Ian Coldwater
Kubernetes SIG Security Chair at CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolIan Coldwater is a cloud-native security leader with a decade of experience driving hardening and adversary-focused engineering across platforms and open-source communities. As Kubernetes SIG Security co-chair and former Director of Offensive Security at Twilio, she blends offensive tradecraft with practical platform defense to shrink attack surface in production container environments. Her roles on the CNCF, OSSF governing board, and as a CNCF Ambassador reflect deep community stewardship and policy influence in supply-chain and container security. Ian pairs hands-on technical chops—earned through platform security leadership at Heroku and a senior security architect role at Docker—with a knack for translating research into deployable mitigations. Based in Minneapolis, she’s known in the community as a “container escape artist,” signaling an unusual willingness to find and fix real-world breakout paths rather than theorize about them.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota Twin CitiesFull Stack Software Engineering Certification, Full Stack Software Engineering Certification at Prime Digital Academy
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Github Skills (23)
kubernetes10
meta10
docker9
go9
scheduling8
kubernetes-monitoring7
mesos7
gcp7
emacs7
kubernetes-deployment7
infrastructure6
k8s6
terraform6
velero5
artifacts4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rgravem/peerFullStackWithAuth
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:4 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
IanColdwaterPrime/weekendproject02
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
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