Ray Wainman
Staff Engineer at Faire
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolRay Wainman is a Staff Engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, now at Faire after a long tenure leading Kubernetes autoscaling and observability efforts at Google. He blends hands-on DevOps work—maintaining and hardening key components like the Kubernetes autoscaler and Vertical Pod Autoscaler—with people leadership and platform-level architecture. Ray’s practical focus on deployment tooling, version management, and operational fixes demonstrates a bias for production reliability and avoiding runtime conflicts in managed environments. Based in Kitchener, Ontario, he brings deep institutional knowledge of GKE-scale problems and a knack for subtle, low-level fixes that prevent cascading failures in large clusters.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc. Computer Engineering - Software Option Co-Op Computer Software Engineering, BSc. Computer Engineering - Software Option Co-Op Computer Software Engineering at University of Alberta
French, English
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Github Skills (9)
kubernetes10
bash10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
dockers9
automation9
automations9
docker9
go5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/autoscaler
Aug 2024 - Apr 2025
Autoscaling components for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 70 reviews, 25 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Ray primarily focused on updating and maintaining the deployment configurations and scripts for the Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) component within the Kubernetes autoscaler repository. Their contributions include bumping the VPA version in various deployment scripts and configuration files, ensuring the correct version is used. They also made minor fixes to scripts related to certificate generation and VPA startup, and also modified the recommender's lease name to avoid potential conflicts in a managed environment.
k8skubernetesautoscaling
oohoo/moodle-qtype_mathexpression
May 2013 - Jul 2013
Contributions:66 commits in 1 month
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