Summary
Petr Mcallister is an engineer with 9 years of hands-on experience delivering cloud-native and networking solutions for Bay Area startups and large enterprises across healthcare, finance, government, and telecom. He specializes in service mesh (Istio/Envoy), Kubernetes/OpenShift, and automation with Terraform and Ansible, and holds multiple cloud and security certifications including CKA, GCP Professional Cloud Architect, AWS SAA and CISSP. At Tetrate he deploys and troubleshoots enterprise service mesh and builds Kubernetes platforms while coding API integrations for cloud marketplaces and shaping product direction from customer feedback. A longtime VMware networking specialist and VMUG leader, he blends deep network virtualization expertise (NSX, SDN) with a developer mindset—actively coding in Go and blogging about infrastructure and security. Based in Vancouver, he pairs customer-facing clarity with technical depth to turn complex requirements into reliable, production-ready systems.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Programing, Bachelor of Technology, Computer Programing at Moscow Electrical Engineering College
Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute)
English, Russian