Shane O'donnell
VP Of Engineering at solo.io
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShane O'donnell is a VP of Engineering with 11 years of hands-on experience building and leading teams that deliver cloud-native, production-grade software at global scale. He specializes in service mesh and application networking technologies like Kubernetes, Istio, and Envoy, and has moved from individual contributor to director and now executive roles at Solo.io. Known for servant leadership, he focuses on growing talent and enabling teams to ship reliable systems while still contributing to core engineering work such as API gateway and Helm/CI improvements. An active open-source contributor, Shane has improved Gloo-based gateways and added Istio integrations and cert rotation features, blending backend, DevOps, and UX fixes. He’s also a budding conference speaker with talks at KubeCon’s Application Networking Day, All Things Open, and IEEE ProComm, bringing technical depth and public-facing advocacy to his leadership. Based in Boston, he combines practical engineering chops with a consistent track record of coaching teams to succeed in complex distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc Business Information Systems, Bsc Business Information Systems at University College CorkRochestown College
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Github Skills (24)
env10
kubernetes10
envoyproxy10
go10
helm10
api-gateway10
kubernetes-pods10
istio10
convoy10
cicd9
microservices-application9
api-management9
microservices9
docker8
yaml8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kgateway-dev/kgateway
May 2020 - Jan 2021
The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 releases, 129 reviews, 53 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Shane primarily focused on improving the Gloo API Gateway and AI Gateway. Their contributions involved fixing bugs, implementing new features like buffer filter and Istio integrations, and enhancing existing functionality. They demonstrated DevOps skills by working on the Helm charts and continuous integration by enabling features like cert rotation, and ensuring the proper setup and function of the project's components. They also worked to improve the user experience, such as by fixing the documentation.
api-gatewayfeature-richgrpcserverlesslegacy-apps
codeforboston/Snope_API
Nov 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:46 commits, 1 PR, 25 pushes in 1 month
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