Noah Fontes
Software Architect, Office Of The CTO at Montviridian
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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RockstarNoah Fontes is a business-minded software architect with 19 years of experience building highly available, ROI-focused systems across distributed architectures, data warehousing, and platform integration. Based in Portland and currently in the Office of the CTO at Perforce while running Montviridian, he blends hands-on engineering with strategic product thinking to deliver pragmatic, well-designed software. He has deep expertise in online advertising, automation, and system administration, and routinely refactors complex codebases for maintainability and operational efficiency. An active open-source contributor, Noah has improved Kubernetes support for the widely used Emissary Ingress controller—enhancing Knative compatibility and resource processing for better runtime behavior. Colleagues rely on him to translate ambiguous requirements into auditable, production-ready systems that scale.
19 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
env10
api-management10
kubernetes10
envoyproxy10
python10
api-gateway10
kubernetes-pods10
knative10
convoy10
dockers9
docker9
microservices8
microservices-application8
open-source8
php6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
emissary-ingress/emissary
Mar 2020 - May 2021
open source Kubernetes-native API gateway for microservices built on the Envoy Proxy
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 18 PRs, 26 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Noah's contributions focused on improving Kubernetes support for the Emissary Ingress controller. They modified the resource fetching mechanism to better handle Knative CRDs, streamlining the process and emitting mappings directly. Furthermore, the user refactored code related to Kubernetes resource processing, introducing new classes for better organization and maintainability, and also handled Ambassador v1 CRDs. These changes enhance the controller's compatibility with Knative and refine its overall operational efficiency.
api-gatewayproxyreverse-proxyambassadorapi-management
puppetlabs/relay-rfcs
Jul 2019 - Dec 2020
Technical standards and practices for Relay projects
Contributions:3 reviews, 55 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year 4 months
reactrelaystandardsrelay-moderngraphql
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