Marin Staykov
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at UserVoice
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarMarin Staykov is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating resilient infrastructure, currently based in Oakland, CA and working at Fathom.ai. He blends deep infrastructure management with software development, focusing on stability, performance, and simplicity across cloud-native systems. Marin has a strong track record at UserVoice where he progressed from developer to senior SRE, and he brings hands-on experience implementing security and operational features in open-source projects like the Redis Operator for Kubernetes. His contributions show a pragmatic emphasis on authentication, secrets management, and automated failover—areas that reduce incident surface while enabling scalable operations. Goal-oriented and detail-focused, he favors practical solutions that minimize complexity and maximize uptime.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bulgarian
Github Skills (10)
kubernetes10
authentication10
user-authentication10
go10
redis-client10
redis10
kubernetes-pods10
operator10
testing9
api-design8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
spotahome/redis-operator
Sep 2019 - Sep 2021
Redis Operator creates/configures/manages high availability redis with sentinel automatic failover atop Kubernetes.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:67 commits, 5 PRs, 17 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Marin primarily focused on implementing authentication features within the Redis Operator. They added auth settings to the RedisFailover spec, which involved modifying types, implementing auth settings in the heal service, and updating the redis client interface. Furthermore, the user worked on integrating the secret service and modifying existing unit and integration tests to support the new authentication features. This work demonstrates a focus on security and operational aspects of the operator.
redisavailabilityredis-clientoperatorredis-operator
hoffoo/elasticsearch-dump
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:3 releases, 52 commits, 49 pushes in 2 days
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