Solly Ross
Staff Software Engineer at Fastly
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolSolly Ross is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building and hardening cloud-native systems, currently based in Mountain View and working at Fastly. He is a Kubernetes specialist who has contributed core components across the ecosystem—from controller-runtime and kubebuilder to the metrics and API repos—demonstrating deep expertise in controllers, API validation, and client tooling. His background spans production-facing engineering and DevOps work at Google and Red Hat, including notable contributions to OpenShift, Heapster, and the metrics-server that improved autoscaling and observability. Solly is an open-source enthusiast and language fanatic who routinely refactors for maintainability, migrates complex projects to modern Go tooling, and optimizes performance and testability. Beyond code, he has a knack for bridging API design with practical operator needs—having implemented caches, indexing, and conversion webhooks used by other maintainers.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
(Partial) Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics and Computer Science, Dean's List, (Partial) Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics and Computer Science, Dean's List at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (62)
go-modules10
libvirt10
caching10
kubernetes10
docker10
controller-manager10
controller10
python10
apidoc10
horizontal-scaling10
testing10
user-authentication10
authentication10
python-multiprocessing10
proxy10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools
Dec 2018 - Aug 2021
Tools to use with the controller-runtime libraries
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 25 reviews, 75 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Solly focused on refactoring and improving the object scaffolding logic within the `controller-tools` repository. They extracted KubeBuilder's object scaffolding logic into a separate command, enhancing the reusability of this non-opinionated task for various Kubernetes-related projects. Furthermore, they cleaned up vendor dependencies, removing dependencies on CR (Custom Resource).
runtimecontrollerk8s-sig-api-machinerycontroller-runtime
kubernetes-sigs/prometheus-adapter
May 2017 - Jan 2019
An implementation of the custom.metrics.k8s.io API using Prometheus
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 releases, 107 commits, 53 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Solly contributed to instrumenting Prometheus query times by endpoint, enhancing the observability of the Prometheus adapter. They also refactored the codebase by updating dependencies to the correct locations. Furthermore, the user added gofmt-related targets to the Makefile and formatted the codebase to ensure code style consistency. The user also introduced features to improve build and deployment, like automatically publishing new images, and enabling advanced configuration via a config file.
apicustom-metricsk8s-sig-instrumentationk8skubernetes
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