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Kyle Squizzato - Senior Software Engineer

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Experience

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Senior Software Engineer (2024 - Present)

  • Maintained existing features and shipped new capabilities for Compatibility Matrix (ephemeral Kubernetes clusters for testing), SecureBuild (Zero CVE images) and the Enterprise Portal (customer facing portal).
  • Developed CMX network policy reporting that surfaces source pod details (pod identity and command/PID running in pod) via eBPF/XDP and kprobes.
  • Refactored CMX networking airgap using XDP hooks to enforce blocking at the NIC with XDP_DROP while retaining network policy reporting.
  • Implemented a VM snapshot feature for CMX using Firecracker and OverlayFS.
  • Built SecureBuild’s in-product package and image testing pipeline, validating artifacts before they’re added to the Zero CVE catalog based on melange’s existing package testing pipeline pattern.
  • Contributed to LLM-assisted SecureBuild catalog image generation and subagent workflows by authoring Claude rules and skills to enhance generation accuracy.
  • Orchestrated end-to-end Claude workflows using Conductor to speed up and streamline development.
  • Rebuilt the e2e test suite in Go with Dagger, replacing the prior Bash-based implementation reducing flakiness and increasing test coverage.
  • Improved the CMX history usage backend and frontend to deliver clearer cost-consumption reporting for customers.

Mirantis

Senior Software Engineer (2022 - 2024), Software Engineer (2019 - 2022)

  • Spearheaded design and development on two Kubernetes operators (RethinkDB and MSR) plus a shared operator library built for easing installation and lifecycle management for MSR customers.
  • Maintained MSR product integration in Mirantis Launchpad (internal Ansible-like solution).
  • Built an integration test library using Gruntwork Terratest, Mirantis Launchpad, and Terraform.
  • Performed competitive feature gap analysis of rival products with product and engineering.
  • Helped design and develop the Mirantis Migration Tool, including components for concurrent blob storage copying, database transformations, and product deployment.
  • Designed and implemented Running Image Enforcement, enabling RBAC-style rules to prevent Docker image pulls from any client.

Docker

Senior Software Maintenance Engineer (2019), Software Maintenance Engineer (2018 - 2019), Support Engineer (2017 - 2018)

  • Founding member of the Support Engineering Group (SEG) at Docker: a sustaining development team.
  • Debugged customer environments using Docker Swarm and Kubernetes orchestrators.
  • Participated in daily engineering standups and collaborated with engineering to debug and prioritize customer issues for upcoming software releases.
  • Routinely performed code-level deep-dives as part of debugging processes.
  • Wrote patches for various Docker products and contributed new code upstream to open source offerings.

Red Hat

Software Maintenance Engineer – Ceph (2015 - 2017), Senior Technical Support Engineer – Ceph (2014 - 2015), Technical Support Engineer – Filesystems (2013 - 2015), Technical Support Engineer – Storage (2012 - 2013), Associate Technical Support Engineer (2011 - 2012)

  • Dedicated on-site Ceph engineer at a strategic Enterprise OpenStack Cloud partner.
  • Routinely reviewed upstream bug trackers and codebases as well as downstream code.
  • Backported upstream commits into downstream Red Hat products.
  • Created tooling to streamline vmcore analysis for support engineers.
  • Created notification tooling to allow customer-facing teams to receive SMS notifications based on user-defined filters.

Open Source Contributions

  • Maintainer: distribution/distribution
  • Responsibilities: Discuss and review PRs with community members, join monthly standups, collaborate with maintainers to decide project direction.

Skills

  • Languages: Go, Python
  • Linux: Alpine, Debian, RHEL, Shell scripting
  • Databases: RethinkDB, PostgresQL
  • Tools: Docker, Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Conductor, Dagger, DataDog, Cursor, Claude, Helm, Jira, Shortcut, Salesforce, Melange, APKO, eBPF, gRPC
  • Cloud and Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Minio, Firecracker, Terraform, AWS, GCS, Azure, Operator SDK

Education

Bachelor of Science – Information Technology: East Carolina University (2011), Greenville, NC

Previously Held Certifications: Red Hat Certified Architect (License 111-090-163), Red Hat Datacenter Specialist (License 111-090-163), Docker Certified Associate

Red Hat Certificates of Expertise: Clustering and Storage Management; Certified Virtualization Administrator; Hybrid Cloud Storage; Deployment and Systems Management; Server Hardening

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