Saylor Berman
Senior Software Engineer - NGINX at F5
Denver Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolSaylor Berman is a Senior Software Engineer at F5 Networks with 10 years of experience building cloud-native networking solutions focused on Layer 7 routing, traffic management, and security. He combines deep systems-level expertise in Go, Python, Java, and C++ with hands-on work in Kubernetes, NGINX, and CI/CD to deliver high-performance, reliable microservice ingress and orchestration tooling. At F5 he has driven technical direction, mentored teams, and significantly improved projects like the k8s-bigip-ctlr—refactoring configuration models, adding health-monitoring and SSL-from-secrets features, and optimizing Docker builds. Based in Denver, he pairs rigorous engineering discipline with a practical drive to see the impact of his work on customers and operators.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Mathematics at Colorado State University
Github Skills (13)
ingress10
kubernetes10
go10
ssl10
tls1210
openshift10
tls1310
kubernetes-pods10
dockers9
cicd9
docker9
automated-tests8
python8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
F5Networks/k8s-bigip-ctlr
Dec 2016 - Dec 2018
Repository for F5 Container Ingress Services for Kubernetes & OpenShift.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:241 commits, 183 PRs, 75 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Saylor significantly contributed to the core functionality of the Kubernetes BIG-IP Controller by addressing key issues and adding essential features. They refactored the configuration model, allowing for shared virtual servers across multiple services. Furthermore, the user implemented improvements such as the management of Ingress health monitors, the ability to specify IP addresses and monitor types, and enabling SSL certificates from Kubernetes Secrets. In addition, they improved the controller build process by optimizing Docker images and improving build times.
f5-ccorchestrationingress-controllertlsdocker
sjberman/nginx-gateway-fabric
Apr 2023 - Apr 2025
NGINX Kubernetes Gateway provides an implementation for the Gateway API using NGINX as the data plane.
Contributions:818 pushes, 338 branches, 20 tags in 1 year 11 months
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