Riaan Kleinhans
Senior Technical Program Manager at Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
George Local Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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RockstarRiaan Kleinhans is a Senior Technical Program Manager who blends deep automotive manufacturing discipline with hands‑on cloud‑native engineering to reliably drive complex, cross‑functional initiatives to delivery. He has led Kubernetes conformance and infra projects at CNCF and the Linux Foundation, contributing e2e and conformance tests to the flagship kubernetes/kubernetes repo and raising test coverage through active community engagement. Comfortable switching contexts, he moved from managing international automotive programs and standards training to mastering Linux, Git workflows, Emacs/Org-mode, BigQuery and Golang. Known for bringing order and measurable progress to visionary engineering teams, he combines audit‑grade process rigor with a curiosity for data that informs better program decisions.
6 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (11)
e2e-test10
e2e-testing10
kubernetes10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
api-testing10
testing10
cnc9
container8
dockers5
docker5
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/kubernetes
Dec 2020 - Nov 2022
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:48 reviews, 24 commits, 142 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Riaan primarily focused on extending and creating end-to-end (e2e) tests for Kubernetes APIs. They added tests to validate functionalities like reading API service status, patching API services, listing API services, and validating subresources for various components like deployments, replica sets, and daemon sets. Their work included interacting with scale subresources and ensuring proper testing of the lifecycle of components like replica sets. Furthermore, the user promoted several tests to conformance.
containersschedulingdockergradeproduction-grade
riaankleinhans/people
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
Stores the data that will populate the various people listings on cncf.io
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 9 months
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