Grant Mccloskey
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGrant Mccloskey is a Staff Software Engineer in Seattle with eight years building scalable CI/CD, test infrastructure, and release systems for Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine. He leads engineering excellence for GKE releases, owning qualification, release pipelines, and health infra that keep one of Google Cloud’s largest projects stable and fast. Deeply experienced in backend services, DevOps, and distributed systems, he has a track record of reducing developer toil through automation, low-blast-radius migrations, and Golang rewrite tooling. An active contributor to the kubernetes/test-infra repo, Grant has improved build metadata and reliability for a globally vital open-source project. His background spans networking and cloud platforms at 128 Technology and hands-on systems work from embedded PCBs to OpenStack optimizations, reflecting both broad systems knowledge and practical tooling instincts. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture that balances operational rigor with shipping velocity.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bucknell UniversityBernards High School
Github Skills (13)
kubernetes10
python10
kubernetes-pods10
devops9
test-automation9
bigquery8
google-cloud-platform8
gcp8
google-cloud7
cloud-object-storage7
google-cloud-storage7
storage7
go7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/test-infra
Jul 2020 - Apr 2022
Test infrastructure for the Kubernetes project.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:119 reviews, 178 commits, 137 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Grant primarily worked on the test infrastructure for the Kubernetes project. Their contributions involved adding new fields like `repo_commit` and `repos` to the build metadata, enhancing the build process. They made several boyscouting and refactoring commits to streamline the codebase, and were involved in merging changes and updating dependencies. These changes suggest a focus on improving the reliability and maintainability of the testing infrastructure.
test-infrastructuretestinginfrastructurek8s-sig-testingkubernetes
MushuEE/test-infra
Jul 2020 - Jun 2023
Test infrastructure for the Kubernetes project.
Contributions:2 PRs, 244 pushes, 121 branches in 2 years 11 months
testingkubernetesinfrastructuretest-infrastructure
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