Hi there! 👋

My name is Caleb and I live in Pōneke, Aotearoa (Wellington, New Zealand).

💪 Skills

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

• Go
• JavaScript
• VueJS
• HTML
• CSS
• Python
• PHP
• Bash
• Clojure

I’ve been working for 4 years on and with cloud technologies. The tools that I’m most confident in are:

• Kubernetes
• Containers
• Docker / Podman
• Terraform
• Cert-Manager
• nginx
• PowerDNS
• PostgreSQL
• Knative Serving
• Linux
• Helm
• Envoy
• Flux

The future is open and freely available; you can see all my contributions here.

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

🌐 Some sites I’ve built

• this one
• isolaet.com
• flattrack.io
• absolutelycraycray.com

🤔 Topics I’m interested in

• Automation
• Cloud Native systems architecture
• Collaboration
• Container orchestration
• Convergent web applications
• Databases
• Edge computing
• Frontend applications
• GitOps
• Image-based operating systems
• Infrastructure sovereignty
• Linux desktop
• Microservice architecture
• Multi-cloud
• Optimised container builds
• Reproduceable infrastructure
• Reproduceable software builds
• Secure software supply chain
• Serverless
• Service proxies (such as Envoy)
• Virtualisation
• WASM

💻 Projects

of current or past involvement

• Kubernetes (kubernetes.io)
  • k8s-conformance testing
    • writing tests in Go, which are consumed by every Kubernetes distribution when summitting their products
    • KubeCon North America 2020 talk: Contributing to Kubernetes Conformance Coverage
    • KubeCon Europe 2021 talk: Contributing to Kubernetes Conformance Coverage
    • KubeCon North America 2021 talk: Conformance Testing the Kubernetes API: Tooling that Makes the Difference
    • www.cncf.io/blog/2024/01/12/scaling-down-a-git-repo-a-tidy-up-of-cncf-k8s-conformance
  • k8s-conformance bot
    • for verifying the test results for each Kubernetes distribution
    • www.cncf.io/blog/2022/10/19/kubernetes-conformance-updates-for-october-2022
  • sig-k8s-infra
    • laying out the infrastructure used by the Kubernetes community
    • kubernetes.io/blog/2022/11/28/registry-k8s-io-faster-cheaper-ga
    • artifacts and registry cloud resource cost usage and traffic data graph aggregation
  • kubernetes.io/blog/2022/03/16/meet-our-contributors-au-nz-ep-02
  • kubernetes.dev/community/awards/2022
• 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
• FlatTrack (flattrack.io)
  • Built for small to medium flatting situations
  • Go backend
  • VueJS frontend
  • Scales well
  • Built for Postgres

📧 Contact

Contact me at calebwoodbine[dot]public[at]gmail[dot]com