Ricardo Katz
Software Engineer at Red Hat
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolRicardo Katz is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating cloud-native systems from São Paulo, Brazil. He maintains Kubernetes' widely used ingress-nginx controller and contributes to core Kubernetes components, bringing deep expertise in networking, ingress, and API changes such as NetworkPolicy endPort promotion. His background spans roles at Red Hat, Broadcom, VMware and leading cloud engineering for Serpro’s national public and private cloud projects, blending hands-on coding with DevOps and CI/CD ownership. Ricardo’s contributions to projects like Harbor and govmomi show a strong focus on secure authentication, LDAP/TLS enhancements and integrations with virtualization APIs. He combines low-level system knowledge with production-grade orchestration experience and a record of improving both code quality and community impact.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Pós Segurança da Informação, Pós Segurança da Informação at Faculdade IBTATecnologo Processamento de Dados, Tecnologo Processamento de Dados at Faculdade de Tecnologia de São Paulo - FATEC-SP
English, Portuguese, Hebrew
Github Skills (38)
ldap10
kubernetes10
ingress-controller10
apidoc10
testing10
ingress10
net10
command-line-interface10
user-authentication10
authentication10
kubectl10
networking10
plugin10
code-generation10
go10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
kubepug/kubepug
Jan 2020 - Nov 2021
Kubernetes PreUpGrade (Checker)
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:37 releases, 20 reviews, 76 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Ricardo primarily contributed to the core functionality of the `kubepug` project, which appears to be a tool for validating Kubernetes objects against a swagger.json specification. Their commits reveal the creation of the initial release, including essential components like the command-line interface, the swagger file downloader, and the core logic for comparing objects. They also worked on integrating features such as API walking, input methods, and file processing. The user also refactored the code to accept various inputs.
kubectl-pluginskuberneteskubernetes-pluginchecker
kubernetes/ingress-nginx
Mar 2017 - Jan 2023
Ingress NGINX Controller for Kubernetes
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:25 releases, 523 reviews, 170 commits in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Ricardo contributed to the core functionality of the ingress-nginx controller by making changes to the SSL configuration and other core features. They fixed bugs, implemented enhancements, and refactored code. They also played a role in setting up and maintaining the CI/CD pipeline.
nginxcontrollernginx-ingress-controlleringress-nginxingress-controller
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