Chad Swenson
Lead Software Engineer at AT&T
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChad Swenson is a Lead Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale, multitenant Kubernetes platforms at AT&T, where he designs and supports the CDP Runtime that hosts thousands of microservices. A generalist and relentless tinkerer, he is an active open-source maintainer of kubespray, contributing production-grade cluster configuration, networking and lifecycle fixes used widely across Kubernetes deployments. He blends hands-on engineering—from Android and full‑stack apps to infrastructure automation—with technical leadership as a coach, conference speaker, and internal curriculum creator for thousands of developers. An early hackathon and innovation contest winner, Chad pairs product-minded creativity (his Dice Hero app won a $150k prize) with deep systems expertise, making him equally comfortable shipping user-facing features or optimizing cluster internals.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington
Github Skills (15)
kubernetes10
ansible-galaxy10
docker10
cloud-infrastructure10
infrastructure10
dockers10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
ansible10
flannel9
networking8
cicd7
bash6
kubeadm5
calico4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/kubespray
Oct 2016 - Dec 2022
Deploy a Production Ready Kubernetes Cluster
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:21 reviews, 109 commits, 135 PRs in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Chad primarily contributed to infrastructure and configuration management within the Kubernetes cluster deployment. They made significant changes to Docker service definitions, Kubernetes manifests, and configuration files related to networking plugins like Flannel. The user also updated the Kubernetes dashboard configuration, demonstrating an understanding of deployment and service management within a Kubernetes environment. Furthermore, the user implemented enhancements and fixes for various Kubernetes components, showcasing expertise in cluster configuration and lifecycle management.
bare-metalkubesprayhelmproduction-readyansible
chadswen/kargo
Oct 2016 - Apr 2025
Setup a kubernetes cluster with Ansible
Contributions:167 pushes, 97 branches, 1 tag in 8 years 7 months
vagrantansiblek8skuberneteskubernetes-cluster
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