Michael Ruoss
Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer at Cradle
Stäfa, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Ruoss is a Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer and former Co-CTO with 12 years of company-building experience and over a decade of hands-on work designing cloud-native infrastructure and backend systems. An ETH Zurich MSc in Computer Science with a Software Engineering focus, he is a π-shaped full-stack engineer who blends deep backend and SysOps/CloudOps expertise with platform-minded DevOps practices. He has repeatedly migrated and operated production workloads from traditional servers to Kubernetes on GCP, most recently contributing Kubernetes runtime and networking features to the Livebook Elixir project. Based in Zurich, he pairs startup instincts from founding roles with enterprise-grade engineering at firms like Steiner and Cradle, and is known for improving runtime environments through pragmatic automation and dependency integrations.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Msc Computer Science - Software Engineering, Msc Computer Science - Software Engineering at ETH Zürich
German, English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
kubernetes10
cloud-infrastructure10
devops10
back-end-development10
elixir10
kubernetes-pods10
networking9
distributed-computing8
kind6
html6
npm6
browser-history6
typescript6
eslint6
google-chrome6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
livebook-dev/livebook
Dec 2023 - Oct 2024
Automate code & data workflows with interactive Elixir notebooks
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:40 reviews, 8 PRs, 58 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Michael's contributions primarily involve updating and integrating dependencies, particularly related to Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure. They updated the `dns_cluster` and `kubereq` dependencies, demonstrating an understanding of network and Kubernetes communication. Furthermore, they implemented features for Kubernetes runtime, including the creation of pods, port forwarding, and initial namespace configuration, highlighting DevOps and back-end engineering skills. These changes appear to be geared toward improving the project's deployment and runtime environment.
chartsmathrealtimeliveviewelixir
mruoss/pluggable
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Elixir library to build Plug-like pipelines
Contributions:3 releases, 30 commits, 82 PRs in 3 months
elixir-librarypipelineelixirpipelinesplug
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