Christian Posta
VP, Global Field CTO at solo.io
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Posta is a seasoned cloud-native technology leader with 14+ years building scalable middleware and service mesh ecosystems, currently serving as VP, Global Field CTO at Solo.io. He combines hands-on engineering, pre/post-sales consultancy, and developer advocacy to help organizations adopt and operate modern service meshes and API gateways. A long-time Apache committer and Istio steering committee member, he brings deep expertise in messaging (ActiveMQ), integrations (Camel, Karaf), and build/release automation. Christian’s open-source contributions span high-profile projects like Istio and Fabric8, reflecting a focus on reliability, deployment automation, and platform stability. Based in Phoenix, he pairs enterprise experience from Red Hat and major financial and education clients with a knack for translating complex distributed-systems problems into practical operational patterns.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Systems Engineering, Bachelor Computer Systems Engineering at Arizona State UniversityThe University of Utah
Github Skills (47)
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kubernetes10
brokers10
docker10
jms10
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messaging10
scripting10
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microservices-application10
broker10
dockers10
cicd10
java10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
kgateway-dev/kgateway
Jan 2019 - Apr 2020
The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 32 commits, 35 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Christian primarily focused on improving the functionality and maintainability of the Gloo API Gateway. They addressed various issues, including fixing spelling errors, resolving GCP login problems, and incorporating Kubernetes authentication plugins. Additionally, the user made changes to the CLI and helm charts for improved user experience and deployment flexibility, including updating dependencies. The user also made changes to fix auto host rewrite functionality.
api-gatewayfeature-richgrpcserverlesslegacy-apps
istio/istio
Mar 2017 - Jun 2022
Connect, secure, control, and observe services.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:18 commits, 16 PRs, 126 comments in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Christian's commits primarily focus on modifying build and deployment scripts within the Istio project. They addressed issues related to dependency management, specifically the `dep` tool, and created the functionality to generate individual component files for Istio installations. Further contributions involved updating versioning and helm configurations, indicating a focus on automation and build processes. The user also improved installation scripts and corrected file names, which further suggests expertise in build and release engineering.
circuit-breakerenforce-policiesistioapi-managementmicroservice
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