Sam Stoelinga is a Cloud Architect with 13 years of hands-on experience building and operating Kubernetes-first infrastructure, currently helping customers get the most from Google Cloud with expertise in K8s, Istio, CI/CD and production security. He is the creator of KubeAI and a notable open-source contributor to projects like GoogleContainerTools/kaniko, where he improved integration tests and CI/CD for container builds in Kubernetes. Sam runs an open-source consulting practice and has launched several SaaS projects (including Lighthouse-as-a-Service and an image background remover), blending product ownership with deep engineering. Comfortable moving between product management, customer-facing architecture, and low-level systems work, he has practical experience delivering OpenStack and bare-metal solutions as well as migrating security policies on GKE. Based in Castro Valley, CA, he pairs pragmatic, get-things-done engineering with a curious streak—he studied software engineering in both the Netherlands and China and still contributes code that helps LLMs run in production.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Software Engineering (Informatica), Bachelor, Software Engineering (Informatica) at Hague University of Applied Sciences
Chinese Language Course, Chinese Language Course at Beihang University
Master's degree (Chinese-taught), Software Engineering, Master's degree (Chinese-taught), Software Engineering at Tsinghua University
Contributions:20 commits, 23 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Sam's primary contributions involve improving the integration tests and CI/CD pipeline for the `kaniko` project. They fixed integration test failures related to Go 1.13 and docker compatibility issues. Furthermore, the user updated the integration tests to run in Travis CI, utilizing a local docker registry and implementing features like GCS bucket uploads and K8s integration tests, demonstrating expertise in containerization and testing infrastructure.
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