Julian Katz
Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJulian Katz is a full-stack software engineer with nine years of experience building web and cloud-native tooling, currently contributing to Anthos Config Management at Google in San Francisco. He spans front-end to cloud infrastructure—CSS and Angular SPAs to AWS infrastructure as code and Kubernetes policy controllers—bringing a pragmatic, security-minded approach to platform engineering. His notable open-source work on Gatekeeper improved readiness, CRD modernization, and security validation for Kubernetes policy enforcement. Former roles include DevOps and application development at Aetna where he led CI/CD, CloudFormation deployments, and mentored junior engineers, demonstrating both hands-on delivery and team development. Outside work he has wilderness leadership experience that reflects strong situational leadership and risk management skills.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Colorado College
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
security10
opa10
kubernetes10
gpo10
go10
policies10
admin10
kubernetes-pods10
open-policy-agent10
rule-engine10
yaml7
mobile6
html6
css6
image6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
open-policy-agent/gatekeeper
Nov 2020 - Sep 2022
🐊 Gatekeeper - Policy Controller for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Backend & Security Engineer
Backend & Security EngineerContributions:361 reviews, 45 commits, 62 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Julian made substantial contributions to Gatekeeper, primarily focused on enhancing its security and functionality. Their work involved implementing features related to readiness checks, including adding retry functionality and configuration options for resource ingestion attempts. The user also addressed security vulnerabilities by adding validation for the Config resource to ensure its correct naming. They further contributed by adding structural information to constraint CRDs and upgrading CRD definitions to the latest Kubernetes versions.
golanggatekeeperpolicycontrolleropa
juliandkatz/dotfiles
Jan 2017 - Nov 2020
Contributions:203 commits in 3 years 9 months
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