Ricardo Weir
Staff Software Engineer at vCluster
Chandler, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRicardo Weir is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native, full-stack systems and a particular strength in back-end and DevOps engineering. Based in Chandler, AZ, he has driven production improvements at Rancher Labs—contributing to core Kubernetes/EKS integrations, CLI error handling, and UI UX tweaks for a widely used container management platform—and now shapes infrastructure at vCluster. He combines academic work in machine learning research and hands-on startup experience from his senior project, reflecting a practical curiosity for new technologies. Experienced as an instructor and intern across ASU, DriveTime, and Dell, he brings both mentorship and product-focused delivery to engineering teams. Notably, his open-source contributions improved EKS cluster reliability and Prometheus service-account auth in Rancher, showing an eye for operational robustness as well as developer experience.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Arizona State UniversityIra A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University
Github Skills (27)
amazon-eks10
kubernetes10
javascript10
css10
command-line-interface10
ui-design10
iks10
uid10
go10
aws10
front-end-development10
helm10
ember10
kubernetes-pods10
command-line10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
rancher/cli
Jan 2019 - Jun 2021
Rancher CLI
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 15 reviews, 23 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ricardo primarily focused on improving the Rancher CLI's error handling and user experience. Their contributions include updating the `pkg/errors` library for more informative error messages with stack traces. They also implemented changes to display helpful messages when project or cluster contexts are unavailable, and added a mechanism to reset existing answers in the CLI. Furthermore, the user added flags for timeout, waiting, and showing notes for the application's installation process.
rancher-cli
rancher/rancher
Jan 2019 - Jan 2023
Complete container management platform
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:748 reviews, 564 commits, 534 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Ricardo primarily contributed to enhancing the Kubernetes-based container management platform, Rancher. Their work focused on improving the functionality of the EKS cluster, specifically involving the integration and management of Kubernetes services and their updates. Contributions included updating and resolving template issues with the kontainer-engine that are related to EKS cluster creation failures. They also improved the system's usability by adding validation, by providing support to service account authentication for Prometheus, and they worked on incorporating more features in order to ensure the quality of Rancher.
container-managementrancherdockerkubernetesorchestration
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