Miles Garnsey
Founder Engineer at Atreus Technologies
Sydney, New South Wales, France
Summary
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Top SchoolMiles Garnsey is a Founder Engineer and distributed systems specialist with 11 years of experience designing cloud-native infrastructure, primarily in Go and Kubernetes. He led core engineering for k8ssandra—an influential open-source Cassandra distribution—and architected DataStax Mission Control’s scalable control plane and observability subsystem to manage hundreds of nodes across multi-cloud environments. Miles combines hands-on operator and SRE work (autoscaling, Prometheus/Mimir, Grafana, Argo, Kubeflow) with deep expertise in cross-tenancy, consistency, and production troubleshooting for Fortune 500 customers. He runs a consultancy delivering platform architecture, security automation, and MLOps for public sector, gaming and fintech clients, bringing a quant background that sharpens his focus on correctness and performance. Known for pragmatic, production-first designs, he’s comfortable coordinating distributed teams and shipping end-to-end systems that bridge databases, streaming, and orchestration.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
The University of SydneyUNSW Sydney
Github Skills (13)
crt10
kubernetes10
go10
helm10
devops10
cassandra10
crdt10
cassandra-database10
kubernetes-pods10
testing9
yaml9
controller9
cicd8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
k8ssandra/k8ssandra
Jan 2021 - Nov 2022
K8ssandra is an open-source distribution of Apache Cassandra for Kubernetes including API services and operational tooling.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:13 reviews, 8 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Miles primarily focused on enhancing the K8ssandra project, particularly in relation to Apache Cassandra 4x features. They implemented features like FQL, audit logging, and client backpressure, which involved modifying templates and values within the Helm charts. Additionally, they contributed to Stargate compatibility, ensuring its functionality with Cassandra 4x deployments and updated the CRD upgrader for k8ssandra-operator, including dependency upgrades and test adjustments.
cassandrak8ssandrakubernetesnosqlhelm
Miles-Garnsey/k8ssandra-operator
Sep 2021 - Jun 2025
The Kubernetes operator for K8ssandra
Contributions:11 PRs, 414 pushes, 57 branches in 3 years 9 months
k8ssandrakubernetes-operator
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