Ricky Sadowski
Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at ICR, Inc.
Nova, Transdanubia, United States
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Top SchoolRicky Sadowski is a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with over 15 years of systems experience and eight years focused on cloud-native engineering, reliability, and automation. He has designed, built, and operated large-scale distributed systems across aerospace, defense, and commercial cloud environments, including hands-on roles at AWS and ICR. Ricky led full-stack development and platform efforts—single-source through MVP for mission-critical web applications—and champions excellent developer experience across CNCF tooling like Kubernetes and Vault. An active contributor to the Kubernetes test-infra project, he has automated and hardened testing pipelines by migrating jobs, resolving race conditions, and building cluster-transition tracking tools. His background in Air Force satellite systems and cryptographic handling gives him uncommon operational rigor and a practical, security-minded approach to infrastructure.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Western Governors University
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Github Skills (12)
kubernetes10
automation10
automations10
docker10
ci-cd-pipeline10
dockers10
kubernetes-pods10
test-automation10
githubaction-workflow9
github-ci9
bash9
go8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/test-infra
May 2023 - Nov 2025
Test infrastructure for the Kubernetes project.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:63 reviews, 160 PRs, 348 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Ricky primarily focused on updating and maintaining the test infrastructure for the Kubernetes project. Their contributions included migrating jobs to community clusters, adjusting resource capacity, and fixing race conditions within the testing framework. They also implemented a tool for tracking cluster transitions and updated job configurations to reflect changes in the testing environment. This work indicates a strong focus on automating and streamlining the Kubernetes testing pipelines.
kubernetesk8s-sig-testing
rjsadow/test-infra
Jul 2023 - Apr 2024
Test infrastructure for the Kubernetes project.
Contributions:113 pushes, 99 branches in 8 months
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