Katrina Mitchell
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKatrina Mitchell is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in full-stack web development, backend scalability, language theory, and infosec. She currently leads infrastructure-level work on the Google Kubernetes Engine API team, translating complex distributed systems problems into reliable production services. Her background spans cloud-native deployment automation—contributing to the widely used Kubernetes ingress controller for Google Cloud—and hands-on DevOps tooling that introduced a dry-run workflow and automated image pipelines. Earlier roles range from Python-based ML and large-data IC simulation to Scala and .NET full-stack development, reflecting strong cross-language versatility. Based in Kitchener, Ontario, she combines technical leadership with deep implementation chops and a preference for solving intellectually interesting problems, many of which she has kept closed-source while driving measurable infrastructure improvements.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at University of Saskatchewan
English
Stackoverflow
4,685reputation
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43answers
69questions
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Github Skills (23)
kubernetes10
scripting10
ingress10
cicd10
gcp10
automation10
script10
kubernetes-pods10
sh10
automations10
shell10
devops10
dockers9
docker9
google9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/ingress-gce
May 2019 - Jun 2019
Ingress controller for Google Cloud
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 26 comments in 12 days
Contributions summary:Katrina's contributions primarily focused on automating and improving the deployment process for the Google Cloud Ingress controller. They implemented a `--dry-run` feature for testing and debugging deployment scripts. The user also enhanced the GKE self-managed script, enabling automatic image building, pushing, and flexible configuration options for the GLBC. The work involved significant changes to shell scripts, ensuring robust and streamlined deployments.
loadbalancergcpcontrollergoogleingress-controller
KatrinaHoffert/EatSafe
Jan 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:334 commits, 9 pushes in 2 years
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