Gabriela Tellez is a Technology Lead with nine years of experience specializing in cloud orchestration, container ecosystems, and CI/CD automation. She has deep hands-on expertise across Docker, Kubernetes, Podman, OpenShift, container runtimes and multiple Linux distributions, and has automated end-to-end validation pipelines at scale using Jenkins and GitHub Actions. A proven open-source contributor, Gabriela improved CI/CD, testing and build tooling for the widely used Kata Containers project, adding cross-distribution test scripts and compatibility checks for runtimes and kernel/QEMU components. She blends strong troubleshooting and scripting skills (Bash, Python, Go, Ansible) with clear communication and stakeholder collaboration across diverse teams. Based in Zapopan, Mexico, her background spans cloud deployments on Azure and AWS and performance benchmarking for ML frameworks, reflecting a rare mix of systems, automation and research-driven engineering.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Science (MSc) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Victoria
Bachelor's degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Tecnológico de Monterrey
Kata Containers is an open source project and community working to build a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that feel and perform like containers, but provide the workload isolation and security advantages of VMs. https://katacontainers.io/
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
Contributions:866 reviews, 385 commits, 736 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Gabriela primarily contributed to the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline, adding scripts to automate the testing and release processes. They implemented a script to verify the versions of different components before merging the runtime, ensuring compatibility across the project. The user also added scripts to test open source packages in different distributions and added steps to set up tools like hub and k8s in the test processes. Furthermore, they made several improvements to the build and deployment scripts for kernel, qemu and other related components.
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