Ryler Hockenbury
Software Development Director at Mastercard Data & Services
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolRyler Hockenbury is a Software Development Director with 12 years of experience helping organizations harness data, cloud, and people to drive innovation, growth, and productivity. Based in Virginia and currently leading engineering at Mastercard Data & Services, he blends technical vision with hands-on DevOps and cloud expertise to deliver transformative, production-ready systems. He has built and scaled Agile teams across startups and large corporations, specializing in serverless, cloud-native architectures, and CI/CD-driven operations. An active open-source contributor, Ryler has practical contributions to the kubespray project—tuning Ansible-based Kubernetes deployments for better Linux node compatibility and Azure integration. Trained as an aerospace engineer and holding an MS in computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon, he brings a systems-thinking mindset and disciplined engineering rigor to software delivery. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic technical strategy that balances immediate delivery needs with long-term platform health.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Aerospace Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Aerospace Engineering at Penn State UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.), Computer Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
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ansible
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Github Skills (23)
kubernetes10
cloud-infrastructure10
infrastructure10
kubernetes-pods10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
dockers9
docker9
yaml9
azure8
microsoft-azure8
high-availability7
jenkins6
jenkins-pipeline6
nodejs6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/kubespray
Nov 2018 - Jan 2021
Deploy a Production Ready Kubernetes Cluster
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:13 commits, 14 PRs, 70 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ryler primarily focused on configuring and adapting the Kubernetes cluster deployment using Ansible. Their contributions involved applying node selectors and other configurations to various deployments like CoreDNS, kube-proxy, and others, ensuring compatibility and optimal performance on Linux nodes. They also introduced a namespace for netchecker and updated the Azure cloud config. Furthermore, they made changes to the deployment of the metrics server resizer addon.
kubernetes-clusteransiblekuberneteshigh-availabilitybare-metal
rhockenbury/cloudbase-init-1
Jan 2020 - Oct 2022
Cross-platform instance initialization
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
cross-platform
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