Max Cao
Software Engineer at Red Hat
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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RockstarMax Cao is a software engineer at Red Hat specializing in Golang-based autoscaling solutions for Kubernetes, contributing to VPA, HPA, KEDA, and AWS Karpenter on the OpenShift Autoscaling team. With five years of experience and a BASc in Computer Engineering from UBC, he designs scalable systems, builds CI/CD pipelines, and diagnoses production issues while actively contributing upstream to the Kubernetes sig-autoscaling community. He has a track record of performance and cost optimizations—from halving infrastructure costs during a Heroku→RHEL migration to improving frontend load times by 50%—and helped accelerate team workflows by introducing GitHub Actions and automation. Beyond code, he writes technical blog posts and bridges cross-functional teams to deliver enterprise-grade cloud-native solutions, combining hands-on engineering with strong open-source stewardship.
5 years of coding experience
Github Skills (60)
karpenter10
autoscaling10
podman10
mesos10
kubernetes10
docker10
recorder10
keda10
jvm10
kubernetes-monitoring10
java10
event-driven10
scheduling10
kubernetes-node10
mission-control10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
maxcao13/release
Jul 2024 - Jul 2026
Release tooling for OpenShift
Contributions:162 pushes, 57 branches in 1 year 11 months
maxcao13/vertical-pod-autoscaler-operator
Jul 2024 - Jun 2026
An Operator for running the Vertical Pod Autoscaler on OpenShift
Contributions:80 pushes, 30 branches in 1 year 11 months
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