Aaron Crickenberger
Staff Test Engineer at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Crickenberger is a Staff Test Engineer at Google with 14 years of experience building resilient cloud and CI/CD systems and contributing to Kubernetes since 2015. He co-founded and leads key Kubernetes testing and infrastructure efforts—SIG Testing and WG k8s-infra—and has owned critical subprojects including Conformance Definition and GitHub Management for the project. His background spans managing production fleets (Cloud Foundry on sea vessels), cloud databases, and private clouds across hundreds of hospitals, giving him rare operational depth alongside automation expertise. Notable for hardening Kubernetes CI and test infrastructure, he has driven tooling, IAM/workload-identity improvements, and test ownership policies that improved reliability at scale. Based in Seattle, he pairs systems-level thinking with pragmatic engineering, summed up by his GitHub bio: “Pinky and the Brain, but it's Kubernetes.”
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at University of Virginia
Github Skills (39)
kubernetes10
github-ci10
scripting10
testing10
storage10
bash10
cloud-infrastructure10
terraform10
cicd10
gcp10
google-cloud-storage10
cnc10
terraformer10
automation10
script10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/community
Jan 2016 - Oct 2022
Kubernetes community content
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:80 reviews, 198 commits, 134 PRs in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily contributed to the development of the `generator` tool within the Kubernetes community content repository. Their work involved implementing subproject features, including defining data structures and validating configurations for SIGs and committees. Furthermore, the user focused on enhancing the generation process by adding validation steps and reformatting the `sigs.yaml` file to maintain consistent formatting and ensure correct output. They also created a script to generate devstats repo groups.
kuberneteskubernetes-community
kubernetes/k8s.io
Oct 2017 - Oct 2022
Code and configuration to manage Kubernetes project infrastructure, including various *.k8s.io sites
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:780 reviews, 749 commits, 295 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily worked on the infrastructure configuration and management of the Kubernetes project's infrastructure, specifically within the GCP environment. Their contributions involved fixing BigQuery-related typos and adding/configuring service accounts for auditing and security, including integrating workload identity and managing IAM policies. They also focused on ensuring the deployment and configuration of projects and resources, and refactored the project for better maintainability, including changes to the deployment scripts and use of the existing infrastructure libraries.
gcpkubernetes-deploymentveleroinfrastructuresites
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