Ramon Quitales
Founder at Ailaga
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRamon Quitales is a founder and senior software engineer with nine years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, developer tooling, and data platforms from research prototypes to production. He led the Pulumi Kubernetes provider and contributed to Google Cloud Anthos and open-source Kubernetes tooling (kpt/cli-utils), demonstrating deep expertise in Kubernetes, Go, and infrastructure-as-code. Ramon has shipped critical provider features, partnered with cloud teams at Google, and resolved hundreds of community issues—skills he now channels into Ailaga, a startup focused on simplifying complex health journeys for families. His background combining physical chemistry, data science, and high-throughput systems engineering gives him a rare blend of analytical rigor and pragmatic engineering—evident in prior work building real-time ETL pipelines, gRPC services for high-value financial transactions, and custom deployment tooling.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Wellington CollegeBachelor of Science (Honours) - BSc(Hons) First Class Physical Chemistry, Bachelor of Science (Honours) - BSc(Hons) First Class Physical Chemistry at University of Auckland
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (16)
configuration-management10
kubernetes10
go10
devops10
kubernetes-pods10
cli10
api-design9
package9
packing9
yaml9
gitops9
api9
packaging9
apim9
validations8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
kptdev/kpt
Nov 2021 - Sep 2022
Automate Kubernetes Configuration Editing
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:59 reviews, 12 commits, 18 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Ramon primarily contributes to the `kpt` project by addressing issues related to Kubernetes configuration management. They implemented fixes to improve the consistency and accuracy of the code, specifically by using `KptFileKind` instead of `KptFileName`. The user also added structs for ResourceGroup objects, enabling the migration of inventory information and integration with existing kpt processes. Furthermore, they ensured that deleted resources reported a `NotFound` status, resolving reconcile issues.
kubernetes-configurationshift-leftpolicy-as-codeconfig-as-datakrm
rquitales/kpt
Nov 2021 - Nov 2022
A Git-native, schema-aware, extensible client-side tool for packaging, customizing, validating, and applying Kubernetes resources.
Contributions:10 PRs, 110 pushes, 27 branches in 1 year
client-sidepackagingdeveloper-toolsdevtoolkubernetes
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