Rodrigo Chacon is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience building cloud-native, production-grade systems from São Paulo. A polyglot who focuses on Python and Go, he blends backend development with DevOps and continuous delivery expertise, having held senior and principal engineering roles across startups and large e-commerce teams. Rodrigo contributes to notable open-source projects such as the Kubernetes ingress controller Contour (Envoy integrations) and httpbin, demonstrating practical knowledge of Kubernetes, Envoy, CORS, and service readiness. As founder of kumbuca and former consultant, he pairs hands-on coding with product-minded leadership, shipping reliable infrastructure and tooling. Colleagues will notice his attention to internal service health and configuration details—often improving observability and readiness behaviors that quietly raise system robustness.
Contour is a Kubernetes ingress controller using Envoy proxy.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:9 commits, 7 PRs, 17 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Rodrigo Chacon's contributions primarily revolve around enhancements to the Contour ingress controller, focusing on improving its internal functionality. They added a secondary health check endpoint, modified Envoy configuration for readiness and stats, and streamlined example setups. Further, they updated internal Envoy configurations to allow access to the /ready endpoint, and merged a branch. Their work suggests an understanding of Kubernetes and Envoy, essential for the ingress controller's operation.
HTTP Request & Response Service, written in Python + Flask.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:6 commits in 21 days
Contributions summary:Rodrigo primarily focused on enhancing the HTTPbin service by implementing CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) support. They added headers for preflight requests and all requests, enabling proper handling of cross-origin requests. Furthermore, the user refined the CORS implementation by correctly setting the `Origin` header in responses when available, aligning with modern web standards. The changes involved modifying the core application logic and test files in Python.
flaskpythonhttp-servertestingapi
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