Andrew Hay
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Hay is a Cloud Platform Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, currently focused on production-grade Kubernetes and IaC at 8am after leading platform work at Benchmark Analytics. He combines deep EKS, Terraform, and CI/CD expertise with practical Linux, Go, and Python automation to deliver secure, highly available systems that support mission-critical GovTech applications. Notably, he drove a migration from NAT Gateways to VPC Endpoints that cut roughly $120k in annual cloud costs, and he contributes to upstream open-source tooling by improving Cloudflare support in the popular external-dns project. Based in Columbus, Ohio, Andrew pairs engineering rigor with a curiosity-driven mindset—summed up on GitHub as “Just breaking things”—that fuels pragmatic experimentation and resilient operational design.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Kings High SchoolIndustrial and Systems Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Industrial Engineering at The Ohio State University
Spanish
Github Skills (12)
cloudflare-api10
kubernetes10
cloud-infrastructure10
go10
dns10
kubernetes-pods10
external-dns10
docker4
dockers4
gcp4
aws4
route533
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/external-dns
Jan 2024 - Feb 2025
Configure external DNS servers (AWS Route53, Google CloudDNS and others) for Kubernetes Ingresses and Services
Role in this project:
Back-end & Cloud Engineer
Back-end & Cloud EngineerContributions:14 reviews, 6 PRs, 40 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Andrew contributed features for Cloudflare integration within the external-dns project, adding support for regional hostnames. Their work involved modifying provider configuration, adding new API calls, and implementing tests. Additionally, they addressed issues related to Cloudflare's API, resolving permission errors and improving the overall stability of the Cloudflare integration.
gcproute53dnsexternal-dnsk8s-sig-network
AndrewCharlesHay/external-dns
Jan 2024 - Feb 2025
Configure external DNS servers (AWS Route53, Google CloudDNS and others) for Kubernetes Ingresses and Services
Contributions:1 PR, 36 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 1 month
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