Gareth Evans
Tech Lead Staff Engineer II at VMware
Annalong, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGareth Evans is a seasoned tech lead and staff engineer with 11+ years building cloud-native CI/CD and platform tooling across finance and open-source communities. He currently leads multi-cloud build and deployment work on the FinKit platform at VMware, and has a strong track record driving automation at scale—turning 50 yearly deployments into 300+ per day in prior roles. A prolific OSS contributor, Gareth has improved tooling in high-profile projects like Skaffold and Jenkins X, focusing on Kubernetes, Kaniko, Helm, and secure pipeline automation. His current passion is safely automating autonomous system updates to roll out CVE fixes within minutes, reflecting a practical obsession with reducing human intervention. Based in Northern Ireland, he pairs hands-on engineering with platform leadership and has presented at DevOps Enterprise Summit and New Relic user groups.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Software Engineering at University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Github Skills (45)
git10
kubernetes10
github-ci10
container10
docker10
scripting10
jenkins-x10
kaniko10
bash10
dockers10
terraform10
java10
cicd10
gcp10
javas10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
jenkinsci/docker
Nov 2020 - Mar 2021
Docker official jenkins repo
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:11 reviews, 36 commits, 25 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Gareth's commits primarily focus on improving the Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline for the Docker-based Jenkins project. They updated the build process, configured Docker login, and refactored publishing scripts. The commits demonstrate a strong understanding of Docker, Jenkins, and CI/CD best practices within this specific project.
jenkinsjenkins-pluginjenkins-api-plugindockerremoting
GoogleContainerTools/skaffold
Dec 2018 - Apr 2019
Easy and Repeatable Kubernetes Development
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:29 commits, 7 PRs, 24 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Gareth contributed to the `skaffold` project by implementing features related to mounting Docker credentials and configuration for Kaniko builds. Their work involved modifying code across multiple files to enable these features and updating the configuration schema. This user also refactored code and added documentation. Furthermore, the user integrated resource requirements for the Kaniko pod within the cluster build configuration.
containershelmrepeatabledockerdeveloper-tools
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