Philip Lombardi
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolPhilip Lombardi is a Principal Software Engineer based in Boston with 11 years building resilient, cloud-native backends and developer tooling, currently shaping Kubernetes control planes at Microsoft. He designs mission-critical APIs and automation for AKS, led the port for the JEDI project, and built encrypted storage and fast backup/restore systems that enable near-instant cluster recovery. Earlier he was the first backend/platform engineer at Datawire, authoring a high-availability SaaS backend and CI/CD pipelines while speaking widely on microservices and ops at major conferences. Philip is an active open-source contributor to Kubernetes ecosystem projects like Telepresence and Emissary, where he’s improved CI/CD, bootstrapping systems, and supervisor APIs. Known for moving teams from scripting to idiomatic Go, he combines low-level systems rigor with pragmatic platform thinking. His GitHub bio—“Reticulating Splines”—hints at a pragmatic engineer with a wry sense for smoothing complex systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts Philosophy at Stonehill College
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Github Skills (28)
kubernetes10
docker10
bash10
travis-ci10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
automations10
github-ci9
api-gateway9
githubaction-workflow9
api-management8
cloud-native8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
emissary-ingress/emissary
Jun 2017 - Feb 2019
open source Kubernetes-native API gateway for microservices built on the Envoy Proxy
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:83 commits, 15 PRs, 67 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Philip's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline for the `emissary-ingress/emissary` repository. They updated and refactored Travis CI configuration, including setting up new build scripts, passing branch and commit information, and configuring Docker image builds. Additionally, the user implemented and tested the generation and deployment of website documentation, and they set up Netlify for publishing.
api-gatewayproxyreverse-proxyambassadorapi-management
telepresenceio/telepresence
Aug 2017 - May 2019
Local development against a remote Kubernetes or OpenShift cluster
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:60 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Philip contributed to the bootstrapping of a new "kubewatch"-like system, starting with the entrypoint and adding IntelliJ ignore files. They also merged code, most notably bringing in master branch changes. The primary area of contribution appears to be the "gorgonzola" package, which seems to be a supervisor API.
local-developmentproxyvpndockeropenshift
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