Alysha Gardner
Principal DevOps Engineer at Redis
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAlysha Gardner is a Principal DevOps Engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure for data-intensive platforms. Currently at Redis after senior roles at Decodable and Confluent, she has led efforts to migrate and optimize large-scale SaaS control planes, reduce cluster startup times, and enable enterprise BYOC deployments. Her background spans cloud platforms (GKE, EKS, AWS MSK), cost and performance optimization, and developer productivity improvements, with hands-on experience delivering customer-facing networking features like PrivateLink. An active open-source contributor, she has improved backend telemetry and integrations in notable projects such as Pachyderm and Falcosidekick, adding metrics, GZIP support, and richer notification formats. She combines technical leadership and customer-facing POC work, and—less obvious—brings a track record of turning early Kubernetes experiments into production-grade microservices used at scale.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BASc Computer Engineering, BASc Computer Engineering at University of Ottawa
Github Skills (16)
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kubernetes10
docker10
go10
statsd10
dockers10
metric10
kubernetes-pods10
grpc9
security9
api8
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command-line8
cli8
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
pachyderm/pachyderm
Apr 2020 - Jul 2021
Data-Centric Pipelines and Data Versioning
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 release, 422 reviews, 422 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Alysha made several contributions to the backend of the Pachyderm project, including implementing support for metrics and adding a configurable endpoint for metrics. They also refactored the code to support multiple targets for metrics and support for GZIP compression. Furthermore, they added features like command execution enhancements and user-friendly messages and code for the Pachctl shell.
data-versioninggopachydermdockeranalytics
falcosecurity/falcosidekick
Sep 2019 - Oct 2019
Connect Falco to your ecosystem
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 5 comments in 21 days
Contributions summary:Alysha primarily contributed to enhancing the functionality of Falcosidekick, focusing on integrating with different notification and metric systems. They added support for Slack message formatting, allowing for more customized output. They also introduced support for StatsD metrics, integrating with the monitoring system. Furthermore, the user addressed code quality by correcting issues and handling unknown priority levels, ensuring more stable and reliable performance.
falco-eventsecuritydockerfalcokubernetes
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