Kyle Cascade
Engineer at Netflix
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolKyle Cascade is an experienced engineer with 15 years building and operating large-scale distributed systems, currently contributing to Netflix’s Compute team managing Titus, a federated multi-tenant container platform. He helped lead Yelp’s cloud migration and co-created PaaSTA, an open-source PaaS that enabled a company-wide microservices transformation and later informed Kubernetes-based operator work. His open-source contributions span service management, container tooling, and CI/CD hardening — notable work includes patches to Yelp/paasta and improving Marathon and Puppet modules to make deployments and health checks more robust. Comfortable across backend, DevOps, and test automation, he has deep practical experience automating container lifecycles and CI matrices for real-world infra. Early career roles at Intel and Oak Ridge sharpened his appreciation for performance engineering and scientific compute workflows, bringing a hardware-aware perspective to cloud platforms. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he pairs systems-level pragmatism with a proven track record of shipping resilient infrastructure at scale.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Philosophy, Bachelor's degree, Philosophy at University of South Florida
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Github Skills (46)
puppeteer10
docker10
c-language10
python10
marathon10
puppet10
testing10
service-management10
bash10
n10
dockers10
cicd10
ethernet10
j10
iot10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
thefactory/marathon-python
May 2015 - Oct 2020
Python client library for Mesos Marathon's REST API
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:242 commits, 171 PRs, 230 pushes in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily contributed to the infrastructure and testing aspects of the project. Their work included setting up a Travis CI integration for automated testing, adding a matrix of Marathon versions to test against, and creating scripts for installing and starting Marathon. Furthermore, the user made modifications to the Python client library by adding the `force_pull_image` parameter for the container model, indicating involvement in backend development related to container management.
api-clientapipythonclient-librarypython-client
voxpupuli/puppet-consul
Apr 2014 - Apr 2022
A Puppet Module to Manage Consul
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Test Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 385 commits, 265 PRs in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily focused on improving the testing infrastructure and deployment process for the Puppet module. Their contributions include fixing existing tests, adding new acceptance tests, and adjusting tests to accommodate changes in the module's dependencies. Furthermore, the user updated the build process by migrating to the staging module and enhancing CI/CD setup for the project. They also addressed linting issues and implemented fixes related to systemd and Debian init scripts for service management.
windows-puppet-modulepuppetpuppet-modulelinux-puppet-moduleconsul
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