Samuel Dowell
Software Engineer at Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarSamuel Dowell is a software engineer with 12 years of experience focused on Kubernetes and cloud-native tooling, currently contributing to Google Cloud Platform. He is an active open-source contributor to flagship Kubernetes projects like kustomize and kpt, where he added annotation/label filters, mutation tracking support, CLI autocompletion refactors, and even a Go vanity server—work that improves traceability and developer UX. His career spans backend systems, test automation, and full-stack CLI tooling, with prior roles implementing OIDC auth, malware-scanning services, scalable backend APIs, and PCR instrument parsers. Based in Sunnyvale, he combines pragmatic engineering with a strong emphasis on observability and reproducible configuration workflows.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (20)
kpt10
kubernetes10
dockerce10
docker10
testing10
kustomize10
configuration-management10
kubectl10
dockers10
go10
k8s10
cli10
kubernetes-pod10
bash9
automated-tests9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kptdev/kpt
Dec 2021 - Aug 2022
Automate Kubernetes Configuration Editing
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 31 reviews, 11 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily focused on enhancing the kpt CLI and its autocompletion features, incorporating updates for function catalog versions. They implemented fixes for bash auto-completion, improving the user experience. The user also refactored the CLI's autocompletion, transitioning to Cobra-based implementation, and added a go vanity server. Additionally, they contributed towards ensuring the correct output of function stderr and ensuring the correct packaging of licenses.
kubernetes-configurationshift-leftpolicy-as-codeconfig-as-datakrm
kubernetes-sigs/kustomize
Nov 2021 - Jan 2022
Customization of kubernetes YAML configurations
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 12 commits, 11 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily contributed to the kustomize project by implementing new features within the annotation and label filters. These features included adding configurable callbacks for tracking annotations and labels. Additionally, the user added a sort method to the results for the kyaml fn framework. The user also implemented the TrackableFilter interface for several filters, including annotations, labels, imagetag, namespace, replicacount, prefix, and suffix filters, and added mutation tracker support.
yamlcuelangkubectlkuberneteskubelet
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