Luis Garcia
Software Engineer at SOMOS ™: Central Coast Tech Association
Salinas, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLuis Garcia is a software engineer with 11 years of experience and a focused 4-year track record building cloud-native back-end systems and operational tooling. He has shipped production services for agriculture IoT, contributed to Kubernetes application management at Replicated (notably on the popular KOTS project), and worked across deployment, monitoring, and schema/dependency integrations. Comfortable in fast-paced environments, he blends hands-on DevOps and back-end engineering with end-to-end system testing and protocol design. Based in Salinas, California, Luis pairs a practical CS background from California State University, Monterey Bay with a habit of continuous learning and pragmatic problem solving. An under-the-radar strength is his cross-domain experience—from visualizing telecom test data to designing device command-and-control—giving him a knack for turning messy operational requirements into reliable, maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at California State University, Monterey BayAssociate's Degree, Computer Science, Associate's Degree, Computer Science at Hartnell College
English, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
gitops10
kubernetes10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml9
helm9
prometheus8
docker8
dockers8
g7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
replicatedhq/kots
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
KOTS provides the framework, tools and integrations that enable the delivery and management of 3rd-party Kubernetes applications, a.k.a. Kubernetes Off-The-Shelf (KOTS) Software.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:44 reviews, 23 commits, 51 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Luis primarily contributes to the repository's infrastructure and back-end functionality, particularly around the deployment and management of Kubernetes applications. They added support for schemahero and bumped dexidp versions, indicating work on application dependencies and configuration. The user also implemented changes to the Prometheus metrics configuration and the KOTS support bundle, suggesting involvement in monitoring and operational aspects of the application. Furthermore, the user made updates related to GKE Autopilot and refactored existing code.
golangpartykubernetes-applicationsshelfgo
garcialuis/Gossip
Jun 2020 - Feb 2021
Gossip - A forum application written in GoLang
Contributions:30 PRs, 80 pushes, 17 branches in 8 months
golangforumforum-applicationfynegossip
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