Cameron Mcavoy
Staff Software Engineer at Indeed.com
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolCameron Mcavoy is a Staff Software Engineer based in Austin with a decade of experience building and operating cloud-native platforms, currently shaping Indeed’s compute platform and Kubernetes clusters. He is a hands-on systems engineer who codes primarily in Go, debugs Java backends, and occasionally contributes front-end React, blending platform reliability with developer ergonomics. His background includes leading DevOps-focused teams at IBM and contributing notable enhancements to kured, the Kubernetes reboot daemon, improving drain behavior and error handling. Cameron maintains active involvement in open source—authoring Java and Lua projects—and brings a rare combination of mathematical training and meteorology-informed analytics to infrastructure problems. Practical, detail-oriented, and community-minded, he thrives on improving automation and resilience at scale.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics and Computer Science; Meteorology, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics and Computer Science; Meteorology at Central Michigan University
English
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Github Skills (10)
kubernetes10
go10
devops10
kubernetes-pods10
docker8
error-handling8
dockers8
command-line7
cli7
command-line-interface7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
kubereboot/kured
Dec 2020 - Apr 2021
Kubernetes Reboot Daemon
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 7 commits, 4 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Cameron primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and robustness of the Kubernetes Reboot Daemon. Their contributions included implementing features for force-reboot and drain timeouts. The user also refactored existing code and exposed new parameters to control the behavior of the drain process, improving its flexibility. Furthermore, they addressed error handling and updated the configuration of the daemon within its Kubernetes deployment.
daemonkuberneteskuredreboot
indeedeng/harbor-container-webhook
Oct 2020 - Oct 2022
mutating webhook which rewrites container images to use a Harbor proxy cache
Contributions:6 releases, 48 commits, 14 PRs in 2 years
containersrewritesmutatingproxycache-proxy
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