Cydnee Owens
Software Engineer II at Meltwater
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCydnee Owens is a Software Engineer II based in Mountain View with five years of hands-on experience building and hardening cloud-native systems and web applications. She’s contributed to Kubernetes tooling at Fairwinds—expanding test coverage for the widely used Polaris validator—and has applied TDD with Go as well as backend work in Ruby on Rails and frontend touches with Vue.js. At Meltwater she’s supported core platform services including CI/CD, cloud connectivity, SSO, and infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, Prometheus, and Kubernetes, demonstrating strong operational and SRE-minded instincts. She also brings teaching experience as a backend engineering TA and a background translating complex domain rules into production systems from earlier roles in healthcare implementations. Bilingual and detail-oriented, she blends testing-first development with practical experience migrating and standardizing mission-critical systems.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Spanish Language and Literature, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Spanish Language and Literature at Colorado State UniversityCertficate, Nurse Aide, Certficate, Nurse Aide at Front Range Community CollegeData Science, Data Science at Data Science for All by Correlation OneBack-end Software Engineering, Back-end Software Engineering at Turing School of Software & DesignBachelor's of Art, Spanish Language and Literature, Bachelor's of Art, Spanish Language and Literature at Franklin University Switzerland
English, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
kubernetes10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
testing10
guideline9
audit8
auditing8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
FairwindsOps/polaris
Apr 2021 - Jun 2021
Validation of best practices in your Kubernetes clusters
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:18 commits, 22 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Cydnee primarily focused on writing and expanding test coverage for the project. Their contributions included adding tests for helper methods within the dashboard package. Further, they developed and added tests, specifically at the pod level, for the `notReadOnlyRootFilesystem` check. The user's work ensures better code quality and stability within the Polaris Kubernetes validation tool.
fairwinds-officialopavalidationauditclusters
cowens87/rock_paper_scissors
Jan 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 100 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
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