Alice Wasko
Senior Software Engineer at ngrok
Gresham, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolAlice Wasko is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience specializing in backend systems, ingress controllers, reverse proxies, and developer tooling. As a maintainer of Emissary-ingress and Envoy Gateway she has driven feature work, performance improvements, and releases for widely used open-source projects built on Envoy Proxy, and regularly speaks about them at KubeCon. Her contributions span core API gateway functionality, DevOps and build automation, and adding advanced request/response filters and health checks that improve real-world reliability and operability. Alice moves fluidly between coding, maintenance, and user-facing collaboration, enjoying direct engagement with users to shape product direction. Based in Gresham, Oregon, she recently joined ngrok after several progressive engineering roles at Ambassador Labs, bringing deep production experience in cloud-native networking.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Oregon State University
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Github Skills (22)
env10
apim10
kubernetes10
docker10
envoyproxy10
api-design10
testing10
ca-api-gateway10
go-testing10
dockers10
aws-apigateway10
amazon-api-gateway10
go10
api10
gateway10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
envoyproxy/gateway
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Manages Envoy Proxy as a Standalone or Kubernetes-based Application Gateway
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:300 reviews, 12 commits, 65 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Alice primarily focused on extending the functionality of the Envoy Gateway by implementing features such as request redirect and request/response header modifiers, and request mirror filters. Their contributions involved modifying Go code within the `internal/gatewayapi` and `internal/xds` directories to support these filters. They also added associated tests and updated manifests. Additionally, the user addressed issues related to invalid backends and cross-namespace references.
envoy-proxyenvoyproxyapplication-gatewaystandalone
emissary-ingress/emissary
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
open source Kubernetes-native API gateway for microservices built on the Envoy Proxy
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:347 reviews, 348 commits, 171 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Alice contributed to the Envoy-based API gateway, focusing on both backend code improvements and DevOps tasks. They merged release branches, updated dependencies, and addressed broken links in documentation, indicating a role in maintenance and improvement. Moreover, they modified build scripts, added support for runtime flags, and integrated health check configurations, demonstrating involvement in infrastructure and system management. The user's contributions spanned multiple files and involved core aspects of API gateway functionality and deployment.
api-gatewayproxyreverse-proxyambassadorapi-management
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