Marcelo Viveros is a software engineer with eight years' experience building reliable, cloud-native networking and test automation solutions across telecom and open-source ecosystems. He has shipped production code at Ericsson, Nokia, Red Hat and now Isovalent, focusing on Kubernetes networking, load-balancing and conformance testing. Marcelo contributes to prominent OSS projects like MetalLB and the OpenShift conformance suite, where his work on IP allocation, annotation checks and test hardening improved resilience and reduced flaky tests. Trained in electrical engineering at TU Delft and pursuing machine learning studies at Georgia Tech, he blends systems-level rigor with a growing ML perspective. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic refactors and careful fixes that prioritize correctness and maintainability over quick hacks. Based in the Randstad, he brings telecom-grade discipline to open-source and cloud-native networking challenges.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science - Machine Learning, Master's degree, Computer Science - Machine Learning at Georgia Institute of Technology
Bachelor, Electronic Engineering, Bachelor, Electronic Engineering at Universidad del Valle (CO)
Master's degree, Electrical Engineering, Master's degree, Electrical Engineering at Delft University of Technology
A network load-balancer implementation for Kubernetes using standard routing protocols
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:93 reviews, 17 PRs, 127 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Marcelo primarily contributed to the backend logic of the metallb project, focusing on improving the Kubernetes load balancer implementation. Their work involved refactoring code, removing redundant return values, and adding checks for annotation compatibility. They also addressed various issues related to IP allocation and service convergence. Furthermore, they added tests and fixed formatting errors.
Contributions:8 reviews, 6 PRs, 47 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Marcelo primarily contributed to the OpenShift conformance test suite. Their commits added new tests for the tap plugin, focusing on verifying the functionality of tap interfaces within the OpenShift environment. Additionally, the user reverted a change related to VLAN testing and implemented fixes to address test failures, including increasing timeouts and ignoring infra nodes in tests, enhancing the reliability of the testing process.
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