Liam White
Lead Software Engineer at Docusign
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLiam White is a Lead Software Engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and developer-focused tooling, currently working on container registry and Istio service mesh initiatives. He combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership, driving migrations to Kubernetes, adoption of Istio, and customer-focused observability to shrink deployment and maintenance overhead. A core Istio contributor and lead maintainer of Portieris, he has implemented production-hardened features like graceful shutdown in the Istio proxy and helped deliver hosted platform offerings on AKS/EKS. Liam has reduced incident resolution times via an automated CVE program and built operators and automation that turned multi-week setups into self-service minutes. Based in Seattle, he pairs solid product metrics and billing experience with a knack for making complex distributed systems easier and less frustrating for engineers.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of ReadingNorwich School
Stackoverflow
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1kreached
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2questions
Github Skills (21)
env10
service-mesh10
kubernetes10
docker10
envoyproxy10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
automation-testing10
kubernetes-pods10
automations10
convoy10
go9
minikube6
codeigniter6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
istio/istio
Feb 2019 - Aug 2020
Connect, secure, control, and observe services.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:26 reviews, 21 commits, 72 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Liam primarily worked on implementing graceful shutdown mechanisms within the Istio proxy agent. Their contributions involved modifying the proxy agent code, including adding draining bootstrap, draining open connections, and implementing termination logic. They also addressed related issues in the build and deployment infrastructure, such as docker configuration, and made changes to the pilot-agent command-line tool to integrate with graceful termination. Additionally, the user added tests to ensure the correct functioning of these shutdown features.
circuit-breakerenforce-policiesistioapi-managementmicroservice
liamawhite/talks-debugging-istio
Jul 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:2 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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