Graham Krizek
Summary
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RockstarGraham Krizek is a founder and CEO based in Wichita, Kansas with 11 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and developer-facing tools. He moved from hands-on SRE and AWS architecture roles into senior public cloud engineering at Salesforce before founding Voltage, blending enterprise-scale reliability with startup velocity. His contributions to the troposphere open-source project show a practical focus on extending AWS CloudFormation support—adding CodeBuild, CodePipeline, Cognito, NATGateway and Elastic Beanstalk features—underscoring his expertise in cloud automation. Graham’s background spans quantitative engineering and systems administration, giving him a rare mix of operational rigor and data-driven problem solving. He holds a BS in Operations & Supply Chain Management and Economics from Kansas State University, and often surfaces subtle platform improvements that make large-scale deployments easier to manage.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
troposphere10
aws-cloudformation10
aws10
python10
codebuild10
beanstalkd9
pipeline8
aws-codepipeline8
amazon-cognito8
pipe8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
cloudtools/troposphere
Jul 2017 - Nov 2018
troposphere - Python library to create AWS CloudFormation descriptions
Role in this project:
Backend Engineer
Backend EngineerContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 17 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Graham contributed to the troposphere library by adding new properties and features related to AWS CloudFormation resources. They implemented support for `PrivilegedMode` and `Auth` properties in `CodeBuild`, added `Tags` to `NATGateway`, introduced `ResourceLifecycleConfig` for `ElasticBeanstalk`, added `UsernameAttributes` to `Cognito`, and enabled multi-region actions in `CodePipeline`. Furthermore, they updated PyPI information by modifying the `setup.py` file.
aws-cloudformationpythontropospherecloudformationpython3
gkrizek/bash-lambda-layer
Dec 2018 - Aug 2020
Run Bash scripts in AWS Lambda via Layers
Contributions:5 releases, 23 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 8 months
aws-lambdabashlambdaserverlessaws
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