About Gruntwork

Yevgeniy ("Jim") Brikman

Co-founder

Jim is the author of two books published by O’Reilly Media: Hello, Startup and Terraform: Up & Running. He has more than a decade of experience building infrastructure and products that serve hundreds of millions of users at LinkedIn, TripAdvisor, Cisco Systems, and Thomson Financial.

Josh Padnick

Co-founder

Josh is the author of the definitive 12,000+ word guide to building scalable web apps on AWS which garnered 500+ upvotes on Hacker News, has presented on AWS and DevOps at numerous conferences and meetups, and built apps on AWS for 100,000+ users. Previously, he founded Omedix (now Edaris Health), a healthcare IT company that served over 4,200 providers and 500,000 patient-users.

Eugene Kolnick

Principal Software Engineer

Eugene has almost 12 years of Software Engineering Experience under his belt. 11 of those years were spent in FinTech working on portfolio risk analysis, order management systems, and everywhere else in the back office. Eugene specialized in building scalable, highly distributed, performance sensitive applications that monitored 100MM+ daily transactions. Outside of work, Eugene enjoys anything DIY. His hobbies include wood working, tinkering on anything with an engine, and most recently, sourdough bread baking.

Monica Chun

Financial Planning Adviser

Monica has worked in Finance for 15+ years. Her career spans investment banking, corporate financial planning, and small business financial management. At Gruntwork, she oversees financial and accounting functions and works closely with management on financial strategy and planning. In addition to building sophisticated (but usable) financial models, she also enjoys travelling, volunteering in community organizations, and has recently taken up tennis.

Yori Yano

Principal Software Engineer

Yori is an experienced software engineer passionate about building tools to make developers’ lives easier. Prior to joining Gruntwork, Yori was a founding team member at Captricity, a company building a secure digital automation solution for enterprises operating in highly regulated industries. During his time there, he built out Captricity’s core digitization platform from a research prototype. He eventually became specialized in Site Reliability Engineering and successfully led the team to materialize a 10x improvement in the throughput of the digitization platform. In his free time, he likes to tinker with his home datacenter (comprised of a mix of SBCs) and scout for new technologies to learn (currently CUDA and GPGPU programming).

Amy Stein

Accountant

Amy has spent the last 20 years immersed in financial accounting systems and processes. She has worked in the finance function across a variety of businesses from Fortune 500s to goat milk soap producers. When she is not running after her children, she can be found pursuing her goal of running a half marathon in each of the fifty states of the USA.

Rob Morgan

Principal Software Engineer

Rob has always lived and breathed technology from a very early age. He is an experienced engineer and technology leader having worked for and co-founded a number of Internet companies. Originally from the world's most isolated capital city (Perth, Western Australia), Rob now lives in Berlin, Germany and works heavily within the startup scene. His open source projects have been downloaded more than 5 million times. Outside of work Rob likes to travel, swim and listen to electronic dance music.

Oreoluwa David Agunbiade

Software Engineer

Ore's desire to understand how electronics and computers work led to a university degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering and a brief career in Telecommunications. Prior to Gruntwork, Ore worked as a Full Stack web developer at Everylayer Inc. developing various applications with the sole purpose of making Internet services easily accessible and affordable in Nairobi, Kenya. Outside of work, Ore enjoys console gaming, basketball and soccer.

Ben Whaley

Principal Software Engineer

Ben is a passionate engineer with a formidable security bent and a healthy skepticism of the status quo. His many years of experience as a technical consultant have instilled in him a strong sense of customer advocacy and service. Ben is a technical writer, a public speaker, and is active in the Amazon Web Services community. In his personal life, Ben enjoys the outdoors, instrumental music, playing guitar, reading, and spending time with his wife and dogs.

Amanda Ohmer

Virtual Assistant

Amanda is a born and raised desert loving Arizonan. After 9 years of owning a small bakery business, she sold and went in search of a different path. Now, Amanda uses her skills to help others through community building and part time virtual assistant work. When she isn’t working with growing companies she is spending time with her family and pets or outdoors adventuring in the mountains.

