Scott Solkhon
Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Solkhon is a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with 11 years' experience building and operating cloud-native platforms across companies like G-Research, Rivian/Volkswagen Group Technologies, and Sky. He combines hands-on DevOps and SRE practice with leadership experience as a Cloud Tech Lead, focusing on reliable automation, deployment configuration, and observability. An active open-source contributor to OpenStack's kolla-ansible, he has implemented features such as Swift S3 API support, Prometheus exporter integration, and HAProxy tuning—demonstrating a knack for improving large-scale infrastructure tooling. Based in Vancouver, he pairs strong systems engineering with a practical orientation toward production resilience and scalable CI/CD. Notably, his public GitHub and Stackalytics history reveal deep, pragmatic involvement in upstream cloud projects rather than just internal tooling.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BTEC National Diploma in IT Practitioners, BTEC National Diploma in IT Practitioners at South Essex CollegeBachelor of Science (Hons) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (Hons) Computer Science at Kingston UniversityGCSE, GCSE at Greensward Academy
Github Skills (10)
ansible-galaxy10
docker10
openstack10
dockers10
ansible10
haproxy9
prometheus9
swift8
hashicorp-vault7
networking7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/kolla-ansible
Jan 2019 - Sep 2022
Ansible deployment of the Kolla containers. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:36 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the automation and configuration aspects of the Kolla-Ansible project. Their work included adding support for the Swift S3 API, implementing Prometheus blackbox exporter, and fixing an issue related to Prometheus template generation. Furthermore, the user addressed connection limits in HAProxy and configured trusted CA certificate file functionality. These changes indicate a focus on improving infrastructure and deployment configurations.
containerskolladeploymentansibledocker
ssolkhon/prometheus_speedtest
Apr 2021 - Oct 2022
Instrument Speedtest.net tests from Prometheus
Contributions:6 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 6 months
prometheus-exporterspeedtestprometheusmetricsmonitoring
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