Reto L
Principal Software Architect Engineer Co-Founder at Berner Fachhochschule BFH
Greater Bern Area Switzerland
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Top SchoolReto L is a Principal Software Architect, engineer and co-founder based in the Greater Bern Area with over a decade building and operating large-scale, cloud-native systems using Java, Go, TypeScript and modern frameworks like Spring Boot and Quarkus. He designs enterprise-grade platforms (including on-prem Kubernetes with LDAP RBAC, PSP defaults and Calico isolation), architects company-wide development stacks, and has operated OpenShift fleets of thousands of containers. A former Red Hat principal engineer and active Knative contributor, he blends deep operational expertise—CI/CD, ArgoCD, Helm, operators—with hands-on development and automation for peak-load systems (e.g., Black Friday e‑commerce). As an adjunct professor he teaches microservice integration and operations, and holds multiple advanced certificates in cloud computing and software architecture, reflecting a continuous learning mindset. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, security-aware platform blueprints that accelerate delivery without sacrificing reliability.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Advanced Studies Information Technology, Master of Advanced Studies Information Technology at Berner Fachhochschule BFH
Github Skills (18)
kubernetes10
networking10
cicd10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
serverless10
devops10
knative10
documentation10
testing9
markdown9
automation9
markdown-it9
automations9
docker8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
knative/serving
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Kubernetes-based, scale-to-zero, request-driven compute
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:331 reviews, 1 commit, 74 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Reto primarily contributes to the Knative/serving repository by addressing infrastructural and operational aspects. Their work includes enhancing end-to-end tests, migrating dependencies, and integrating with certificate management systems. Moreover, they demonstrate expertise in automation by incorporating shell scripts for testing and streamlining deployments, ultimately optimizing operational efficiency. They also worked on adding certificate watchers to the queue-proxy and implementing cluster-local domain TLS.
golangzerodeveloper-productivitynetworkingserverless
knative/docs
Nov 2022 - Oct 2024
User documentation for Knative components.
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:142 reviews, 27 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Reto primarily contributes to the Knative documentation repository. Their work includes updating the documentation to reflect new release versions, fixing deprecation warnings and updating CSS for the documentation, and adding the Linux Foundation trademark to the footer. The user also addresses cookie usage and analytics details within the documentation. These contributions ensure the accuracy, completeness, and usability of the Knative documentation.
paasuser-documentationserverlessknativeistio
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