Grace N.

Software Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States1 yr 11 mos experience

Key Highlights

Kubernetes Release Team member since v1.22
Spearheaded Kubernetes release process optimization
Advocate for diversity in tech through TechNova

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Kubernetes-focused Software Engineer with a strong emphasis on security and infrastructure.

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Skills

Core Skills

SecurityKubernetesSoftware Development

Other Skills

Enterprise Key ManagementAutomationProject ManagementTypeScriptJavaMobile Application DevelopmentPython (Programming Language)CommunicationLeadership

About

Hi 🌷 If we haven't met before, please add a message to your connection invitation 🤠 🖥 I'm interested in security and infrastructure. At my internship at Riskfuel, I overhauled the infrastructure secret management to improve reliability and security; check out the article in my featured section. 🌱 A communicator at heart, I enjoy public speaking and have spoken at Kubecon and HashiTalks. My love for scalable systems brought me to the Kubernetes open-source project where I've worked on the Release Team since v1.22. 🥕 I care deeply about diversity in tech. I was a founding member of TechNova, uWaterloo's first ever womxn hackathon. I also spent some time in VC supporting underrepresented founders at Envision.

Experience

Kubernetes

3 roles

Maintainer

Promoted

Apr 2025 – Present · 11 mos

SIG-Security 🤝 SIG-Release

Kubernetes

Release Team Subproject Lead

Apr 2024 – Apr 2025 · 1 yr

Advised Release Leads and mentored 30+ contributors per release.
Oversaw the merge of CI Signal and Bug Triage into Release Signal and Release Notes to Docs.
Strategized for long-term growth and project sustainability.

Kubernetes

Kubernetes Release Team

Apr 2021 – Apr 2024 · 3 yrs

Kubernetes v1.30 Emeritus Advisor
Kubernetes v1.28 Release Lead
Cut and distributed Kubernetes releases for v1.27 as Branch Manager Associate ✂
Spearheaded the optimization of the release process by integrating an automated Github Project Board, reducing toil for 34 teams, saving 100s of engineering hours, awarded the Kubernetes Contributor Award 2023 for this effort
Met the kindest people from this ecosystem :)

Kubernetes

Notion

2 roles

Software Engineer, Product Security

Promoted

Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

Enterprise Key Management

Enterprise Key ManagementSecurity

Software Engineer

May 2024 – Aug 2024 · 3 mos

Serving Infrastructure
Created the highest QPS service at Notion

TypeScriptSoftware Development

Expo

Software Engineer

Jan 2023 – Apr 2023 · 3 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States

TypeScriptSoftware Development

Asana

Software Engineering, Product Security

Aug 2022 – Nov 2022 · 3 mos

TypeScriptSoftware Development

Cisco meraki

Site Reliability Engineer

Jan 2022 – Apr 2022 · 3 mos

Riskfuel

DevOps Engineer

May 2021 – Aug 2021 · 3 mos

Kubernetes

Ericsson

Network Engineer

Sep 2020 – Dec 2020 · 3 mos

Kubernetes

Canada revenue agency - agence du revenu du canada

IT Analyst/Developer

Jan 2020 – Apr 2020 · 3 mos · Ottawa, Canada Area

University of alberta

Software Engineering Intern

Jul 2018 – Aug 2018 · 1 mo · Edmonton, Canada Area

Stem fellowship - student research and innovation network

Research Intern

Mar 2018 – Mar 2018 · 0 mo · Calgary, Canada Area

Researched and created a game to combine with brain-computer interface technology to support children with cerebral palsy practice controlling EEG-generated commands.