Cynthia Coan
Sr. Site Reliablity Engineer at Apple
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolCynthia Coan is a senior Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, high-scale cloud and networking platforms for companies like Apple, Bungie, and Stripe. She designs and deploys production-grade AWS architectures, global networking, and developer tooling while driving cost optimization and FinOps initiatives that have unlocked substantial savings. A hands-on Envoy and Kubernetes expert, Cynthia has contributed security, TLS, and logging improvements to the Emissary-ingress gateway and led upstream work on Envoy and Istio releases. She combines deep systems, deployment, and incident expertise with a passion for developer experience—creating tooling and training programs (including Bungie’s cloudPlay) to accelerate team capability. Notably comfortable translating operational realities into product-ready changes, she pairs rigorous testing and release management with an eye for maintainability and accessibility.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma Computer Software Engineering, High School Diploma Computer Software Engineering at Clearfield High School
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
env10
kubernetes10
envoyproxy10
pytest10
python10
testing10
api-gateway10
kubernetes-pods10
convoy10
tls129
tls139
api-management9
yaml9
mtls9
libtls9
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
emissary-ingress/emissary
Oct 2019 - Dec 2019
open source Kubernetes-native API gateway for microservices built on the Envoy Proxy
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 13 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Cynthia primarily focused on modifying the TLS context configuration and associated tests within the Emissary-ingress repository. Their contributions included porting over TLS module fields, adding error handling for redirect configurations, and implementing remote access logs. These changes indicate a focus on improving the security and logging capabilities of the API gateway. Further, they contributed to tests, indicating a strong interest in the quality of the configurations.
api-gatewayproxyreverse-proxyambassadorapi-management
instructure/canvas-data-loader
Jul 2017 - Apr 2021
Contributions:4 PRs, 10 pushes, 32 comments in 3 years 8 months
canvascanvas-datadatabasedownload-data
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