Kia Ora, I’m Caleb 👋 and I live in 📍 Pōneke, Aotearoa (Wellington, New Zealand).

I’m passionate about meaningfully empowering others through building infrastructure and software using Cloud Native and Open Source technologies, enabling what was not thought to be possible before.

💪 Skills 🔗

I love to build meaningful software – it is my passion. I write in

GoBashCSSHTMLJavaScriptPHPPythonVueJSClojure

I’ve been using and working on cloud technologies professionally for six years. The tools that I’m most confident in are

KubernetesLinuxDockerPodmanContainersPostgreSQLKnative ServingCraneEnvoyProxyFluxCDGitHubGitLabHelmHugoIstioPowerDNSSigstoreTerraformcert-managernginx

The future is open and freely available; you can see all my contributions on GitHub and GitLab.

I also like to make music, check out my project isolaet.

🌐 Websites 🔗

Here’s some websites I’ve built

• this site: home
• isolaet.com: my music project
• flattrack.io: collaboration software
• chalkhouse.nz: animation studio
• absolutelycraycray.com: animation studio
• liamfitzpatrick.art: portfolio

🤔 Interests 🔗

I align with these

Audio EngineeringAutomationAviationCloud Native Systems ArchitectureCollaborationContainer OrchestrationConvergent Web ApplicationsDatabasesEdge ComputingEmpathetic DesignFrontend ApplicationsGitopsImage-Based Operating SystemsImmutable InfrastructureImmutable Operating SystemsInfrastructure SovereigntyLinux DesktopMicroservice ArchitectureMinimalismMulti-CloudNeeds Before SolutionNew Zealand CloudOptimised Container BuildsPeople-FirstReproduceable InfrastructureReproduceable Software BuildsSecure Software Supply ChainServerlessService Proxies With EnvoySound DesignVirtualisation

💻 Projects 🔗

Here’s some projects I’ve been involved in

• Kubernetes (kubernetes.io)
  • k8s-conformance testing
    • writing tests in Go, which are consumed by every Kubernetes distribution when summitting their products
  • k8s-conformance bot
    • for verifying the test results for each Kubernetes distribution
  • sig-k8s-infra
    • laying out the infrastructure used by the Kubernetes community
    • artifacts and registry cloud resource cost usage and traffic data graph aggregation
• FlatTrack (flattrack.io)
  • Built for small to medium flatting situations
  • Go backend
  • VueJS frontend
  • Postgres database
  • Scalable
• Safe Surfer (safesurfer.io)
  • Production grade PowerDNS on Kubernetes
  • OpenWRT-based Routers
  • Web services
  • Desktop app
  • Android app
  • Web servers like go-http-server
  • Complete infrastructure rebuild
• Pairing platforms
  • A Kubernetes native pairing environment github.com/sharingio/pair; using cluster-api, PowerDNS as well as custom tooling and configuration to tie the stack together

👀 In the wild 🔗

Presentations are here.

Other things include:

• CNCF 2024 community awards
• Knative blog: Knative Serving RuntimeClassNames
• CNCF blog: scaling down a git repo a tidy up of CNCF k8s-conformance
• CNCF blog: Kubernetes conformance updates for October 2022
• Kubernetes blog: registry.k8s.io faster cheaper GA
• Kubernetes blog: meet our contributors AU NZ EP02
• Kubernetes community awards 2022

📧 Contact 🔗

Contact me at calebwoodbine[dot]public[at]gmail[dot]com or on Linkedin