Katie Coronado is a Software Engineer III at Google with a decade of experience designing APIs, backend services, and cloud-native microservices. A Google Engineering Residency alum, she spent 4.5 years on GKE projects—driving upgrade notifications to GA, implementing maintenance exclusion scopes, and hardening upgrade policies—before moving to Google Health to work on Care Studio. She brings practical cloud and infra expertise from hands-on contributions to prominent open-source Kubernetes projects (Cluster API and GCP provider), improving GCP provisioning, networking, and machine image workflows. Comfortable across frontend (TypeScript/Angular UI work) and backend systems, she has a pattern of shipping features end-to-end and quickly iterating on security-sensitive releases. Based in Seattle and grounded in computer engineering, she’s motivated by building software that improves healthcare delivery and patient outcomes. An uncommon strength is her blend of embedded-systems internship experience and large-scale cloud engineering, enabling thoughtful system-level tradeoffs.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering at University of Pittsburgh
Computer Science, Computer Science at National University of Singapore
Contributions summary:Katie made several contributions related to the GCP provider implementation for Cluster API. They focused on configuring machine setup, including creating a ConfigMap for startup scripts and modifying the image field. Additionally, the user updated the machine controller image and implemented changes to network configuration by using kubenet, adding worker tags, and adding service accounts. The user also changed the default image to Ubuntu 1604.
Contributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 19 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Katie primarily focused on migrating existing tests off the ginkgo/gomega framework. They updated tests related to cluster and machine controllers, and API server tests to utilize standard testing practices. Furthermore, the user modified the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) machine actuator to retrieve OS images from provider configurations, enhancing the flexibility of machine deployments. This involved adjusting image retrieval logic and improving the default image version.
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