Cale Rath

• Technical product owner of the IBM Cloud Satellite offering
• Display sound understanding of standard networking protocols, virtual networks and load balancing.
• Define cloud architecture for both hybrid and non-hybrid cloud solutions.
• Define highly secure and performant network architecture for IBM Cloud Kubernetes Container Service offering.
• Partner closely with several large enterprise customers to implement security, operational, compliance and privacy-related controls as part of cloud blueprints.
• Provide architectural leadership and guidance to technical teams to deliver robust, highly scalable and cost-effective solutions.
• Maintain compliance with cybersecurity regulations and measures and tracked, assessed, integrated and reported on modernization and migration processes.
• Provide solution designs to meet system strategies, capabilities and technologies and to respond to current and future business requirements.
• Recommend design changes to production systems in response to changing business process, capacity, risks, cost reduction exercises and performance requirements.
• Design and implemented system security and data assurance.

• Led multiple development teams focused on implementing Kubernetes cloud network architecture for IBM Cloud
• Developed Cloud Controller Management code in Go for Kubernetes service load balancing
• Applied devops strategy for the network teams which developed, tested, deployed and operated all network-related code and configuration for 3 products: IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service, Red Hat Openshift on IBM Cloud Service, and IBM Cloud Satellite.
• Analyzed, troubleshot and enhanced network performance to drive efficiency.
• Led meetings with departmental managers to review project status, propose changes and draft action plans.
• Acquired and maintained advanced knowledge of networking protocols.
• Diagnosed network problems involving combination of hardware, software, power and communications issues.
• Wrote, reviewed and edited technical document in accordance with template requirements.
• Trained and mentored junior engineers, providing guidance and direction.

• Led a development team working upstream on Openstack Nova, an open source cloud compute project
• Contributed Python code to the Openstack open source project
• Performed thorough code reviews of upstream Git commits for the Openstack Nova project
• Ran Python unit tests and functional tests
• Developed and maintained a relationship with the Openstack open source community
• Deployed an Openstack cloud platform locally and worked with a team to scale the cloud to a global level
• Conducted research to identify and evaluate new technologies and concepts.
• Attended Openstack conferences and meetups directly working with the Openstack development community

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