Scott Weiss
Architect, Principal Software Engineer at solo.io
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolScott Weiss is an architect and principal software engineer with 12 years building cloud-native infrastructure, currently designing core architecture, product APIs, and service mesh automation at solo.io. A longtime open-source contributor and Golang enthusiast, he’s driven unikernel and microVM work (notably on solo-io/unik) and pragmatic DevOps improvements across API gateway and Envoy integrations. Comfortable across Kubernetes, Mesos, Docker, Cloud Foundry, and AWS, he blends deep systems engineering with production-focused tooling and release automation. He’s published practical unikernel advocacy and brings a knack for refactoring legacy compiler/tooling chains into modern container-driven build flows. Based in Greater Boston, he pairs an MSc in Computer Engineering with hands-on backend and infra experience, and even pursues hobby game development outside work. Colleagues rely on him to bridge low-level runtime concerns with developer-friendly deployment patterns.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Labor and Industrial Relations, Bachelor's degree Labor and Industrial Relations at Cornell UniversityMaster of Science (MSc) Computer Engineering, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Engineering at Boston University
English, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (26)
kubernetes10
docker10
envoyproxy10
dockers10
cicd10
go10
helm10
api-gateway10
kubernetes-pods10
scripting9
java9
devops9
aws9
javas9
shell9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
kgateway-dev/kgateway
Jan 2018 - May 2020
The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:19 releases, 79 reviews, 1442 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily worked on improving the functionality and reliability of the API Gateway and AI Gateway. Their contributions included implementing release scripts, creating a Helm chart for installing Gloo, and integrating the Envoy gzip compression filter. They also addressed various issues, including fixing persistent flag problems and addressing issues with the underlying Istio configurations.
api-gatewayfeature-richgrpcserverlesslegacy-apps
solo-io/unik
May 2016 - Apr 2018
The Unikernel & MicroVM Compilation and Deployment Platform
Role in this project:Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 37 commits, 38 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Scott's contributions primarily focused on refactoring and extending the OSv compiler within the unik project. They added support for Java-based OSv applications, including an AWS-specific bootstrapper and associated build processes. The user also made improvements to build scripts, configuration, and infrastructure by integrating with the Docker ecosystem for dependency management. They addressed issues with time sleeps within the rump compiler.
compilationdeploymentdeployment-platformlibvirtunikernel
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