Fernando Diaz
Staff Developer Advocate
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFernando Diaz is a Staff Developer Advocate at GitLab with a decade of experience helping engineering teams adopt modern software delivery, security, and governance practices. He pairs deep hands-on cloud and CI/CD engineering expertise—honed at IBM where he optimized IAM, ingress-nginx, and container service tooling—with a talent for clear, impactful technical content and developer engagement. Based in Austin, he creates demos, workshops, white papers, and conference talks that translate complex resiliency and security concepts into practical, repeatable workflows. Fernando has a track record of contributing features back to open source projects and reducing test-suite complexity by orders of magnitude, reflecting a pragmatic drive for efficiency. He blends technical leadership inside product teams with an educator’s mindset, often surfacing customer insights to influence product and content strategy. Living “a 1/4 pipeline at a time,” he brings both engineering rigor and a developer-centric sense of humor to advocacy.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Florida International University
Github Skills (56)
kubernetes10
ingress-controller10
docker10
controller10
go-client10
ingress10
testing10
coredns10
nginx-controller10
mobile-application10
go10
apk10
nginx-plus10
golang10
android-application10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
diazjf/client-go
Jun 2017 - Nov 2024
Go client for Kubernetes.
Contributions:6 PRs, 11 pushes, 13 branches in 7 years 6 months
golanggo-clientclient-gokubernetes
diazjf/minikube
Aug 2018 - Nov 2024
Run Kubernetes locally
Contributions:1 PR, 14 pushes, 5 branches in 6 years 3 months
containerskubernetes-deploymentlocallyk8skubernetes
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