Chad Applegate
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChad Applegate is a Software Engineer II with seven years of hands-on experience building cloud-native infrastructure and container tooling at Microsoft, currently focused on Azure Container Registry. He has deep practical experience enabling Kubernetes and Azure CNI on Azure Stack—work reflected in contributions to the well-known AKS Engine project where he implemented Windows node support and improved DevOps and testing workflows. Prior roles include data-platform ETL work with Scala/Spark at Qualtrics and earlier internships that bridged open-source networking and container projects, giving him a blend of backend, DevOps, and data engineering skills. Based in Seattle with a BS in Computer Science from BYU, he brings a pragmatic approach to solving platform interoperability challenges and reducing operational friction across hybrid cloud environments.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (14)
kubernetes10
azure10
go10
microsoft-azure10
azurestack10
kubernetes-pods10
testing9
powershell9
docker8
cicd8
dockers8
apim6
api6
api-design6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/aks-engine
May 2019 - Jul 2019
AKS Engine: legacy tool for Kubernetes on Azure (see status)
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 commits, 9 PRs, 31 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Chad made significant contributions related to Azure Stack deployments within the AKS engine. Their work involved implementing features to support Windows node deployments on Azure Stack, including incorporating Azure Stack-specific configuration files and base64 encoding environment variables. They also focused on modifying the Azure CNI configuration for Azure Stack and updating Windows PowerShell scripts, indicating a focus on both backend configurations and DevOps aspects of the project. Furthermore, they removed dependencies on external mocking libraries, suggesting improvements to unit testing infrastructure.
containersgolangorchestrationaks-enginestatus
t-chappl/aks-engine
May 2019 - Jul 2019
AKS Engine: Units of Kubernetes on Azure!
Contributions:99 pushes, 38 branches in 2 months
aks-engineunitskubernetesazureaks
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