Nick Kubala
Member Of Technical Staff at ATOMS
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Kubala is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native tooling and developer workflows, currently leading Product-Led Growth engineering at Otter. He spent several years at Google focused on containers and Kubernetes developer experience, authoring and maintaining widely used open-source tools such as container-diff, container-structure-test, and contributing core features to google/go-containerregistry and Skaffold. His work spans backend development, DevOps, and test automation—improving build systems, refactoring utilities, and expanding cross-version integration tests for minikube. At Clover he tackled large-scale database sharding and custom SQL parsing, and earlier research roles at NASA and UT Austin reflect a strong foundation in formal methods and software evolution. Based in San Francisco, he blends hands-on engineering with a pragmatic focus on developer productivity and reliable CI/CD for container ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
English, Spanish
Github Skills (30)
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
scripting10
testing10
bash10
containerization10
dockers10
cicd10
gcp10
script10
go10
bazel10
build-automation10
kubernetes-pods10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleContainerTools/container-diff
Aug 2017 - Jul 2021
container-diff: Diff your Docker containers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 8 reviews, 217 commits in 4 years
Contributions summary:Nick's contributions focused on refactoring and exporting utility methods within the `container-diff` project. They primarily modified and added functionality to the `utils` package, indicating work on the project's internal tools. This involved changes to diff utilities, file system utilities, and test utilities, demonstrating an understanding of the project's core functionality. This refactoring improved the organization and usability of several core features.
docker-container
GoogleContainerTools/container-structure-test
Oct 2016 - Nov 2021
validate the structure of your container images
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:23 releases, 8 reviews, 124 commits in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Nick contributed to the container-structure-test repository by implementing features and improving the testing framework. Their work involved adding support for JSON configuration files, modifying test command flags, and allowing for overriding the base image entrypoint. The user also implemented support for running commands in shell mode and added the ability to set environment variables, check exit codes, and use subtests, and created a script to run structure tests outside of cloud build.
container-image
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