Jeremy Rickard
Colorado, United States
Summary
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RockstarJeremy Rickard is a cloud-native software engineer and technical leader with over eight years of experience driving Kubernetes, microservices, and container tooling across major platforms including Microsoft Azure, VMware, and Apple. He has held influential upstream roles—Kubernetes 1.20 Release Lead, SIG-Architecture Enhancements Subproject Owner, and SIG-Release Tech Lead—and now serves on the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee while focusing on software supply chain security at Microsoft. Deeply pragmatic in Go and cloud integrations, Jeremy’s open-source contributions span service-catalog, virtual-kubelet, Azure CLI, and Porter, often improving Kubernetes compatibility and AKS automation. He pairs systems-level thinking with hands-on engineering across languages and databases, and has a track record of shipping production-grade features for virtual nodes, ACI integration, and CNAB packaging. Based in Colorado and holding an M.S. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins, he blends enterprise-scale delivery with a persistent focus on improving developer-facing cloud tooling.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (24)
kubernetes10
docker10
python10
apidoc10
testing10
azure-container-apps10
cloud-infrastructure10
microsoft-azure10
dockers10
automation10
go10
api10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
azure10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
virtual-kubelet/virtual-kubelet
Jul 2018 - Jun 2019
Virtual Kubelet is an open source Kubernetes kubelet implementation.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Cloud Engineer
Back-end & Cloud EngineerContributions:31 commits, 24 PRs, 10 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Jeremy primarily contributed to the ACI (Azure Container Instances) provider within the virtual-kubelet project. Their work involved updating the ACI API version, adding liveness and readiness probes, and enabling these probes within the ACI provider. The user also implemented changes to handle named ports for liveness/readiness checks and addressed empty environment variables. Their contributions demonstrate a focus on enhancing the ACI integration and improving the Kubernetes compatibility of the provider.
kubeletkubernetescncf
kubernetes-retired/service-catalog
Mar 2018 - Jul 2018
Consume services in Kubernetes using the Open Service Broker API
Role in this project:Back-end & Automation Engineer
Back-end & Automation EngineerContributions:23 commits, 18 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jeremy primarily contributed to the `service-catalog` repository by implementing features related to unbinding and provisioning of services. They added functionality to print deleted binding names and enhanced parameter options for service provisioning, enabling the use of JSON-formatted parameters. The user also refactored and added validation logic for service plans and introduced the ServicePlan API with supporting changes.
kubernetesservice-brokerk8s-sig-service-catalog
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