2 years 2 months
wkt
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