Amim Knabben
Principal Software Engineer at Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
Santa Catarina, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolAmim Knabben is a Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of experience designing production-ready hybrid Kubernetes platforms at Broadcom and a strong background in cloud-native infrastructure. He has deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes internals and CNI ecosystems, contributing to high-profile projects like kubernetes/kubernetes, cluster-api, controller-runtime and the Tanzu framework—work that includes Kubelet flag/config migrations, Antrea CNI enhancements, and cleanup of deprecated cluster-api features. A former tech lead at VMware and CNCF Ambassador, he blends product-focused engineering with community leadership, having co-founded regional Kubernetes Community Days and led SIG Windows efforts. His cross-disciplinary training in AI/ML, cloud computing and strategic software management complements a pragmatic approach to security, compliance and large-scale system reliability. An interesting non-obvious detail: he pairs low-level kernel-aware Kubernetes changes with developer tooling and test-framework improvements, making both runtime behavior and contributor experience better.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Degree Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Business Applications, Postgraduate Degree Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Business Applications at Texas McCombs School of BusinessPostgraduate Degree Cloud Computing, Postgraduate Degree Cloud Computing at Centro Universitário SenacMaster's degree Strategic Management in Software Engineering, Master's degree Strategic Management in Software Engineering at Universidad Europea del AtlánticoAssociate's degree Finance and Financial Management Services, Associate's degree Finance and Financial Management Services at Universidade do Sul de Santa CatarinaAssociate's degree Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Associate's degree Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at SENAI/SC - Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Industrial
Github Skills (24)
kubernetes10
container10
controller10
api-design10
testing10
configuration-management10
cni10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
cluster-api10
refactoring10
devops10
yaml9
automation9
error-handling9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
vmware-tanzu/tanzu-framework
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Tanzu Framework provides a set of building blocks to build atop of the Tanzu platform and leverages Carvel packaging and plugins to provide users with a much stronger, more integrated experience than the loose coupling and stand-alone commands of the previous generation of tools.
Role in this project:
DevOps & Backend Engineer
DevOps & Backend EngineerContributions:63 reviews, 37 commits, 61 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Amim primarily contributed to the Antrea CNI configuration and related components, focusing on features like flow exporters, and various configurations. They worked on updating Antrea versions and fixing CRD generation issues. Additionally, the user made changes related to TKG client, specifically around machine deployment worker distribution, which involved changes to config files, and the validation process.
carvelbuilding-blocksintegratedleveragesstand
kubernetes/kubernetes
Apr 2020 - Oct 2022
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:83 reviews, 44 commits, 77 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Amim contributed to the Kubelet, focusing on configuration and flag migration. They made code changes to migrate Kubelet testing flags to configuration, move flags related to server enable and provider ID, and deprecate several mount-related flags. Further, they made changes to copy `--seccomp-profile-root` to the Kubelet config file and made other adjustments regarding flags in the Kubelet configuration.
containersschedulingdockergradeproduction-grade
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