Ken Russo
Senior Software Engineering Manager at F5
Louisville, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolKen Russo is a Senior Software Engineering Manager with over 10 years leading cloud-native and embedded systems engineering, currently managing an agile team building microservice controllers for F5's NGINX+ products. He combines deep systems-level expertise in C/C++, Linux kernel and driver work, and realtime OSes with cloud-native skills in Go, Kubernetes/OpenShift, Docker and AWS/Azure. At F5 he helped port load-balancer proxies into containerized Linux environments, added autoscaling for BigIP VE, and contributed reliability-focused fixes to the widely used k8s-bigip-ctlr project. His background spans firmware and storage systems through VMware and EMC, giving him an uncommon ability to bridge low-level performance tuning with large-scale distributed service design. Ken holds an MS in Computer Science and is based in Louisville, Colorado.
10 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Colorado State UniversityBS, Electrical & Computer Engineering, BS, Electrical & Computer Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
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Github Skills (14)
kubernetes10
ingress-controller10
go10
openshift10
python10
kubernetes-pods10
dockers9
devops9
orchestration9
orchestra9
ingress9
docker9
bigip9
testing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
F5Networks/k8s-bigip-ctlr
Oct 2016 - Apr 2018
Repository for F5 Container Ingress Services for Kubernetes & OpenShift.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:73 commits, 53 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Ken's contributions focused on improving the reliability and stability of the F5 Kubernetes controller. They addressed locking issues and introduced a checkpointing mechanism to synchronize the BIG-IP configuration with the Kubernetes state. They also implemented new features such as support for the new config file format and OpenShift SDN integration. Additionally, the user refactored code, improved test results, and addressed several system test failures, demonstrating a strong understanding of the project's architecture and operational aspects.
f5-ccorchestrationingress-controllertlsdocker
russokj/k8s-bigip-ctlr
Oct 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:67 pushes, 29 branches in 6 months
big-ipkubernetescontroller
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