Andrew Rynhard
Chief Executive Officer at Naturl Audio
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Rynhard is a seasoned Site Reliability and platform engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native systems, now serving as CEO of Naturl Audio after a multi-year CTO role at Sidero Labs. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Go, Kubernetes, Linux, and AWS, and a track record of improving build and deployment processes—evidenced by contributions to the bootkube project where he modernized dependency management and stabilized cluster components. Based in Austin, he blends technical rigor from a physics background with practical operational instincts to drive resilient infrastructure and developer productivity. Known for bridging engineering and executive priorities, he scales teams and platforms while still engaging in low-level systems work.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science, Physics, Associate of Science, Physics at Mission CollegeBachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics at UC Santa BarbaraBachelor of Science, Physics, Bachelor of Science, Physics at University of California
Github Skills (13)
cluster-api10
automation10
kubernetes10
automations10
go10
automation-testing10
k8s10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
kr8s10
lifecycle10
dockers9
docker9
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-retired/bootkube
Oct 2019 - Apr 2020
This project now lives at https://github.com/kinvolk/bootkube
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:14 commits, 11 PRs, 110 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on updating and maintaining the project's build and deployment processes. They integrated go modules and managed dependencies, updating import paths and configurations. Their work involved enabling the aggregation layer and modifying API server flags to ensure proper functionality. They also addressed issues related to scheduling by modifying static manifests and removing node selectors, which improved stability.
vmskinvolkk8s-sig-cluster-lifecyclekuberneteskubernetes-setup
alterant/alterant
Nov 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:8 releases, 33 PRs, 41 pushes in 8 months
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