About Me

Hello, I'm Sam Stoelinga, a passionate Open Source advocate and contributor. I've contributed to open source projects such as Weaviate, K8s, OpenStack and Kaniko. I'm the creator of https://websu.io and bgdestroyer.com. Need some help? That's possible, you can hire me as consultant.

My day job at Google Cloud is to help customers with adopting GCP, specifically focusing on K8s, Istio and other related technologies. This allows me to help customers with solving their challenging use cases and problems. Opinions and solutions provided on this blog are provided by me as an individual and do not represent my employer.

In my free time I enjoy soccer, skateboarding, working on open source and playing things

I'm trying to become a better public speaker by publicly speaking. See some appearances here:

• Hybrid vs Multi-Cloud 2019
• Kubecon/ServerlessCon: Multi-Cloud Messaging with Functions 2019
• IstioCon 2021: Redis TLS origination with a sidecar
• Kubecon 2022: Migrating from PodSecurityPolicy

Highlights of my recent open source contributions:

• Created the Weaviate Spark Connector
• Kaniko: Move from Google internal CI to Public CI and various other Prs
• Updating the Weaviate OpenAI module to use embedding API
• K8s Cluster Autoscaler: Fix GCE so OSS autoscaler works on GKE
• K8s DaemonSet to load CA onto GKE nodes so you can pull down images from self-signed certs
• Terraform GCP provider support for Filestore attribute
• CVE-2013-2059: OpenStack Security vulnerability where tokens weren't invalidated when user is deleted

Last updated: Sat 08 April 2023