Megan O'keefe
Senior Staff Developer Advocate
United States
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Top SchoolMegan O'keefe is a Senior Staff Developer Advocate at Google with a decade of experience building and promoting cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, and DevOps best practices. She has progressed through technical and leadership roles at Google—from Senior Developer Programs Engineer to Staff Manager—and brings hands-on experience automating multi-cluster Anthos deployments, Istio mesh setups, and CI/CD pipelines. Megan contributes to high-profile GoogleCloudPlatform samples (including the microservices and bank-of-anthos demos), where she’s improved backend financial logic, observability, and release automation. Comfortable bridging developer experience and operational rigor, she combines a CS background with creative writing studies at Oxford, which helps her craft clear technical guidance and developer-facing content. A pragmatic engineer who still commits to tooling and scripts, Megan excels at turning complex deployment lifecycles into repeatable, automated workflows.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Study abroad English and Creative Writing, Study abroad English and Creative Writing at University of OxfordBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science and English, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science and English at Wellesley CollegeGreat Valley High School
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Github Skills (38)
configuration-manager10
kubernetes10
github-ci10
docker10
scripting10
configuration-management10
bash10
dockers10
terraform10
java10
cicd10
gcp10
javas10
terraformer10
release-management10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/anthos-config-management-samples
Apr 2021 - Dec 2021
Code samples for Anthos Config Management
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 68 commits, 33 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Megan's contributions center around setting up and configuring infrastructure for Anthos Config Management within a multi-environment context. The commits demonstrate the creation of GKE clusters, registration of clusters with GKE Hub, and configuration of Config Sync. Furthermore, the user automates the creation and management of secrets using Google Secret Manager, including granting necessary access to Cloud Build. The changes also involve scripting for cluster deployment, enabling services, and Git repository setup, suggesting a focus on automating the deployment lifecycle.
acmpolicy-controllerskaffoldconfig-managementconfig-sync
GoogleCloudPlatform/istio-samples
Jan 2019 - Dec 2021
Istio demos and sample applications for GCP
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 37 commits, 95 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Megan primarily contributed to setting up and maintaining the infrastructure and deployment configurations for Istio demos within a GKE environment. Their work included modifications to shell scripts that automate cluster creation, Istio installation, and deployment of sample applications. They updated Istio versions, integrated with Helm, and configured firewall rules and VM settings to support mesh expansion and multi-cluster deployments.
istiogcpkubernetesgoogle-cloud
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