Noah Kantrowitz
Principal Cluster Monkey at Geomagical Labs
San Francisco, California, United States
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Noah Kantrowitz is a Principal Cluster Monkey based in San Francisco with 16 years building and operating large-scale infrastructure and cloud-native platforms. He specializes in Kubernetes performance and GitOps-driven platform tooling, currently making Kubernetes go fast for IKEA and previously leading global SRE efforts including a full Kubernetes migration and cloud provider swap. Noah is a pragmatic back-end and DevOps engineer with deep roots in the Chef ecosystem—contributing to core projects like chef, ohai, omnibus, test-kitchen and Berkshelf—and has experience improving packaging, CI/CD and secure deployment workflows. He also contributes to language SDKs and distributed systems tooling, from a Sentry Ruby SDK to KEDA autoscaling improvements, showing a blend of application-level and infra-level impact. Known for refactors that reduce memory/bug surface area (string freezing, plugin config) and practical automation (EC2 security/key automation, build improvements), he favors maintainability and reliability at scale. A Rensselaer CS alumnus, he pairs hands-on engineering with community leadership in open source.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (93)
ec10
test-kitchen10
postgresql10
package-management10
python10
error-handler10
testing10
rspec10
server-configuration10
ruby10
chef-client10
automation10
bundler10
build-automation10
rake10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
poise/supervisor
May 2012 - Jul 2015
Development repository for Opscode Cookbook supervisor
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:42 commits, 11 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Noah's contributions primarily focus on maintaining and updating the project's configuration and metadata, specifically related to releasing and versioning the `supervisor` cookbook. The commits involve bumping the version number, addressing packaging issues, and modifying templates. They are also focused on the development of scripts and packages which includes setting attribute defaults.
cookbookpythonsupervisorlogin-systeminit
poise/python
Jul 2013 - Aug 2015
THIS COOKBOOK IS DEPRECATED – Chef cookbook to install Python and related tools
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:37 commits, 40 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Noah primarily contributed to the automation and configuration aspects of the Python project. They updated the `get-pip.py` script, modified recipes related to pip and virtualenv installation, and added support for Fedora, indicating a focus on improving the project's build and deployment processes. The changes included setting the virtualenv version and addressing version upgrades, and also involved managing dependencies. These modifications suggest a strong interest in infrastructure and package management.
python
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