Martin
From Slovakia (UTC+2)
Martin – Kubernetes, Golang, Terraform
Martin is a strong senior backend engineer with deep expertise in Go and Kubernetes platform engineering. He has architected and delivered production-grade Kubernetes controllers, CRDs, and authentication layers, including bare metal provisioning and multi-cluster management. His experience spans internal developer platforms, with a clear product mindset and strong technical communication. Temporal is reading knowledge only, not hands-on.
16 years of commercial experience
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Senior Member of Technical Staff
Kubernetes distribution with multi-cluster management and an application catalog.
- Integrated the NVIDIA GPU Operator and Knative to enable scalable AI workloads on NKP.
- Implemented multi-tenancy capabilities within the authentication stack.
- Integrated Harbor as the container image registry for the NKP platform.
- Developed a custom forward proxy to support OCI registry access in air-gapped environments.
- Developed and maintained open-source and private Kubernetes controllers.
Staff Software Engineer
A set of custom controllers and CRDs that exposed authentication and authorization features to platform administrators.
- Designed and developed single sign-on authentication and authorization components.
- Built custom Kubernetes controllers, CRDs, and webhooks to extend platform capabilities.
- Automated SSO configuration and authorization across multiple Kubernetes clusters managed through a single control plane.
- Integrated container scanning to assess security posture, software licensing, and generate SBOMs.
- Provisioned infrastructure and configured host machines using Ansible and Terraform, with Cluster API for Kubernetes cluster provisioning.
- Built Docker-based CI and production workflows using GitHub Actions and TeamCity.
- Created custom Helm charts for deploying services on Kubernetes.
- Implemented internal open-source license scanning to support legal and release compliance.
Senior Software Engineer
A datacenter-focused system for running containerized applications.
- Contributed to the DC/OS Security Team, securely integrating distributed system components.
- Configured TLS/SSL and secured inter-service communication through encryption and proper certificate management.
- Developed and maintained an internal Certificate Authority service for issuing component certificates and managing the PKI.
- Enhanced the internal Secrets service for securely storing and exposing sensitive data to authorized components.
- Maintained HashiCorp Vault and contributed to secure secrets-management practices.
- Maintained and enhanced the internal IAM service, integrating it with the distributed CockroachDB database.
- Developed across system components using Python, Java, and Golang.
Senior Distributed Systems Engineer
Internal container platform based on Mesos and Aurora scheduler.
- Developed and supported cloud-based solutions using AWS CloudFormation, SQS, S3, EC2, and Lambda.
- Worked with Mesos and Aurora in distributed, cloud-native environments.
- Containerized applications and development workflows using Docker.
- Developed software using Ruby, Python, Golang, and Java.
- Worked with Redis, Puppet, Thrift, and ZooKeeper across infrastructure and distributed systems.
- Served as Scrum Master, facilitating agile ceremonies and supporting team delivery.
Senior Software Engineer
A user-facing UI that customers use for managing and deploying their Drupal CMS sites.
- Developed and maintained web applications using Drupal, PHP, and JavaScript.
- Built ETL workflows and integrated payment-processing solutions.
- Contributed to e-commerce systems and related business processes.
- Integrated third-party APIs, including Zuora, Salesforce, and Zendesk.
- Maintained and enhanced Ruby-based applications.