Aidan Wenzel
Global Site Reliability Engineering Lead at Hydrolix
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolAidan Wenzel is a Site Reliability Engineering leader with 10 years of experience building and operating large-scale cloud-native systems, now serving as Global SRE Lead at Hydrolix in Portland. He leads a global team supporting 100+ multi-cloud clusters, focusing on infrastructure-as-code, observability, and operational processes to drive measurable excellence. Previously he architected internal developer platforms, CI/CD ecosystems, and data pipelines at Ambassador Labs, cutting CI/CD and logging costs through pragmatic automation. Comfortable across embedded systems to distributed cloud platforms, he brings hands-on engineering curiosity—he built "Kubeception" style Kubernetes-in-Kubernetes platforms and custom self-hosted runner solutions—paired with a track record of turning developer tooling into reliable, efficient production services.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteHigh School Diploma General Studies emphasis on Science Math and Engineering, High School Diploma General Studies emphasis on Science Math and Engineering at Sandy High School
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Github Skills (59)
kubernetes10
docker10
envoyproxy10
vpn10
proxy10
ambassador10
api-gateway10
kubernetes-ingress10
minikube10
native-api10
api-management9
tunnel9
openshift9
cloud-native9
microservices9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
datawire/infra-actions
Oct 2022 - Aug 2023
Repository for infrastructure-related GitHub Actions.
Contributions:68 reviews, 19 PRs, 87 pushes in 10 months
infrastructureartifact
CompileError745/Memory-Simulation
May 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
memoryvirtual-memorysimulationsimulatorhandling
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