Rafael Schloming
Roboticist - Infra & Cloud Engineer at The Boston Dynamics AI Institute
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Schloming is a seasoned roboticist and infra/cloud engineer with 15 years of experience building developer-focused DevOps platforms and cloud-native infrastructure. As a co-founder and former CTO of Ambassador Labs, he helped create widely used open-source tools for Kubernetes workflows—contributions that include deep networking and routing work in projects like Telepresence and the Emissary (Ambassador) API gateway built on Envoy. He blends systems-level C/C++ security fixes (e.g., AMQP/Qpid Proton) with high-level platform design, enabling teams to develop, test, and release independently with minimal friction. Now at the Boston Dynamics AI Institute, he applies that platform and networking expertise to robotics infrastructure at scale. Based in Somerville and MIT-trained in EE/CS, he’s as comfortable changing kernel-level networking code as he is defining production-grade developer experiences.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, BS, Computer Science & Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (35)
url-routing10
kubernetes10
docker10
ssl10
tls1210
envoyproxy10
amqp10
c1110
sasl10
networking10
tls1310
iptables10
dockers10
c1710
go10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
emissary-ingress/emissary
Oct 2017 - Mar 2022
open source Kubernetes-native API gateway for microservices built on the Envoy Proxy
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 releases, 26 reviews, 688 commits in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Rafael made significant contributions to routing, including enabling weighted routing to multiple services, reading configuration from annotated services, and implementing hot-restarts. They worked on building the tools that other people need to run the server. The user also addressed configuration-related issues by updating default timeouts.
api-gatewayproxyreverse-proxyambassadorapi-management
apache/qpid-proton
Nov 2014 - Aug 2015
Mirror of Apache Qpid Proton
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:197 commits, 17 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Rafael primarily focused on enhancing the security and stability of the Qpid Proton C library. Their contributions included fixing issues related to idle timeout during SASL authentication, which involved code modifications within the SSL/TLS and SASL components of the library. These changes addressed framing and event handling issues that could arise. Further enhancements included the addition of a new pn_record_t structure to provide more flexible contexts.
pythonprotonqpid-protonpython2ruby
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