Ava Hahn
Software Engineer - XC Volterra at F5
Auburn, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAva Hahn is a software engineer with four years of experience building cloud-native networking and proxy systems, currently contributing to XC Volterra at F5. She has strong backend and automation skills demonstrated by work on Emissary-ingress (an open-source Kubernetes API gateway) where she added configuration tests, CI improvements, and chart deployment automation. Ava has practical systems experience across Go, C/C++, Python, and Rust bindings, and has worked on traffic management, mTLS, multi-arch builds, and dynamically linked dataplane modules. Comfortable across Kubernetes and AWS environments, she combines hands-on implementation with deployment and release engineering. Colleagues know her as a curious lifelong learner who seeks opportunities to prototype unusual dataplane ideas and improve developer workflows.
4 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Associate’s Degree, Information Technology and Applications Development, 3.59, Associate’s Degree, Information Technology and Applications Development, 3.59 at Lake Washington Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, 3.58, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, 3.58 at University of Washington Bothell
Github Skills (16)
gnu-make10
pytest10
makefile10
python10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods9
automation-testing9
api-gateway9
automation9
automations9
kubernetes9
docker8
env8
convoy8
dockers8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
emissary-ingress/emissary
Jul 2021 - Mar 2022
open source Kubernetes-native API gateway for microservices built on the Envoy Proxy
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:4 releases, 102 reviews, 383 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Ava contributed significantly to the configuration and testing of the Emissary-ingress project. They added tests related to configuration generation and API mapping, utilizing Python and the pytest framework. Furthermore, the user made changes to the build system and related Makefiles, updating dependencies and configuring the environment. They also addressed issues with the chart deployment, focusing on the automation and release processes.
api-gatewayproxyreverse-proxyambassadorapi-management
aidanhahn/emissary
Aug 2021 - Jan 2022
open source Kubernetes-native API gateway for microservices built on the Envoy Proxy
Contributions:10 releases, 45 PRs, 79 pushes in 4 months
api-gatewayapienvoy-proxyenvoyproxy
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