Luke Olbrish
Staff Engineer at Rippling
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolLuke Olbrish is a Staff Engineer in San Francisco with 15 years of hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale infrastructure, platform, and CI/CD systems. He has led Kubernetes, gitops, and automation efforts at Zynga and now Rippling, building Go-based tooling and Terraform/Helm-driven platforms that manage hundreds of nodes and thousands of pods. Comfortable across the stack, Luke has reduced operational toil through automation, improved reliability with resilient deployment patterns, and tuned systems for significant cost and throughput gains. His background spans container orchestration (Mesos, ECS, Kubernetes), streaming and data processing (Spark, Kafka), and systems-level engineering dating back to embedded device work at Compaq. A pragmatic problem-solver, he pairs deep technical fluency with real-world incident response and knowledge transfer, and once proved his persistence and planning skills by hiking the Pacific Crest Trail end-to-end.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (8)
flexibility9
kubernetes-node9
nodejs9
autoscaling9
k8s8
kubernetes7
typescript1
generator1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
lukeolbrish/examples
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:15 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
lolbrish/karpenter-provider-aws
Jun 2024 - Jun 2024
Karpenter is a Kubernetes Node Autoscaler built for flexibility, performance, and simplicity.
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
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