Jeff Peeler
Senior Platform Engineer
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Peeler is a Senior Platform Engineer with 16 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, currently based in New York and working at Bumble. He brings deep expertise in Kubernetes, OpenShift, and OpenStack—having contributed to prominent projects like Operator Lifecycle Manager, operator-registry, and Kolla—focused on build/deployment automation, containerization, and testing. His background spans SRE work at Capital One through platform and CI/CD ownership at Geneva, combining hands-on systems administration with software development to make deployments more resilient and observable. Jeff is fluent in infrastructure as code, CI pipelines, and RBAC/deployment hardening, and he has a track record of adding pragmatic tooling such as CLI helpers, metrics endpoints, and automated bundle deployment. Notably, he’s often the bridge between developer workflows and production operations, improving local dev experiences as well as cluster automation. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Clemson and prefers solving infrastructure problems by shipping repeatable, testable automation.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at Clemson University
English
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Github Skills (40)
kubernetes10
docker10
python10
tox10
testing10
configuration-management10
bash10
kubernetes-operator10
containerization10
dockers10
cicd10
crt10
automation10
go10
openshift10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-retired/service-catalog
Jan 2017 - Apr 2018
Consume services in Kubernetes using the Open Service Broker API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:80 commits, 138 PRs, 78 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily contributed to the service-catalog project by implementing code generation, conversion logic, and testing. They added generated conversion code, YAML parsers, and serialization tests to support the project's functionality. Furthermore, the user enhanced unit testing for credential serialization, expanded client set tests for instances and bindings, and added controller tests for WIP controllers. This involved significant interaction with the project's core logic and testing infrastructure.
apibrokeropen-service-broker-apibroker-apiconsume
operator-framework/operator-lifecycle-manager
Aug 2018 - Dec 2019
A management framework for extending Kubernetes with Operators
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 166 commits, 90 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily focused on enhancing the operator framework's functionality by introducing metrics and improving existing scripts. Key contributions included adding a /metrics endpoint to expose OLM-specific resource counts, which involved modifications to the code in metrics.go and integration with the queueinformer. The user also streamlined build processes by removing unnecessary dependencies, and added features to allow KUBECONFIG to be set from the environment. The user's work involved adjusting deployments and RBAC related to CRDs.
kubernetes-operatorsoperator-sdkkubernetes-applicationsk8s-operatoroperator
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