Cailyn Edwards
SIG-Security Co-Chair at Okta
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolCailyn Edwards is a senior security engineer and SIG-Security co-chair at Kubernetes with nine years of experience securing cloud-native infrastructure and networking. She has driven infrastructure security at Shopify and now brings that expertise to Okta while contributing upstream to Kubernetes projects like kustomize, where she improved dependency management and build processes. Comfortable across low-level systems and cloud networking, she blends hands-on DevOps and backend development skills with open-source stewardship. Based in Ottawa, she pairs technical rigor with an outdoorsy, hands-in-the-dirt background in horticulture and small-scale farming, a perspective that informs her pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to security.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Horticulture, Diploma Horticulture at University of Guelph Kemptville CampusFull Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCampThe Web Developer Boot Camp Computer Programming, The Web Developer Boot Camp Computer Programming at UdemyCertificate Intro to Javascript, Certificate Intro to Javascript at Lambda School BCS Computer Science, BCS Computer Science at Carleton University
Github Skills (9)
kubernetes10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
dependency-management9
cli8
cicd8
k8s8
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/kustomize
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Customization of kubernetes YAML configurations
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:25 reviews, 3 commits, 9 PRs in 9 days
Contributions summary:Cailyn primarily focused on improving the kustomize project's codebase and build processes. They refactored core functionalities, such as removing dependencies and improving how environment variables were handled. Moreover, the user updated versioning, improving output details and the build process through ldflags and git commit integration. These changes reflect a focus on code quality, dependency management, and build process enhancements.
yamlcuelangkubectlkuberneteskubelet
cailynse/kubernetes
Sep 2022 - Mar 2023
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
Contributions:30 pushes, 4 branches in 6 months
containersschedulingdockergradeproduction-grade
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