Kate Goldenring
Senior II Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKate Goldenring is a Senior II Software Engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native and edge platforms, most recently focused on serverless WebAssembly and Kubernetes at Fermyon and now Akamai. She combines backend systems, DevOps, and build/deployment expertise—contributing significant improvements to Spin, Krustlet, and Akri that span deployment tooling, device plugins, and CI/infrastructure. Comfortable in both product teams at Microsoft and fast-moving open-source projects, she has a track record of shipping reliable integrations and meaningful test and packaging improvements. Based in Seattle, she pairs a Computer Science and Economics background with hands-on experience mentoring and teaching early developers, and she’s driven by creating the infrastructure that enables the next wave of edge-native applications.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The Outdoor AcademyHarpeth Hall SchoolBachelor's degree Computer Science Economics, Bachelor's degree Computer Science Economics at The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillNOLS
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (30)
kubernetes10
docker10
spin10
plugin-development10
dockers10
cicd10
plugin10
prometheus10
helm10
kubernetes-pods10
serverless10
webassembly10
rust10
devops10
testing9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
project-akri/akri
Oct 2020 - Dec 2022
A Kubernetes Resource Interface for the Edge
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 695 reviews, 286 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Kate primarily focused on improving the Akri project's build and deployment infrastructure. They implemented and modified build scripts, container definitions, and Helm charts, enabling both slim and full agent builds. Contributions included setting up Prometheus metrics and refining the deployment process for various components. Additionally, they made backend improvements, such as correcting errors in agent operations, as well as enhancements to documentation.
kuberneteskubernetes-resourceedge
spinframework/spin
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Spin is the open source developer tool for building and running serverless applications powered by WebAssembly.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:330 reviews, 36 commits, 92 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Kate Goldenring primarily focused on improving the deployment and management of the Spin applications. Their contributions include fixing bugs in the deploy command, such as getting the revision ID and patching channels. They also introduced support for Spin plugins, including features for installation, upgrades, and updates. Additionally, Kate worked on integration tests, and overall code cleanup, demonstrating proficiency in multiple areas of the project.
secureserverlesswebassemblycomposablemicroservices
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