Gavin Kliger

Man’s grasp exceeds his imagination.

San Francisco Bay Area

About

Currently working on automating the health-mediated rollout and rollback of large scale, multi-cloud deployments across thousands of dynamically created Kubernetes clusters. I have worked on several research projects including autonomous cluster management, black box resource allocation, and a framework for parallelizing Pandas workloads across multiple nodes in supercomputing clusters.

Experience

  • Chief Data Officer at United States Department of War
    Dec 2025 - Apr 2026 · 5 mos

  • Senior Advisor to the Director for Technology and Delivery at U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
    Jan 2025 - Dec 2025 · 1 yr

  • Senior Software Engineer at Databricks
    May 2020 - Jan 2025 · 4 yrs 9 mos

  • Featured Speaker (KubeCon Europe) at Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
    Apr 2023 - Apr 2023 · 1 mo

    Was accepted to the European Kubernetes Convention (KubeCon Europe) as a featured speaker. Presented my work on Kubernetes controllers and health mediated release to 240 engineers in Amsterdam.

  • Accel Scholar at Accel
    Aug 2019 - Jul 2020 · 1 yr

    One of 25 Berkeley students selected for the Accel Scholars class of 2020