Jillian Kuentz
Software Engineering Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJillian Kuentz is a Software Engineering Manager at AWS in Austin with six years of professional experience building and leading cloud-native engineering teams. She progressed through hands-on SDE roles at Amazon and AWS before stepping into management in 2020, blending technical depth with team leadership. Her work spans infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and Kubernetes testing—highlighted by contributions to the widely used aws-node-termination-handler where she implemented spot termination integration tests and test-cluster orchestration. Jillian is comfortable writing production-grade automation, custom Docker images, and deployment configurations to validate complex behaviors in distributed systems. Based in Austin and grounded in a Computer Science degree from Notre Dame, she brings a pragmatic focus on reliability and repeatable testing to fast-moving cloud projects. Colleagues would call her a manager who still ships code and turns operational challenges into automated solutions.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Notre Dame
Github Skills (13)
kind10
kubernetes10
automated-tests10
bash10
docker10
aws10
dockers10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
k8s9
golang9
go9
amazon-eks9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-node-termination-handler
Sep 2019 - Feb 2021
Gracefully handle EC2 instance shutdown within Kubernetes
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:16 reviews, 26 commits, 52 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Jillian primarily focused on implementing and testing the spot termination integration test for the Node Termination Handler, creating a script to manage a kind Kubernetes cluster for testing. They built and integrated custom Docker images and configured deployments for the test environment. The user's contributions ensured the automated testing of the application, validating its behavior within a Kubernetes environment. Their work demonstrates a focus on infrastructure automation and continuous integration.
golangmaintenance-eventsec2shutdownspot-instances
jillmon/aws-node-termination-handler
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
A Kubernetes Daemonset to gracefully handle EC2 instance shutdown
Contributions:8 pushes in 1 day
ec2daemonsetshutdowngracefullykubernetes
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