Mario Valderrama
Senior Software Engineer at Dynatrace
Austria
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Top SchoolMario Valderrama is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native platforms, currently based in Austria and working at Dynatrace after four years improving IONOS Cloud Managed Kubernetes. He specializes in Kubernetes, DevOps and cloud engineering, contributing to high-profile OSS projects like Cluster API and the Kubernetes autoscaler where he modernized dependency management, cross-platform build scripts, and bootstrap configurations. Mario combines platform reliability work with developer-focused tooling improvements that streamline builds and testing across environments, including macOS and zsh edge cases. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he often lands small but impactful infrastructure fixes that reduce friction for large teams and complex CI/CD pipelines.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Fachinformatiker für Anwendungsentwicklung, Fachinformatiker für Anwendungsentwicklung at OSZ Informations- und Medizintechnik
English, Spanish, German
Github Skills (18)
autoscaling10
kubernetes10
docker10
controller10
scripting10
run-time10
dockers10
cicd10
script10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
sh10
shell10
cloud-infrastructure9
test-framework8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/autoscaler
Oct 2020 - Apr 2022
Autoscaling components for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 12 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Mario primarily worked on improving the build and deployment process for the Kubernetes autoscaler project. Their contributions included fixing issues with the `update-vendor.sh` script to support different environments, especially macOS and zsh. Additionally, the user updated dependencies and refactored the project to use the latest versions of the cloud SDK and other tools. They also introduced a configuration option for the VPA installation.
k8skubernetesautoscaling
kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api
Nov 2019 - Dec 2019
Home for Cluster API, a subproject of sig-cluster-lifecycle
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Mario's contributions primarily involve updating and managing dependencies and tools within the `cluster-api` repository, a Kubernetes subproject. They updated dependencies for controller-runtime and client-go. They also updated tools dependencies and test framework dependencies, impacting build processes and testing infrastructure. Furthermore, the user modified the bootstrap configurations and added missing fields, indicating involvement in setting up and maintaining cluster initialization and configuration aspects.
apilifecyclesubprojectcluster-apisig
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