Taylor Thomas
Staff Software Engineer at Akuity - The GitOps Platform for Kubernetes
Provo, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTaylor Thomas is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable, maintainable distributed systems and developer tooling, currently focusing on GitOps for Kubernetes. He is a core contributor to Helm and has driven reliability improvements around deployment waits and gRPC connection handling, reflecting deep Kubernetes expertise. At Microsoft he created maintenance and remediation automation and cofounded projects like Krustlet and WAGI, and later helped mature wasmCloud to CNCF incubation while leading engineering and customer engagements. Taylor blends hands-on backend and DevOps work—refactoring Rust projects into multi-crate architectures and integrating WebAssembly providers—with leadership in open-source governance and standards efforts. Based in Provo, Utah, he has a track record of shipping production-grade schedulers, custom Kubernetes extensions, and CI/CD systems for large enterprises. Colleagues know him as a pragmatic systems thinker who pairs low-level code changes with long-term platform reliability.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (BS) Information Technology at Brigham Young University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (15)
kubelet10
kubernetes10
github-ci10
go10
rust10
githubaction-workflow10
helm10
devops10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
wasm-pack9
rust-wasm9
wasi9
yaml8
grpc8
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
krustlet/krustlet
Feb 2020 - Feb 2022
Kubernetes Rust Kubelet
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 releases, 310 reviews, 345 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Taylor's contributions primarily revolved around fixing Clippy issues and setting up an Action pipeline. They also refactored the Krustlet project into multiple crates, which included the addition of the base test files and dylibs for future refactoring. Furthermore, the user ported and integrated the wascc code from a CRI experiment, demonstrating an understanding of the project's architecture and the integration of external components. This integration involved adapting the Kubelet to handle multiple provider types and refactoring various parts of the project.
wasmrustwascckubeletkubernetes
helm/helm
Jan 2017 - Apr 2021
The Kubernetes Package Manager
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 1 review, 296 commits in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Taylor primarily contributed to the Helm package manager's codebase, specifically by addressing issues with the Tiller component, focusing on the `--wait` functionality for deployments, and enhancing the logging system. Their work involved modifying core files related to Kubernetes interactions, such as `wait.go`, and the overall storage of releases, impacting installation, upgrade, and rollback processes. Furthermore, the user improved the reliability of the system by addressing gRPC connection management.
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