Marly Salazar
Staff Software Engineer at Integral Ad Science
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMarly Salazar is a Staff Software Engineer in Seattle with a decade of experience building reliable back-end systems and cloud-native tooling. She has deep operational and platform experience from roles at Integral Ad Science, Lyell Immunopharma, AHEAD, and Verizon, often bridging system administration, automation, and production orchestration. An active open-source contributor to Kubernetes and kubectl, she has improved describe and wait behaviors used by millions of cluster operators, demonstrating care for UX in CLI tooling and edge-case robustness. Marly combines a mathematics background with hands-on infrastructure work—she’s equally comfortable authoring tests and implementing informer-driven improvements—and prefers not to be contacted about Amazon/AWS roles.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics at University of HoustonAttended, Physics, Attended, Physics at University of New Mexico
Github Skills (7)
kubernetes10
go10
kubectl10
api-design10
kubernetes-pods10
testing10
container9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/kubernetes
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:72 reviews, 10 commits, 14 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Marly primarily contributed to the `kubectl` command-line tool, focusing on enhancing the describe functionality for Kubernetes resources. Their work involved adding and modifying code to display Ingress class information and handle edge cases for empty values in the output. The user also updated tests to ensure the correct display of new fields and improved the presentation of empty values for IngressClassNames. Finally, the user modified the `kubectl wait` functionality.
containersschedulingdockergradeproduction-grade
kubernetes/kubectl
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
Issue tracker and mirror of kubectl code
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 187 comments, 3 issues in 9 months
Contributions summary:Marly primarily contributed to the `kubectl` codebase, focusing on improving describe output functionality. They added a feature to display the IngressClassName, modified tests to accommodate this new feature, and fixed a potential warning message. Furthermore, the user was involved in updating the wait functionality within `kubectl` to improve reliability and performance by utilizing informers, including related test updates.
trackerkubectlkubernetesk8s-stagingk8s-sig-cli
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