Morgan Bauer
Software Engineer at Cloudera
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMorgan Bauer is a software engineer with a decade of hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale container and Kubernetes environments, including running clusters of over 1,000 nodes. He combines deep upstream open-source contributions (notably to Kubernetes, Docker/Moby, and the retired Service Catalog) with practical SRE and operator work at companies like Lyft and Cloudera, frequently shipping Go-based tooling and test reliability improvements. Morgan has a track record of improving CI/test quality, stabilizing control planes, and migrating production clusters across major Kubernetes versions while carrying patches upstream. A seasoned developer advocate and public educator, he regularly presents at conferences and creates training material that helps grow contributor communities. Less obvious: he pairs systems-level engineering with protocol- and crypto-adjacent work in Hyperledger Fabric and holds a General Class amateur radio license, reflecting a curiosity for distributed systems and networks.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer Engineering, Masters Computer Engineering at University of Florida
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Github Skills (39)
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
consensus10
apidoc10
api-design10
testing10
distributed-ledger-technology10
software-quality10
dockers10
refactor10
cicd10
distributed-ledger10
go10
api10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-retired/service-catalog
Dec 2016 - Jun 2019
Consume services in Kubernetes using the Open Service Broker API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & System Architect
Back-end Developer & System ArchitectContributions:17 releases, 202 commits, 260 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Morgan primarily contributed to the creation of the service-catalog apiserver, which involved setting up runtime and etcd configurations, authentication, and authorization. The user worked on core components like the apiserver, which is a simplified and specific design of the k8s apiserver using refactored APIs, including implementing basic server functionalities and setting hostname configurations for generated certificates. The contributions included code changes and comments to the codebase.
kubernetesservice-brokerk8s-sig-service-catalog
docker-archive/classicswarm
Aug 2015 - Apr 2016
Swarm Classic: a container clustering system. Not to be confused with Docker Swarm which is at https://github.com/docker/swarmkit
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:24 commits, 31 PRs, 4 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Morgan contributed to the `docker-archive/classicswarm` repository by implementing features related to the swarm API, including the `--until` flag for event handling, and handling OPTIONS requests for CORS. They also refactored code related to event handling and volume management, migrating to use the `apiClient` for certain operations. Furthermore, the user made changes to testing and build scripts and addressed issues to enhance the overall functionality and maintainability of the project.
clusteringdockerdocker-swarm
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