Sam Stoelinga
Cloud Architect at Google
Castro Valley, California, United States
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Top SchoolSam Stoelinga is a Cloud Architect with 13 years of hands-on experience building and operating Kubernetes-first infrastructure, currently helping customers get the most from Google Cloud with expertise in K8s, Istio, CI/CD and production security. He is the creator of KubeAI and a notable open-source contributor to projects like GoogleContainerTools/kaniko, where he improved integration tests and CI/CD for container builds in Kubernetes. Sam runs an open-source consulting practice and has launched several SaaS projects (including Lighthouse-as-a-Service and an image background remover), blending product ownership with deep engineering. Comfortable moving between product management, customer-facing architecture, and low-level systems work, he has practical experience delivering OpenStack and bare-metal solutions as well as migrating security policies on GKE. Based in Castro Valley, CA, he pairs pragmatic, get-things-done engineering with a curious streak—he studied software engineering in both the Netherlands and China and still contributes code that helps LLMs run in production.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Software Engineering (Informatica), Bachelor, Software Engineering (Informatica) at Hague University of Applied SciencesChinese Language Course, Chinese Language Course at Beihang UniversityMaster's degree (Chinese-taught), Software Engineering, Master's degree (Chinese-taught), Software Engineering at Tsinghua University
Dutch, English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
testing10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
automations10
scripting9
unit-testing9
python9
gcp9
phantomjs9
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleContainerTools/kaniko
Jan 2020 - Mar 2020
Build Container Images In Kubernetes
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:20 commits, 23 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Sam's primary contributions involve improving the integration tests and CI/CD pipeline for the `kaniko` project. They fixed integration test failures related to Go 1.13 and docker compatibility issues. Furthermore, the user updated the integration tests to run in Travis CI, utilizing a local docker registry and implementing features like GCS bucket uploads and K8s integration tests, demonstrating expertise in containerization and testing infrastructure.
containersdockerdeveloper-toolscontainer-imageskubernetes
samos123/axlearn
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 548 pushes, 31 branches in 1 year
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