Samuel Gartner
Software Engineer at NetApp
Wichita, Kansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Gartner is a software engineer based in Wichita, Kansas with two years of professional experience building backend and DevOps solutions. He has worked at NetApp and now SUSE, contributing to production-grade systems and quality assurance workflows. On open source, he contributed to the popular rancher/rancher container management platform, improving YAML/JSON configuration handling, snapshot retention, and tests—demonstrating attention to reliability and infrastructure ergonomics. Comfortable across backend services and DevOps, he pairs practical engineering with test-driven improvements that reduce operational friction. A Wichita State Computer Science graduate, he brings a pragmatic, systems-oriented mindset and a track record of shipping small but impactful changes in large codebases.
2 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Wichita State University
Github Skills (12)
kubernetes10
docker10
go10
dockers10
kubernetes-pods10
testing10
yaml9
container9
rancher9
orchestration9
orchestra9
cicd8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rancher/rancher
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
Complete container management platform
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:132 reviews, 29 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Samuel contributed to the `rancher/rancher` repository by modifying configuration loading, specifically integrating `sigs.k8s.io/yaml` for enhanced YAML and JSON object handling. They also worked on snapshot retention features, modifying tests and configurations. Furthermore, the user was involved in template updates, including updates to go.mod and code cleanups, and added new tests.
containersorchestrationdockerrancherkubernetes
susesgartner/shepherd
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
Development Fork
Contributions:248 pushes, 36 branches in 1 year 2 months
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