Keith Burdis
Executive Director at Goldman Sachs
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKeith Burdis is an Executive Director and seasoned IT professional with 13 years of experience specialising in Kubernetes, containers, platform engineering and security. At Goldman Sachs he blends technical leadership with hands-on work across automation, Linux and build/delivery tooling to drive resilient, production-grade platforms. He is an active open-source contributor—his work on the prominent projectcontour/contour adds practical Envoy and ingress improvements such as TCP keepalives, case-insensitive FQDN handling and dynamic header variables. Keith pairs an MSc in Computer Science with a pragmatic, analytical approach to complex systems and a passion for continuous improvement in team delivery. He is equally comfortable shaping architecture and diving into Go, CLI tools or shell scripting to ship solutions.
13 years of coding experience
MSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at Rhodes University
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Github Skills (20)
env10
ingress-controller10
kubernetes10
envoyproxy10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
convoy10
yaml8
api-design7
integrations7
api7
jenkins6
kubernetes-security6
openshift6
kubectl6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
projectcontour/contour
Jul 2020 - Jul 2022
Contour is a Kubernetes ingress controller using Envoy proxy.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 reviews, 8 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Keith primarily focused on enhancing Contour's functionality as a Kubernetes ingress controller using Envoy proxy. Their contributions involved configuring TCP keepalives for Envoy listener sockets, addressing duplicate FQDN issues with case-insensitive matching, and adding support for dynamic variables within HTTP headers for improved configuration flexibility. Furthermore, the user implemented default request/response headers and updated Kubernetes dependencies.
envoy-proxycontrollerenvoyproxyingress-controller
voxpupuli/puppet-system
Oct 2012 - Jul 2017
Manage Linux system resources and services from hiera configuration
Contributions:156 commits, 4 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 years 9 months
hierapuppetlinuxlinux-systemlinux-puppet-module
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