Mac Chaffee
Platform Engineer
United States
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Top SchoolMac Chaffee is a Platform Engineer with 11 years of experience building secure, production-grade Kubernetes platforms and cloud-native infrastructure, currently at Anaconda. He blends deep Kubernetes expertise, DevSecOps focus, and site reliability practices honed across roles at Cisco, RENCI, Qdrant, and research computing, bringing both developer and operations perspectives. Early work at Cisco managing multi-node clusters and enforcing secure SDLCs informs his pragmatic approach to reliability and compliance. An active contributor to Kubernetes multi-tenancy testing, he emphasizes robust test coverage and security checks that prevent privilege escalation in shared clusters. Mac’s background in scientific computing and scalable systems gives him a knack for translating complex research workloads into dependable, auditable platforms.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at North Carolina State University
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Github Skills (14)
kubernetes10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
test-automation10
kubectl9
rbac9
django-models6
ceph6
radosgw6
generator6
django-forms6
forms6
python6
django6
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-retired/multi-tenancy
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
A working place for multi-tenancy related proposals and prototypes.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 9 commits, 3 PRs in 15 days
Contributions summary:Mac contributed significantly to the testing framework within the `multi-tenancy` repository. Their work includes adding new benchmarks for role privilege escalation, fixing error handling in command-line tools, and incorporating checks related to the AlwaysPullImages admission plugin. These changes demonstrate a focus on enhancing test coverage and ensuring the security and proper functioning of multi-tenancy configurations within Kubernetes. Further work includes adding validation steps for the pod creation process in the AlwaysPullImages benchmark.
placeisolationproposalsprototypestenancy
mac-chaffee/ncsu-menu-notifier
Sep 2016 - Oct 2019
A website that will notify you via text when your favorite dish is being served at any NC State dining hall
Contributions:1 PR, 132 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 1 month
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