Carol Valencia
Technical Lead TAG Operational Resilience
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolCarol Valencia is a Technical Lead in TAG Operational Resilience with 11 years of experience building secure, scalable cloud-native systems and guiding community-driven standards at the CNCF. Based in São Paulo, she blends hands-on engineering—AWS, Kubernetes, SRE/DevOps, and infrastructure automation—with thought leadership from roles at Elastic and Aqua Security. An active open-source contributor and CNCF Ambassador, Carol has improved Kubernetes tooling and documentation (notably contributions to starboard/trivy-operator scheduling and kube-bench distribution) and mentors new maintainers across projects. Her background in computational physics informs a methodical, security-first approach to complex operational problems, and she frequently translates that into talks, blogs and cross-project collaboration that bridge practitioners and governance.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computational Physics, Master’s Degree, Computational Physics at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
Spanish, Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (15)
html10
kubernetes10
go10
cloud-native10
documentation10
kubernetes-pods10
security10
dockers9
devops9
content-management9
translation9
docker9
content-management-system9
automations8
automation8
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
aquasecurity/starboard
Jun 2020 - Mar 2022
Moved to https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy-operator
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 21 commits, 20 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Carol's contributions primarily centered on enhancing the resource management and scheduling aspects within the Starboard project. They implemented features to define resource requests and limits for scan jobs, optimizing their performance. Furthermore, the user modified the codebase to schedule kube-bench jobs across all nodes in the Kubernetes cluster, indicating a focus on infrastructure and operational efficiency. Additionally, the user addressed issues related to namespace termination during cleanup, demonstrating expertise in the project's lifecycle management.
securitycustom-resource-definitionoperatortrivystarboard
kubernetes/website
Feb 2021 - Dec 2022
Kubernetes website and documentation repo:
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:1 release, 69 reviews, 42 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Carol primarily contributed to the documentation of the Kubernetes website. Their changes include updates to case studies, such as the NetEase case study, and translations of content to different languages like Portuguese and French. They also generated reference documentation for Kubernetes API versions and made minor updates to the site's layout, suggesting a focus on content management and information presentation.
kubernetes
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