Gregory Hanson
Software Engineer at DeciSym.AI
Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGregory Hanson is a seasoned software engineer with 10 years of experience building cloud-native, open-source infrastructure and microservices, currently focused at DeciSym.AI after driving core Istio and Ambient data plane work at solo.io. He is proficient in Go, Java, Python (and Rust for recent projects), with deep expertise in service mesh internals, Envoy integrations, egress proxy design, and HA continuous delivery pipelines. At IBM he helped architect proxy and routing controllers for Amalgam8 and contributed broadly to Istio’s egress and Consul integrations, demonstrating an ability to collaborate across companies like Google, Red Hat, and Lyft. Gregory combines hands-on backend development and testing automation with community-facing maintenance and docs, and has authored tooling for parsing Envoy/Istio access logs and published practical guidance on reducing service-mesh operational costs. Based in Kennett Square, PA, he brings a computer engineering background from UW–Madison and a track record of shipping maintainable, production-grade networking features in high-impact open-source projects.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering and Computer Science Computer Software Engineering, Computer Engineering and Computer Science Computer Software Engineering at University of Wisconsin-MadisonHigh School Diploma General Studies, High School Diploma General Studies at Slinger High School
Spanish
Github Skills (14)
env10
service-mesh10
kubernetes10
discovery10
proxy10
go10
api10
envoyproxy10
convoy10
kubernetes-pods10
protocol-buffers10
apidoc9
microservices-application9
microservices9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
istio/api
Apr 2017 - Apr 2022
API definitions for the Istio project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 reviews, 18 commits, 32 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Gregory contributed to the Istio API definitions, focusing on changes related to proxy configurations and routing. Their work included adding new features like the egress proxy service and updating examples for enums. They also removed outdated fields from configurations and addressed naming conventions for access logs, indicating a focus on API design and maintenance.
apiistiokubernetesdefinitions
istio/istio
Apr 2017 - Jan 2023
Connect, secure, control, and observe services.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:750 reviews, 180 commits, 247 PRs in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Gregory's commits focus on implementing and enhancing the egress proxy feature for external services within the Istio project. They implemented the initial egress service, added integration tests, and fixed code styling and coverage issues. The contributions involved code modifications in the pilot/proxy/envoy/egress.go file, indicating a focus on backend functionalities. Additionally, they extended the HTTPS support for external services.
circuit-breakerenforce-policiesistioapi-managementmicroservice
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