Luis Pabón
MTS Architect at Hammerspace
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLuis Pabón is an experienced architect and technical leader with 11+ years building and guiding cloud-native storage and Kubernetes integrations, currently serving as MTS Architect at Hammerspace and technical lead for CNCF SIG-Storage. He has driven architecture and delivery at companies like Pure Storage, Portworx, CoreOS, and Red Hat, combining deep systems expertise in storage, containers, and distributed systems. A prolific open-source contributor and maintainer within the Kubernetes CSI ecosystem, his work on projects like the external-provisioner and csi-test improved provisioning, testing, and CSI v1.0 migrations used broadly across cloud-native storage stacks. Luis blends hands-on backend and DevOps engineering with technical writing and process leadership, ensuring reliable e2e test environments and clearer docs for complex integrations. Based in Boston, he brings a practical systems mindset grounded in earlier firmware and storage research work (NetApp/EMC) and a habit of sharing knowledge through talks and community leadership.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteBA Electrical Engineering, BA Electrical Engineering at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Spanish, English
Github Skills (30)
markdown10
kubernetes10
docker10
apidoc10
testing10
storage10
dockers10
automation10
go10
markdown-it10
api10
kubernetes-pods10
golang10
container-storage-interface10
automations10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-csi/csi-test
Oct 2017 - Feb 2021
CSI test frameworks
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 releases, 135 commits, 95 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Luis contributed to the development and testing of the CSI (Container Storage Interface) test frameworks. Their work includes implementing and testing mock drivers, defining test cases, and integrating with gRPC. The user's commits demonstrate expertise in Go, gRPC, and utilizing testing frameworks like Gomock and Ginkgo within the Kubernetes ecosystem. Additionally, the user set up a reliable server pattern for the mock driver and also implemented a working e2e test environment.
containersgolangk8s-sig-storageginkgotesting
libopenstorage/openstorage
Oct 2017 - Sep 2022
A multi-host clustered implementation of the open storage specification
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 66 reviews, 835 commits in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Luis's contributions center around fixing and improving the codebase. They primarily addressed format and vet issues by modifying files related to API clients, cluster configurations, volume drivers (Coprhd), and alert systems. Furthermore, they updated vendoring dependencies within the project. Their work involved refining existing code, suggesting a focus on maintaining code quality and consistency within the openstorage project.
drivermulti-hosthostdaemonspecification
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