Ed Robinson
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Cookpad Ltd
Telford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarEd Robinson is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating cloud-native systems, currently focused on reliability at Cookpad. He is the author of Kubernetes on AWS and brings deep hands-on expertise in Ruby, Go, Kubernetes, and DevOps practices. His open-source contributions include enhancing message processing in the popular Sneakers background job framework and improving Kubernetes integrations for Traefik and Fluentd daemonsets. Comfortable across code, CI/CD and containerization, he combines pragmatic engineering with a knack for simplifying complex distributed systems. Based in Telford, he pairs production-grade SRE skills with a practical author’s perspective on making Kubernetes usable in the real world.
13 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (31)
kubernetes10
serializable10
docker10
reverse-proxy10
serializer10
ingress10
dockers10
cicd10
ruby10
serialization10
deserialization10
go10
build-automation10
kubernetes-pods10
web-framework10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
traefik/traefik
Apr 2016 - Sep 2017
The Cloud Native Application Proxy
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 34 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Ed primarily contributed to the Kubernetes provider for Traefik, focusing on Ingress resource handling. Their work included adding features to namespace Kubernetes Ingress resources, ensuring that Traefik correctly loads ingresses from specific namespaces. Furthermore, the user refactored the code to simplify service lookups and improved endpoint port selection. These changes improve the Kubernetes integration and functionality of Traefik.
zookeeperproxyload-balancingreverse-proxymesos
fluent/fluentd-kubernetes-daemonset
Mar 2018 - Jun 2018
Fluentd daemonset for Kubernetes and it Docker image
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 8 PRs, 20 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Ed primarily focused on improving the build and deployment process of the Fluentd daemonset for Kubernetes. Their contributions included implementing Bundler for dependency management, updating configurations to utilize Bundler, and modifying Dockerfile and entrypoint scripts for image building. The user also addressed issues related to deprecated configurations and updated documentation, ensuring the daemonset's efficient operation and maintainability within a Kubernetes environment.
hands-ondaemonsetdocker-imagefluentddocker
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