Mike Petersen
Staff Technical Engagement Engineer at Crusoe
Vancouver, Washington, United States
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SeniorMike Petersen is a Staff Technical Engagement Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and automating complex Linux and cloud-native environments, specializing in Kubernetes and OpenStack. He blends deep systems and scripting skills with a knack for technical content—producing demos, videos, and marketing collateral that bridge product engineering and community education. Mike has a proven track record across startups and enterprise vendors (Crusoe, vCluster, IBM, Mirantis), often swapping between troubleshooting escalations and building reproducible automation for large-scale deployments. Known for breaking things to learn faster, he contributes to open source ecosystems and translates that experience into practical, maintainable solutions for operators and developers. Based in Vancouver, WA, he brings both field-facing empathy and strong implementation discipline to platform adoption and developer enablement.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (88)
twitch10
cloud-computing10
infrastructure10
istio10
serverless10
namespaces10
cloud-native10
k8s10
paas10
devspace10
faas10
catalog10
kubectl10
vcluster10
tenancy10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mpetason/preview-demo
Jan 2025 - Jan 2025
Contributions:107 PRs, 82 pushes, 9 branches in 10 days
mpetason/docs
Feb 2020 - Mar 2021
User documentation for Knative components
Contributions:44 pushes, 50 branches in 1 year 1 month
licensinguser-documentationknativekubernetes
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