Casey Wylie
Software Engineering Lead at Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
Miami, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolCase Wylie is a Miami-based software engineering lead with eight years of experience building cloud-native systems, specializing in Kubernetes controllers, operators, informers, and admission/webhook patterns. Currently leading Pepr at Defense Unicorns, he owns product roadmap, team delivery, and open-source integrations that span hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Previously a Principal Engineer at Red Hat and practitioner at solo.io, he brings deep production experience with Go, service meshes (Istio/Envoy), observability (OpenTelemetry/Prometheus), and GitOps automation. Case combines hands-on coding with architectural leadership—designing scalable, secure data and platform tooling that prioritize performance and compliance. He also organizes Cloud Native South Florida, translating local community insights into practical hiring and collaboration advantages. A pragmatic polyglot developer, he pairs backend systems expertise with front-end and pipeline work, enabling end-to-end delivery in complex distributed environments.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Spanish, English
Github Skills (131)
api-management10
devsecops10
golang-cli10
controller10
caching-strategies10
sbom10
cosign10
scheduling10
docker-registry10
serverless10
kong10
microservices10
cloud-native10
k8s10
patternfly10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
RHEcosystemAppEng/kong-discovery
Mar 2022 - Jun 2022
Kong on OpenShift
Contributions:1 review, 54 commits, 6 PRs in 2 months
kongkubernetesopenshift
defenseunicorns/pepr-excellent-examples
Nov 2023 - Apr 2025
Welcome to the Pepr Examples Repository!
Contributions:67 reviews, 104 PRs, 172 pushes in 1 year 5 months
admission-controlleradmission-webhookdefense-unicorns-preservekubernetestypescript
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