Ralph Bankston
Customer Reliability Engineer at Astronomer
East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolRalph Bankston is a Customer Reliability Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience ensuring Kubernetes and cloud-native systems run reliably at scale for enterprise customers. He has a deep operational background spanning Kubernetes, Linux administration, Bash, JavaScript and Ruby, and has progressed from hands-on support roles to senior and staff reliability positions at companies like Heptio, VMware, Astronomer and Isovalent. Ralph specializes in bridging support and engineering—translating complex production incidents into repeatable reliability improvements and scalable customer outcomes. Based in East Lansing, he pairs technical depth with team leadership experience from earlier roles managing US support teams, and recently refreshed his full-stack skills through a Grand Circus program. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic troubleshooting and for turning recurring operational pain points into durable platform fixes.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Horticulture, Horticulture at Lansing Community CollegeGrand Circus Full Stack Developer Program
Stackoverflow
41reputation
6kreached
5answers
0questions
Github Skills (80)
ebpf10
bpf10
security10
contour10
cloud-platform10
k8s10
monitoring10
kubernetes-networking10
kubernetes10
cookbook10
observability10
envoyproxy10
kernel10
kubernetes-ingress10
ingress-controller10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
KyleVandenbossche/fridge-app
Jun 2023 - Jul 2023
Contributions:49 PRs, 30 pushes, 23 branches in 23 days
rbankston/cilium
Sep 2023 - Oct 2024
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
Contributions:25 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.