Travis Rhoden
Engineering Analyst at Google
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolTravis Rhoden is an experienced engineering analyst and software engineer with 14 years building Linux-first, cloud-native and storage systems from HPC to consumer-facing products. He has deep open-source credentials—contributing core CSI storage functionality for vSphere, improvements to Kubernetes image-builder, and long-running work on REX-Ray and ceph-deploy—bringing practical storage drivers, CI/CD, and deployment automation to production. At VMware and Dell he focused on upstream Kubernetes, container storage interfaces, and image build pipelines; more recently he worked on Google Assistant for Android Auto and now applies Data & AI to global network operations at Google. Travis blends low-level systems experience (block devices, mount logic, embedded C early in his career) with modern Go-based cloud-native engineering. He’s based in Boulder and is known for making complex storage integrations reliable and easier to operate across diverse infrastructures. An uncommon strength is his ability to move between highly technical device-level work and user-facing monitoring and automation without losing sight of maintainability.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaHigh School Regular/General High School/Secondary Diploma Program, High School Regular/General High School/Secondary Diploma Program at Joseph City High School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (46)
kubernetes10
vsphere10
docker10
python10
mount10
linux10
storage10
bash10
vmware10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
packer10
go10
driver10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/image-builder
Sep 2019 - Jun 2022
Tools for building Kubernetes disk images
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:12 releases, 157 reviews, 140 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Travis's contributions primarily focus on automating the build, deployment, and management of Kubernetes disk images. They implemented improvements to the OVA build process, including setting the VMX version, correcting XML syntax, and adding metadata for image-builder version and container versions. The user also introduced CI/CD enhancements with scripts for managing dependencies, running tests, and simplifying build processes. A significant portion of their work involves streamlining the image build process to improve usability and enterprise environment compatibility.
kubernetes-providerkubernetesproviderk8s-sig-cluster-lifecycle
ceph/ceph-deploy
May 2013 - Sep 2015
Deploy Ceph with minimal infrastructure, using just SSH access
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:275 commits, 98 PRs, 62 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Travis primarily contributed to the `ceph/ceph-deploy` repository by implementing bug fixes and improving the deployment process. They addressed issues in keyring path output, EPEL installation, and `gatherkeys` failures. Furthermore, the user updated documentation and added the necessary code for installing Ceph components like RGW, along with corresponding systemd service configurations. The user also refactored parts of the codebase for improved modularity and made changes to enhance system configuration.
sshinfrastructureceph
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