Ian Coolidge
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Coolidge is a Staff Software Engineer in Palo Alto with 13 years of systems-first engineering experience spanning embedded Linux, real-time and wireless systems, networking, and backend services. At Google he has driven complex platform work for GCP edge vRAN, zero-touch provisioning, kernel and hardware integration, and previously contributed to LTE networking and Chromecast projects. His background includes hands-on firmware and BSP work, device drivers, and field-facing debugging from roles at TrellisWare and JetHead, where he redesigned critical voice and IPC architectures for resilient multi-hop radio and set-top systems. An active contributor to Kubernetes internals, he has refactored the cpuset library to improve CPU resource management in production-grade container orchestration. Colleagues rely on him for bridging deep systems knowledge with practical product delivery across hardware, kernel, and cloud stacks.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Minor in mathematics, Computer Engineering, Minor in mathematics at University of California, Riverside
Spanish
Github Skills (8)
kubernetes10
container10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
algorithms8
data-structures8
algorithm8
data-structure8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/kubernetes
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 8 commits, 3 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ian focused on the implementation and modification of the `cpuset` package within the Kubernetes project. Their work primarily revolved around refactoring the `cpuset` library to enhance its functionality and maintainability. They converted arguments to variadic form, removed the `MustParse` method, deleted builder methods, and implemented API hiding, thereby streamlining the codebase. The user's contributions demonstrate expertise in CPU resource management within the Kubernetes ecosystem.
containersschedulingdockergradeproduction-grade
iancoolidge/kubernetes
Nov 2022 - May 2023
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
containersschedulingdockergradeproduction-grade
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