Spencer Herzberg
Software Engineering Consultant at HERZBERG ENTERPRISES, LLC
United States
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Top SchoolSpencer Herzberg is a software engineering consultant with 16 years of experience building cloud-native and web applications for enterprises and startups, currently advising clients through Trility Consulting and his independent practice. He specializes in DevOps and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Terraform) and is a pragmatic backend engineer fluent in Go and Python, with hands-on experience optimizing distributed systems. Spencer has contributed to the widely used Vault project at HashiCorp, improving its Zookeeper backend and addressing performance and consistency issues—evidence of his ability to tackle complex, production-critical problems. He blends architectural thinking with customer-focused product sensibility, prioritizing solutions that reduce daily friction for users. Outside of code he’s a hobbyist woodworker who applies the same attention to detail to small furniture as he does to system design.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Software Engineering at Rochester Institute of TechnologyBS Computer Science Engineering Science, BS Computer Science Engineering Science at Wartburg College
English
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Github Skills (12)
secret-management10
secrets-manager10
go10
backend10
zookeeper10
back-end-development10
vault10
testing9
bamboo6
continuous-integration6
debian6
package6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/vault
May 2015 - Sep 2015
A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 6 PRs, 20 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Spencer primarily contributed to the implementation and refinement of the Zookeeper backend for the Vault project. Their work included the initial integration, fixing code comments, limiting round trips on delete operations, and correcting default settings. The user also focused on optimizing Zookeeper operations, particularly path handling and recursive deletion, and addressing version conflicts.
access-managementencryptionvaultgosecrets
sherzberg/graylog-plugin-s3
Mar 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:4 releases, 23 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 8 months
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