Andy Suderman
Chief Technology Officer at Fairwinds
Divide, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Suderman is a cloud-native technology leader and Chief Technology Officer with 11+ years of hands-on experience building and operating Kubernetes, container, and cloud platforms. At Fairwinds he progressed through engineering and R&D leadership to the CTO role, shepherding scalable, secure systems while contributing to notable open-source Kubernetes tooling such as pluto and goldilocks. He combines deep Go and DevOps expertise—implementing VPAs, CI/CD automation, and Kubernetes operators—with multi-cloud certifications from AWS and Google Cloud. As an advisor to startups, he pairs pragmatic architecture and engineering discipline with a focus on team culture and developer-friendly automation. Based in Divide, Colorado, Andy’s background in mechanical engineering and early entrepreneurial work gives him a practical, systems-oriented approach to solving complex infrastructure problems.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate Diploma, International Baccalaureate Diploma at North Canyon High SchoolBachelor of Science Engineering; Mechanical Specialty, Bachelor of Science Engineering; Mechanical Specialty at Colorado School of Mines
English
Github Skills (29)
rbac10
json10
kubernetes10
docker10
testing10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
go10
helm10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
devops10
github-ci9
command-line-interface9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
FairwindsOps/rbac-manager
May 2018 - Nov 2022
A Kubernetes operator that simplifies the management of Role Bindings and Service Accounts.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 releases, 63 reviews, 68 commits in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily contributed to the backend and infrastructure of the Kubernetes operator. They implemented features like adding MatchExpressions and fixing upgrade paths. They also updated dependencies, refactored code, and changed metrics port. Their work also included documentation and CI/CD pipeline adjustments for the project.
authorizationfairwinds-officialrbacoperatorkubernetes
FairwindsOps/pluto
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
A cli tool to help discover deprecated apiVersions in Kubernetes
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 137 reviews, 103 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Andy's initial contributions focused on setting up the foundation for the Pluto tool. They worked on detecting hard-coded `apiVersion` values within Kubernetes configuration files. The commits involve the creation of test files and the implementation of functions related to parsing both YAML and JSON manifests to identify and extract `apiVersion` information. The user's work included refactoring and updating the existing code.
discoverfairwinds-officialhelmcli-toolkubernetes
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