Michael Crute
Software Engineer at Alpine Linux
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarMichael Crute is a software engineer and principal with 11 years of experience building distributed systems, web applications, and developer tools, currently based in Seattle. He splits his time between professional engineering roles and running Pomona Consulting, bringing hands-on expertise in cloud-native infrastructure and back-end development. An active open-source maintainer, Michael contributes to Kubernetes projects (notably the AWS cloud provider and shared utilities) and co-leads Alpine Linux’s cloud sub-project, producing ready-to-run images for multiple providers. His work combines dependency management, build tooling, and reliability-focused test improvements, reflecting a bias toward maintainable, production-ready systems. Known for preferring Signal or email for detailed conversations, he balances leadership with continual tinkering and community-driven contributions.
11 years of coding experience
English, French
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Github Skills (22)
kubernetes10
cloud-infrastructure10
go10
aws10
kubernetes-pods10
k8s10
kr8s10
testing9
networking8
file-operations8
makefile7
e-mail6
iterator6
iphone6
virtualenv6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/cloud-provider-aws
Sep 2018 - Feb 2019
Cloud provider for AWS
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:10 commits, 17 PRs, 33 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on maintaining and updating the cloud provider for AWS, specifically within the Kubernetes ecosystem. Their contributions include updating package dependencies to the latest versions, which is a key part of maintaining the project. They also modified the cloud controller manager command and added build scripts. These changes directly support the AWS cloud provider implementation within the Kubernetes project.
awsk8s-sig-cloud-provider
kubernetes/utils
Oct 2018 - Jan 2019
Non-Kubernetes-specific utility libraries which are consumed by multiple projects.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 4 PRs, 43 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Michael's contributions primarily involve merging utility libraries from the core kubernetes/kubernetes repository into this utility repository. These merges include functionality related to networking, file operations, and clock functionality, as well as general utility functions. The code changes touch upon various testing related files, indicating an emphasis on ensuring the functionality of these utilities.
kubernetesgolang
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