Tiger Kaovilai
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolTiger Kaovilai is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat with 11 years of engineering experience, currently focused on the OpenShift API for Data Protection (OADP) and upstream contributions to the widely used Velero project. He blends back-end Go development, Kubernetes and DevOps expertise with Linux operations and Ansible to deliver resilient data protection and migration tooling for OpenShift customers. Tiger has a proven track record of improving stability and security—patching vulnerabilities, hardening downloads with timeouts, and refining backup garbage-collection logic in Velero. Bilingual and internationally experienced, he has lived and worked across Thailand, New Zealand, and the United States, which informs his collaborative approach to open source. He also brings uncommon adjunct skills like front-end work and video editing, useful for demos and technical documentation. Not a U.S. citizen, he continues to grow in cloud-native engineering while actively contributing to the Kubernetes ecosystem.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Minor Computer Science, Minor Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at CS50High School High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at James Hargest CollegeHigh School Diploma English Program, High School Diploma English Program at Assumption College - โรงเรียนอัสสัมชัญ
English, Thai
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
kubernetes10
velero10
disaster-recovery10
backup10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
dependency-management9
devops9
error-handling9
refactoring8
refactor8
django-cors-headers6
eclipse-cdt6
openshift6
django-rest-framework6
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
vmware-tanzu/velero
Aug 2021 - Sep 2022
Backup and migrate Kubernetes applications and their persistent volumes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:771 reviews, 10 commits, 236 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Tiger primarily focused on enhancing the stability and maintainability of the Velero project. Their contributions include adding labels to expired backups to aid garbage collection and correcting a typo in the code. They also resolved vulnerabilities in the project's dependencies, improved the download request process with timeouts, and refactored code for better consistency. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the codebase by patching PVB/PVR failure status updates.
velerovolumeskubernetes-applicationspersistent-volumesdata-protection
kaovilai/installer
Mar 2023 - Oct 2024
Install an OpenShift 4.x cluster
Contributions:2 releases, 4 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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