Guinevere Saenger
Senior Software Engineer at Pulumi
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGuinevere Saenger is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with nine years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, developer tooling, and SDKs. She currently helps improve Pulumi’s cloud infrastructure and Go SDKs, contributing pragmatic code-generation fixes and build process improvements used by many cloud engineers. Previously at GitHub she architected developer-facing Kubernetes deployment platforms and “golden path” workflows, and she has a strong track record in Kubernetes tooling (kustomize, Postgres operator) and IaC examples across major cloud providers. Fluent in Go, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible and several higher-level languages, she pairs rigorous engineering with clear technical writing—her open-source contributions range from CLI UX tweaks to subtle nil-handling fixes that prevent downstream runtime errors. Unusually for an engineer at her level, she began her career as a professional musician and music instructor, a background she cites for her collaborative coaching and attention to detail.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Music, piano performance, 3.8, Bachelor of Music, piano performance, 3.8 at University of OregonMaster of Fine Arts (M.F.A.), Collaborative Keyboard, Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.), Collaborative Keyboard at California Institute of the Artsn/a, Software Development, n/a, Software Development at Ada Developers Academy
English, German, Latin, French
Github Skills (40)
kubernetes10
cloud-computing10
python10
technical-writing10
command-line-interface10
cloud-infrastructure10
pulumi10
gcp10
code-generation10
go10
sdk10
aws10
kubernetes-pods10
command-line10
infrastructure-as-code10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
pulumi/pulumi-aws
Nov 2021 - Sep 2022
An Amazon Web Services (AWS) Pulumi resource package, providing multi-language access to AWS
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:64 reviews, 25 commits, 93 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Guinevere primarily contributed to the Go SDK for Pulumi AWS, specifically adding and modifying IAM enum definitions. They added an enum for AWSCloudWatchLambdaInsightsExecutionRolePolicy and incorporated changes from upgrading the Terraform AWS provider. Further, they refactored code related to the budget resource within the Python SDK. These updates suggest a focus on maintaining and extending the Pulumi AWS resource package.
aws-web-servicespythonmulti-languagefsharpgo
pulumi/examples
Jan 2022 - May 2022
Infrastructure, containers, and serverless apps to AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes... all deployed with Pulumi
Role in this project:Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 5 commits, 12 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Guinevere contributed to infrastructure-as-code examples within the Pulumi ecosystem. Their work included adding and fixing examples for deploying applications on Kubernetes using Helm, as well as updates for Azure Container Apps. They upgraded examples to use the latest versions of the Pulumi GCP provider, and modified infrastructure configuration for GKE clusters.
containersgcpdevopsserverlessinfrastructure
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