Chris Kim
Staff Software Engineer at SUSE
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Kim is a Staff Software Engineer with eight years of experience specializing in cloud-native infrastructure, containerization, and Kubernetes lifecycle automation. Based in Sunnyvale and now at SUSE following the Rancher acquisition, he has deep operational experience contributing to flagship projects like RKE, RKE2 and K3s—improving installability, upgrade/uninstall flows, and control-plane deployments. He combines DevOps and backend engineering skills to streamline cluster management, from RPM-based installers and SELinux policies to etcd member controllers and cloud-controller-manager static pods. Practical and detail-oriented, he focuses on making complex orchestration reliable and automatable, with a track record of shipping pragmatic fixes that keep large-scale container platforms stable.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Virginia
Github Skills (29)
network-configuration10
ingress-controller10
rke10
kubernetes10
docker10
scripting10
cloud-infrastructure10
containerization10
dockers10
infrastructure-management10
cicd10
automation10
script10
infrastructure10
go10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
rancher/rancher
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
Complete container management platform
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:563 reviews, 167 commits, 355 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Chris's commits primarily focused on updating dependencies, specifically within the context of Kubernetes and container management. They were responsible for integrating changes from the RKE (Rancher Kubernetes Engine) codebase, indicating involvement in managing and maintaining components related to container orchestration. They also made updates to configuration files and incorporated changes related to various service deployments. The user's work contributed to the overall stability and upkeep of the Rancher container management platform.
containersorchestrationdockerrancherkubernetes
rancher/rke2
Jul 2020 - Jan 2022
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:19 releases, 128 reviews, 85 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Chris's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing the RKE2 installation process and cloud infrastructure management. They modified the install script to improve RPM package handling, including features for channel selection and version management. Additionally, the user implemented support for cloud-controller-manager static pod deployments, indicating involvement in managing the control plane components within the Kubernetes environment. These modifications highlight a focus on automating deployment and managing Kubernetes cluster infrastructure.
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