Hippie Hacker
Strategic Initiatives Consultant
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarHippie Hacker is a Strategic Initiatives Consultant with 14 years of experience shaping cloud-native and DevOps ecosystems from Tauranga Moana to Austin. At the CNCF he collaborates with engineers from the world’s largest tech firms, contributing to open-source infrastructure and the blueprints that drive rapidly evolving platforms. His hands-on background in automation, Windows VM build pipelines, and Kubernetes infrastructure includes notable contributions to high-profile projects like kubernetes/k8s.io, veewee, and chef/bento. Previously he led security and operations teams across finance, enterprise, and professional services, bringing a blend of product-minded strategy and low-level scripting/CI automation. Comfortable bridging exec strategy and command-line pragmatism, he’s known for making complex deployments repeatable and testable across heterogeneous environments.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (31)
kubernetes10
k3s10
scripting10
winrm10
testing10
windows10
bash10
cicd10
gcp10
chef-client10
automation10
script10
packer10
windows-server10
inf10
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
jedi4ever/veewee
Oct 2011 - Mar 2013
Easing the building of vagrant boxes
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:85 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Hippie primarily contributed to the `veewee` project by implementing and enhancing networking features for virtual machines. Their work included adding support for host-only and bridged network interfaces, as well as integrating features for Windows-based virtual machines, specifically adding winrm configurations. Additionally, the user improved the build process by adding and updating templates for Windows. This included configuration scripts and integrating chef client.
vagrantvmsesxiansiblehyper-v
kubernetes/k8s.io
Dec 2018 - Nov 2021
Code and configuration to manage Kubernetes project infrastructure, including various *.k8s.io sites
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:21 reviews, 20 commits, 28 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Hippie's contributions centered on automating and improving the testing and deployment processes for the `k8s.io` project. They developed and modified shell scripts (`push.sh`, `test.sh`, `check-zone.sh`) to perform tasks such as zone checks and canary deployments. The user also worked on integrating Docker and other tools to support the infrastructure management, likely to improve the continuous integration and delivery pipeline for the project.
gcpkubernetes-deploymentveleroinfrastructuresites
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