Cody Vandermyn
SDE II at Amazon
Kenmore, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCody Vandermyn is a seasoned software engineer with 12+ years of experience and a 15+-year iOS background who now works as an SDE II at Amazon after senior platform and mobile roles at Capital One, Lyft, and Nordstrom. He blends deep iOS expertise—leading large rewrites, managing hundreds of modules, and cutting PR build times—with cloud-native and security-focused work, including significant contributions to Linkerd2’s CNI plugin and security configurations. Cody has a strong track record of improving developer productivity and CI reliability, from introducing snapshot testing and custom tooling at Lyft to migrating builds to Bazel at Capital One. He’s comfortable across the stack: mobile app architecture, Terraform/Packer automation, CI on macOS in AWS, and Kubernetes service-mesh integration. He pairs technical leadership with hands-on engineering and mentorship, having led large teams and driven processes like TDD and pair programming. Trained in physics and astronautics, he brings a systems-minded, data-driven approach to solving large-scale engineering and operational problems.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master's of Science Astronautics, Master's of Science Astronautics at University of Southern CaliforniaB.S. Astronomy, B.S. Astronomy at University of Washington
Github Skills (14)
service-mesh10
kubernetes10
cni10
plug10
go10
plugin10
kubernetes-pods10
dockers9
iptables9
docker9
automation8
automations8
cicd8
rbac7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
linkerd/linkerd2
Dec 2018 - Jul 2019
Ultralight, security-first service mesh for Kubernetes. Main repo for Linkerd 2.x.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Security Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Security EngineerContributions:10 commits, 14 PRs, 91 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Cody's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the security and operational aspects of the Linkerd2 service mesh. They implemented and refined security configurations, including setting user IDs and security contexts for various components. The user also worked on improving the CNI plugin by adding features and fixing the integration test. Additionally, they made modifications related to logging levels and CNI configuration, demonstrating a focus on the project's deployment and operational aspects.
golangmesh2-xrustsecurity
Nordstrom/linkerd2
Jan 2019 - Feb 2020
A service mesh for Kubernetes and beyond. Main repo for Linkerd 2.x.
Contributions:3 PRs, 121 pushes, 30 branches in 1 year 1 month
mesh2-xmain-repokuberneteslinkerd
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