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Hi, I'm Traci

Traci Kamp

Principal Software Engineer at Splunk, Inc

I am a passionate software engineer with 8 years of industry experience. I mostly build backend services for the cloud, on AWS or GCP.

Sometimes I build silly things like mockbob, or work on frontend projects when I want something different.

Outside work I like to read and play video games. I also like to budget and I’m passionate about taking control of my personal finances.

Hashicorp Terraform
AWS
Golang
Python
Kubernetes
Linux

Skills

Experiences

1
Splunk

Apr 2021 - Present, Remote - AZ

Principal Software Engineer

Sept 2024 - Present

    Senior Software Engineer

    Apr 2021 - Sept 2024

    • Define, build and maintain customer infrastructure across AWS and GCP with Terraform for the Splunk Enterprise Cloud offering.
    • Designed and developed highly efficient, scalable and resilient cloud provisioning services used by customers to administer and maintain their Splunk Enterprise Cloud deployment.
    • Developed and deployed in-demand infrastructure-based features across multiple cloud providers, including Enterprise Managed Encryption Keys.
    • Founded and chair the Terraform Language Committee, where I lead a team of other engineers through developing and maintaining the company style guide.
    State Farm

    May 2015 - Apr 2021, Tempe AZ

    Technology Engineer - SRE

    Jan 2020 - Apr 2021

    • Implemented an enterprise-wide monitoring and alerting platform for critical business applications that reduced incident detection and recovery time from two hours to ten minutes.
    • Created and advocated for an internal observability framework, LATTES, to create a common and standard dashboarding experience for internal product teams to better monitor the SLOs and SLIs of the services they own and support.
    • Designed and executed chaos attacks against internal services to reproduce and correct production instability.
    Software Developer - Cloud Infrastructure

    Jun 2018 - Dec 2019

    • Designed and implemented the infrastructure as code best practices and tooling for internal teams building infrastructure in AWS.
    • Led a team of other engineers to build and maintain a cloud-based development and hosting platform for business critical software.
    • Guided engineering teams working with the platform to ensure they were building high-quality, resilient, scalable and secure solutions.
    • Administered nine multi-tenant kubernetes clusters, including automation, backups, disaster recovery and quality-of-life enhancements.
    Software Developer - Enterprise Applications

    May 2015 - May 2017

    • Maintainted a commercial vehicle quoting application used by 19,000 State Farm agents nation-wide
    • Modernized a legacy technology stack to transform a manual, paper-based process into a well-rounded digital experience
    • Increased development throughput and quality through CI/CD adoption, modern development practices and tooling
    2

    Projects

    Terraform Provider Validation
    Lead Engineer

    A pure Terraform provider that allows module developers to perform validations across multiple inputs and contexts.

    hobby terraform golang
    Details
    mockbob
    Lead Engineer

    A Golang CLI that makes input text lOoK lIkE tHiS

    hobby golang
    Details
    litter-exporter
    Lead Engineer

    A Prometheus exporter for the Litter Robot 3 connect

    hobby fun golang prometheus prometheus-exporter docker
    Details

    Education

    Blackburn College
    2010-2015
    B.A. in Computer Science
    Taken Courses
    • Data Structures and Algorithms
    • Software Engineering
    • Operating Systems
    • Networking
    • Information Security

    Publications

    Terraform Provider Validation
    Medium Oct 2022
    Traci Kamp

    An overview of how to use the provider and why it was necessary to build.

    terraform
    Details

    Accomplishments

    AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
    Amazon Web Services December 2019