Jose Cortes
Senior Software Engineer at Ambassador Labs
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJose Cortes is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building and operating cloud-native systems, specializing in high-performance Golang networking, Python/Java automation, and Kubernetes-focused DevOps. At Ambassador Labs he shipped rapid releases and implemented concurrent networking across developer workstations, customer clouds, and company infrastructure, and at Autonomic scaled CI/CD to support 100+ microservices across AWS-hosted clusters. An active OSS contributor, Jose has made substantive backend and networking contributions to the widely used Telepresence project, improving TCP handling, routing, and tracing for remote cluster development. He blends hands-on engineering with mentorship and hiring, keeps product–engineering feedback loops tight for smoother PoCs, and brings practical observability experience using Prometheus and distributed tracing. Colocated in Old Toronto, he pairs deep systems skills with a pragmatic, occasionally self-deprecating ops mindset—“sometimes i dev, sometimes i ops, and sometimes i oops.”
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science, Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Toronto ScarboroughNanodegree, Deep Learning, Nanodegree, Deep Learning at Udacity
French, Spanish, English
Github Skills (13)
kubernetes10
go10
networking10
kubernetes-pods10
dockers9
tracer9
grpc9
trace9
linux9
docker9
testing8
api-design7
automated-tests7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
telepresenceio/telepresence
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
Local development against a remote Kubernetes or OpenShift cluster
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:399 reviews, 679 commits, 277 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Jose primarily contributed to the backend and infrastructure aspects of the Telepresence project. Their work included debugging and fixing issues related to TCP handling and connection management. They also implemented features such as the routing for never proxy subnets and introduced code for tracing mechanisms, demonstrating a focus on network performance and diagnostics. In addition, the user was responsible for preparing releases and updating configurations for cloud environments.
kubernetesopenshiftlocal-developmentdockerproxy
josecv/ebpf-userspace-exporter
Feb 2021 - Apr 2021
Exports metrics from USDT probes to prometheus
Contributions:2 releases, 26 commits, 10 PRs in 2 months
prometheus
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