Pete Birley
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPete Birley is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building secure, reliable infrastructure for cloud, edge, hybrid, and AI workloads, currently guiding teams at Microsoft. He combines deep open-source leadership—former OpenStack-Helm and LOCI project lead and core reviewer—with telco-grade systems design from AT&T, where he architected CI/CD for 5G core and optimized containerized OpenStack for fast upgrades. Pete is hands-on in Kubernetes, Helm, and Ceph, and has contributed infrastructure-level improvements like SR-IOV networking support and TLS-enabled ingress in the widely used openstack-helm project. Based in Missouri, he blends systems engineering, SRE practices, and developer enablement to deliver auditable, scalable platforms and has a track record of reducing deployment times and operational overhead through idempotent automation. An uncommon strength is his background in mechanical engineering and CFD-driven infrastructure work, which informs a pragmatic, performance-focused approach to platform design.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BEng(Hons) Mechanical Engineering, BEng(Hons) Mechanical Engineering at Edinburgh Napier University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
kubernetes10
bash10
docker10
kubeadm10
openstack10
dockers10
kubernetes-pods10
networking9
ansible9
ansible-galaxy9
kubernetes-networking9
ingress8
cicd8
srv8
kubernetes-helm6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/openstack-helm
Apr 2017 - Jan 2021
Helm charts for deploying OpenStack on Kubernetes. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:578 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Pete primarily focused on setting up and maintaining the infrastructure for deploying OpenStack on Kubernetes. They created a container for setting up a Kubeadm-based AIO environment, including tools for development and gating. Their work involved modifying and fixing scripts related to the Kubeadm-aio container, particularly focusing on volume mounts and network configuration for the underlying k8s cluster. They added support for SR-IOV in networking configuration. The user also added the support for TLS certificates to the ingress controller.
helmkubernetesopenstack
portdirect/portdirect.github.io
May 2016 - Dec 2019
port.direct landing page
Contributions:94 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
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