Kyle Schochenmaier
Staff Software Engineer at Massive
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Schochenmaier is a Staff Software Engineer with 18 years of experience building and operating cloud-native and on‑prem Kubernetes platforms, distributed storage, and secure secrets infrastructure for fintech and telecom environments. Currently at Polygon.io he bridges platform and product teams to drive GitOps, high-availability bare‑metal and cloud Kubernetes deployments, and observability while reducing operational overhead through custom operators and controllers. His background includes principal roles at Microsoft (AKS on-prem for telecoms) and HashiCorp (Vault and Consul Kubernetes integrations), and notable open-source contributions to Consul and consul-k8s that improved build reliability and runtime resource management. Kyle combines deep systems-level expertise—storage, networking, Zero Trust—and a pragmatism for product delivery, often influencing roadmaps and CVE remediation at scale. Based in Chicago, he prefers fully remote roles and brings a track record of mentoring engineers and aligning long-term infrastructure strategy with immediate product needs.
18 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Iowa State UniversityElectrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering at University of Iowa
English, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
service-mesh10
consul10
kubernetes10
develop10
go10
agent10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
testing9
bash9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/consul-k8s
Jun 2020 - Dec 2022
First-class support for Consul Service Mesh on Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:790 reviews, 366 commits, 233 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Kyle contributed primarily to improving the build process and resource management within the Kubernetes environment. They addressed Windows build failures by adding missing file extensions and updated resources for lifecycle sidecar and init containers, optimizing memory and CPU allocation. They also added flags to control resource settings for connect inject and lifecycle sidecars. Furthermore, they removed unnecessary dependencies to streamline project builds and reduced dependencies.
meshhelmconsul-servicehelm-chartvault
hashicorp/consul
Jul 2020 - Dec 2022
Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:119 reviews, 44 commits, 48 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily contributed to the Consul agent codebase, with changes ranging from updating documentation navigation to removing deprecated `ioutil` usage. They also merged branches, suggesting involvement in managing code integrations and contributing to the overall project structure. Furthermore, the user appears to have worked on tests and refactored code by removing deprecated libraries.
api-gatewayecsgolangcenterdistributed
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