Ryler Hockenbury
Software Development Director at Mastercard Data & Services
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolRyler Hockenbury is a software development director at Mastercard Data & Services, guiding teams to turn data, technology, and people into competitive digital capabilities. Based in Virginia with 11 years of experience, he leads efforts to deliver cloud-native, data-driven software at scale. He is an active DevOps engineer and open-source contributor, with hands-on work on kubespray for deploying production-ready Kubernetes clusters, including Ansible-based deployments, node selectors, CoreDNS, kube-proxy, and Azure configuration tweaks. His work spans serverless, cloud, and agile practices, and he maintains a blog sharing insights on DevOps, productivity, and automation. He holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Penn State and an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon, reflecting a strong foundation in rigorous engineering and problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
Carnegie Mellon University
Stackoverflow
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ansible
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Github Skills (24)
kubernetes10
cloud-infrastructure10
infrastructure10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
kubernetes-pod10
dockerce9
dockers9
docker9
yaml9
azure8
microsoft-azure8
high-availability7
jenkins6
jenkins-pipeline6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/kubespray
Nov 2018 - Jan 2021
Deploy a Production Ready Kubernetes Cluster
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:13 commits, 14 PRs, 70 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ryler primarily focused on configuring and adapting the Kubernetes cluster deployment using Ansible. Their contributions involved applying node selectors and other configurations to various deployments like CoreDNS, kube-proxy, and others, ensuring compatibility and optimal performance on Linux nodes. They also introduced a namespace for netchecker and updated the Azure cloud config. Furthermore, they made changes to the deployment of the metrics server resizer addon.
bare-metalkubesprayhelmproduction-readyansible
rhockenbury/homebridge-ecowitt-weather-sensors
Aug 2024 - Mar 2025
Homebridge support for your Fine Offset weather station (Ecowitt, Ambient, Froggit, GoGen, and more)
Contributions:19 releases, 62 PRs, 92 pushes in 6 months
ambient-weatherecowittecowitt-devicesfine-offsetfroggit
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