Zack Proser

Software Engineer

Zack is an engineer and artist who loves to create, learn and share knowledge via technical writing, tutorials, and open source code. Prior to Gruntwork, he was an engineer at Cloudflare, Cloudmark, and BrightContext, and did consulting work for Johns Hopkins.

Marina Limeira

Software Engineer

Marina is a Brazilian software developer, currently living in Berlin and and now working as a Software Engineer at Gruntwork. She has worked across a variety of industries, including healthcare, marketing, finance, and car trading, and across the entire stack, including backend, frontend, DevOps, and testing. She loves functional programming in Clojure, travel, and video games.

Taylor Smith

Product Manager

Taylor is a Product Manager with a passion for bridging the gap between customer needs and business. She previously worked for a Fortune 6 company where she focused on facilitating Product Management during a digital transformation. Extremely detail oriented and creative, in her free time you can find her tackling various interior design projects at home, or spending time with her fiancé or her dog, Lewis.

Rho Sang

Principal Software Engineer

Rho has been coding since they were a kid and is naturally drawn to problems that require seeing how everything fits together. Their background in Cognitive Science and experience design informs the humanistic way they approach problems. Formerly at Elastic, they built the Upgrade Assistant to help customers automate migrating petabytes of data. Equipped with over a decade of experience across a variety of verticals and startup stages, now they’re keen to solve the foundational problems in automating infrastructure. They want to make people’s lives easier across the board, occasionally using their training in therapeutic domains to rehabilitate those in pain. They also love open water swimming, ride a fixed-gear bike avidly, and run rather slowly.

Eben Eliason

Principal Product Designer

Eben is a UX designer with a passion for synthesizing form and function to create truly enjoyable experiences. With degrees in interactive media and computer science, he tackles any design problem from both creative and analytical perspectives. He's not afraid to get his hands dirty in code to play, prototype, or tweak a tiny detail until it's just right. Prior to Gruntwork, Eben served as Director of Design at Oblong, crafting next-gen collaborative conference rooms and apps to improve team communication by bringing in-person social cues to virtual meetings. He's also a hiker, boulderer, and board game enthusiast who dabbles in game design himself.

Ina Stoyanova

Software Engineer

Ina is a software engineer based in London but originally from Bulgaria. She has previously been consulting in different industries such as fintech, recruitment and cosmetics. Ina is all about learning and sharing everything DevSecOps, and chasing endlessly the perfect engineering workflow. She is currently pursuing an MSc in Software & Systems Security. In her spare time Ina can be found taking photos somewhere with golden beaches, learning guitar or training martial arts.

Ana Krivokapić

Principal Software Engineer

Ana is a software engineer with over a decade of experience mostly focused on backend and infrastructure. Prior to Gruntwork, she worked at Elastic (where, as an SRE, she helped keep the lights on the Elastic Cloud) and Red Hat (where she worked on the OpenStack project for over five years). Originally from Serbia, Ana has lived and worked in four countries and now calls Berlin home. In her free time, she likes traveling, reading, learning about all sorts of things (currently music/piano) and going on adventures with her partner and their dogs.

Pete Emerson

Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Pete is an infrastructure / SRE / DevOps engineer with 20+ years of experience wrangling infrastructure and automating everything. Prior to Gruntwork, he has worked mostly at startups in various industries, including advertising, fitness, and fintech. In his free time, Pete likes reading out loud with his kids, playing games (Dominion is a family favorite), playing piano, and singing. For moments of Zen, he rides a motorcycle. His ranch in Oregon gives him and his family room to roam and views to enjoy.

Marija Strazdas

Principal Sales Engineer

Marija has worked in tech for over 15 years, exploring everything from managed hosting to telecommunications, from software to hardware. A passion for her is demystifying tech for the non-technical, especially security. Marija has been an advocate and public speaker for Women in Tech, working to bring disparate viewpoints to the confounding technical problems we all face. When not "tech-ing", Marija is probably reading a history book, learning a language, or inventing ridiculous nicknames for her dogs.

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