Ashley Cutalo
Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb
Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAshley Cutalo is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling at companies like Airbnb and Lyft. He specializes in backend and DevOps work for large-scale systems, notably extending Lyft's open-source infrastructure platform Clutch with Kubernetes node management, protobuf services, and caching integrations. Prior roles include driving OpenStack and Spinnaker integrations at Veritas and designing cloud-agnostic provisioning layers at Cisco, reflecting a strong track record in multi-cloud and open-source ecosystems. Based in Washington, he combines deep system design skills with pragmatic operational experience and a penchant for contributing upstream to the projects he relies on. An unusual detail: he pairs a BS in Computer Science with formal violin performance training, hinting at a disciplined, creative approach to engineering.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Violin Performance, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Violin Performance at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Github Skills (12)
kubernetes10
go10
api10
apidoc10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
infrastructure-management10
kubernetes-pods10
portal9
backend8
dockers5
docker5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
lyft/clutch
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
Extensible platform for infrastructure management
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 5 commits, 8 PRs in 4 days
Contributions summary:Ashley primarily contributed to the backend of the `clutch` repository, focusing on Kubernetes-related functionalities. They implemented backend APIs for managing Kubernetes nodes, adding protobuf definitions and service implementations for node operations like describing and updating them. Furthermore, the user integrated node management features with the system's caching and resolver components. This suggests a focus on extending the platform's infrastructure management capabilities related to Kubernetes.
lyftdevopsansibleinfrastructureinfrastructure-management
lyft/kube-state-metrics
Sep 2019 - Jun 2022
Add-on agent to generate and expose cluster-level metrics.
Contributions:5 PRs, 25 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 8 months
agentobservabilityexposekubernetesprometheus
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