William Hegedus
Senior Engineering Manager - SRE at Akamai Technologies
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Hegedus is a Senior Engineering Manager specializing in Site Reliability and observability with over a decade of experience running globally distributed cloud infrastructure. He leads teams at Akamai (formerly Linode) building scalable observability platforms based on Prometheus and OpenTelemetry that handle billions of time series and log streams, while also coaching engineering teams on instrumentation and reliability best practices. Hands-on with Kubernetes, virtualization, Go, and Python, he drives automation, CI/CD, and SLO-focused operations to reduce toil and improve system resilience. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved core behavior of the widely used external-dns project—fixing duplicate-record bugs and enhancing IP handling—demonstrating attention to both platform scale and real-world interoperability. Based in Virginia, he combines people leadership with deep technical ownership across monitoring pipelines and global cloud hosting operations.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Liberty University Online AcademyInterdisciplinary Studies Computer Science and Psychology, Interdisciplinary Studies Computer Science and Psychology at Liberty UniversityTowson High
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
kubernetes10
go10
dns10
kubernetes-pods10
linode9
cloud-infrastructure8
testing8
aws7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/external-dns
Apr 2022 - Jun 2022
Configure external DNS servers (AWS Route53, Google CloudDNS and others) for Kubernetes Ingresses and Services
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 3 commits, 4 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:William focused on improving the core functionality of the external-dns project. They implemented features related to IP address handling and comparison logic within the endpoint processing, specifically preferring IP addresses over FQDNs. They also made a critical fix for the Linode provider to prevent the creation of duplicate records. Additionally, the user added debug logging and added a test to prevent the creation of existing records.
gcproute53dnsexternal-dnsk8s-sig-network
wbh1/todo
Sep 2016 - May 2022
node.js todo list web app
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
todolistexpressjsnode-jsjavascriptexpress
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