Clint Kitson
VSphere Kubernetes Distribution Lead At VMware By Broadcom
California, United States
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Top SchoolClint Kitson is a cloud-native engineering leader with 14 years of experience building Kubernetes platforms and storage integrations, currently leading the vSphere Kubernetes Distribution effort at VMware by Broadcom. He previously directed Tanzu Kubernetes Grid engineering and has served on the CNCF Governing Board, blending product strategy with deep open-source engagement. A hands-on technologist, his GitHub contributions to REX-Ray show backend work on container storage orchestration and Docker volume management—an indicator of practical storage and persistence expertise. Based in California, he pairs business economics training with executive education from Stanford GSB to align engineering teams to market and customer needs. Colleagues rely on him for translating complex cloud-native problems into operational platforms that scale in enterprise environments.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Managing Teams for Innovation and Success, Managing Teams for Innovation and Success at Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive EducationBA Business Economics and Accounting, BA Business Economics and Accounting at UC Santa Barbara
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Github Skills (13)
management10
command-line-interface10
storage10
go10
driver10
backend10
volumes10
back-end-development10
cobra10
command-line10
cli10
dockers9
docker9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rexray/rexray
Apr 2015 - Jun 2016
REX-Ray is a container storage orchestration engine enabling persistence for cloud native workloads
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 197 commits, 151 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Clint primarily focused on developing the backend functionality for the REX-Ray project, evidenced by the addition of command-line interface features and functions for storage operations. The commits reveal the implementation of volume management and manipulation by name, alongside the modification of driver interfaces. Furthermore, tests were added that demonstrate the user's involvement in ensuring the functionality of implemented storage-related features. The user also added support for the Docker platform and associated changes to enable the integration of volumes.
containersgolangrayorchestrationrex
thecodeteam/puppet-scaleio
Nov 2014 - Feb 2018
Contributions:1 release, 10 commits, 3 PRs in 3 years 3 months
data-servicespuppetinstallingpuppet-modulescaleio
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