Vincent Sabatini
Platform Engineering Lead
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVincent Sabatini is a platform engineering leader with nine years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure and developer platforms. Based in Milwaukee, he progressed through multiple engineering roles at Kohl’s—rising from intern to Staff Platform Engineer—before becoming Platform Engineering Lead at Jack in the Box. He combines strong software development skills from a Michigan State Computer Science degree with proven DevOps expertise, including notable open-source contributions to the kubernetes-sigs/external-dns project where he enhanced BlueCat provider features and hardened API error handling. Vincent is equally comfortable shipping backend and deployment automation as he is communicating cross-functionally to drive platform adoption. His background in retail systems gives him practical experience balancing reliability, cost, and time-to-market in large-production environments. Outside work he channels the same team-focused drive into sports, reflecting a collaborative, performance-oriented leadership style.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.3, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.3 at Michigan State University
Spanish
Github Skills (11)
kubernetes10
go10
dns10
kubernetes-pods10
devops9
route534
aws4
terraformer3
terraform3
dockers3
docker3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/external-dns
Aug 2020 - Apr 2022
Configure external DNS servers (AWS Route53, Google CloudDNS and others) for Kubernetes Ingresses and Services
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:29 reviews, 18 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Vincent primarily contributed to the Bluecat provider, adding features for TLS configuration, setting TTL for records, and deploying DNS changes. They implemented functionality for deploying DNS changes, including "full deploy" capabilities. They also refactored the Bluecat client code into a separate package and improved API error handling.
gcproute53dnsexternal-dnsk8s-sig-network
KohlsTechnology/prometheus_bigquery_remote_storage_adapter
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Prometheus remote storage adapter for Google's BigQuery
Contributions:199 reviews, 28 commits, 197 PRs in 1 year 9 months
bigqueryadapterprometheusgoogle-cloudstorage
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