Bridget Mcerlean
Senior Software Engineer at lakeFS
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBridget Mcerlean is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native tooling, CI/CD systems, and developer workflows from Waterloo, Ontario. She has been a core maintainer on high-profile open-source Kubernetes projects like Velero and Sonobuoy, improving backup/restore, plugin infrastructure, and release automation across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Her background spans full-stack product work and deep DevOps automation—shipping Stacksmith cloud migration features at Bitnami and designing Jenkins- and Ansible-driven test pipelines at ClusterHQ. Bridget pairs production-grade engineering with community engagement, helping translate contributor and customer feedback into product direction and secure release practices. Known for removing global state, adding robust config validation, and streamlining developer workflows (e.g., Delve-enabled builds and Tilt improvements), she focuses on making complex distributed systems more reliable and easy to iterate on. She holds an MEng in Computer Science from the University of Bristol and brings a practical, test-driven approach to large-scale infrastructure challenges.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng), Computer Science, Master of Engineering (MEng), Computer Science at University of Bristol
Github Skills (28)
kubernetes10
docker10
github10
groovy10
plugin-development10
bash10
build-system10
dockers10
cicd10
release-management10
automation10
go10
ci-cd-pipeline10
kubernetes-pods10
jenkins10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
vmware-tanzu/velero
Sep 2020 - Jan 2022
Backup and migrate Kubernetes applications and their persistent volumes
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:7 releases, 477 reviews, 75 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Bridget primarily contributed to the project by enhancing the build and release process for the Velero project. Their work included modifying the build scripts to support debugging with Delve and streamlining the download process for the restic binary, improving the efficiency of the Tilt-based development workflow. Additionally, they made changes to the release process, improving the flexibility and configurability of the release scripts.
velerovolumeskubernetes-applicationspersistent-volumesdata-protection
vmware-tanzu/sonobuoy
Jun 2019 - Aug 2020
Sonobuoy is a diagnostic tool that makes it easier to understand the state of a Kubernetes cluster by running a set of Kubernetes conformance tests and other plugins in an accessible and non-destructive manner.
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:90 commits, 178 PRs, 84 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Bridget primarily focused on refactoring and improving the Sonobuoy codebase. They applied Go code formatting, implemented config validation, and prepared for releases by updating the version number and including new images. Furthermore, the user made significant improvements to the plugin infrastructure including allowing per plugin cleanup, ensuring the ConfigMap for plugins always exists, generating UUIDs for configs and setting owner references on plugin resources. They also refactored parts of the project to remove dependencies on global state and consolidated the image management.
bugreportdiagnostick8smannerdiagnostic-tool
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