Pedro Duran
Engineer at MinIO
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarPedro Duran is a platform engineer with nine years of experience building and operating high-performance cloud infrastructure, currently contributing to MinIO’s Kubernetes operator and platform tooling. He blends backend and DevOps expertise—having led DevOps teams and shipped infra at companies from startups to enterprise—and focuses on Kubernetes operators, AWS, and performance-sensitive deployments. At MinIO he enhanced operator functionality (TLS toggles, service type configs, OpenShift support) and improved release and deployment automation, demonstrating both code and release-engineering impact on a widely used open-source storage project. Based in San Francisco, he brings practical cross-cloud experience and a knack for simplifying complex operator workflows, often addressing platform gaps that improve day‑to‑day developer and operator UX.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (16)
k8s-operator10
kubernetes10
minio10
go10
openshift10
kubectl10
operator-sdk10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
operator10
dockers9
bash9
docker9
helm7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
minio/operator
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Simple Kubernetes Operator for MinIO clusters :computer:
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:478 reviews, 20 commits, 413 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Pedro's contributions focused on enhancing the MinIO operator's functionality and improving its deployment process. They added the capability to disable TLS, modified service types based on configuration, and integrated pull secrets for the console. Further, the user addressed multiple issues related to the deployment and management of the operator, specifically relating to the `kubectl-minio` commands and release scripts. They also added and fixed various configurations to handle the operator on OpenShift platforms, along with the core code changes, the user also updated release scripts.
clustersoperatorminiok8skubernetes
pjuarezd/certified-operators
Jun 2023 - Feb 2025
Production catalog for Red Hat Certified Operator Bundles
Contributions:24 pushes, 25 branches in 1 year 7 months
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