Spencer Hance
Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSpencer Hance is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in backend systems and infrastructure, currently co-leading L7 load balancing (Ingress/Gateway/Multicluster) for Kubernetes and GKE at Google. He combines deep systems and networking expertise with hands-on DevOps and test infrastructure work—contributing notable refactors and NEG/SSL support to the widely used kubernetes/ingress-gce controller. Prior roles span cloud and high-performance computing research (AMD, NUCAR) and large-scale education platforms (edX), reflecting a blend of production shipping and research rigor. Based in San Francisco, he often operates at the intersection of architecture and implementation, mentoring teams while still rolling up his sleeves to improve maintainability and e2e testing. An early entrepreneur who ran a repair business in high school, he brings practical product sensibilities and user-focused reliability to complex distributed systems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering at Northeastern UniversityRidgefield High School
German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
gcp10
ingress-controller10
kubernetes10
google-cloud-platform10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
testing10
cicd9
automations8
automation8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/ingress-gce
Mar 2019 - Dec 2022
Ingress controller for Google Cloud
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:52 reviews, 154 commits, 154 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Spencer primarily focused on modifying and refactoring code related to the Google Cloud Ingress controller, specifically for the Google Cloud infrastructure. Their contributions included implementing and testing features related to Network Endpoint Groups (NEGs), handling SSL certificate configurations, and refactoring the codebase for better maintainability using deployments and refactoring tests. Furthermore, they worked on updating the codebase to include the necessary support for the frontend config and session affinity using HTTPS. They also updated the e2e test infrastructure.
loadbalancergcpcontrollergoogleingress-controller
spencerhance/spencerhance.github.io
Sep 2017 - May 2021
My personal website
Contributions:4 PRs, 36 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 8 months
reactnextjs
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