Adam Kaplan is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat with over a decade of experience building cloud-native developer tooling and analytic applications. He leads an engineering team focused on improving the OpenShift developer experience and is a maintainer of Shipwright, an open-source framework for building container images on Kubernetes. His background spans consulting, startups, and platform engineering, with hands-on contributions to notable OpenShift projects like source-to-image and the OpenShift API where he implemented build-source types, secure logging redaction, and CI-driven release automation. Comfortable at the intersection of product, ops, and code, he combines rigorous requirements analysis with automation-first engineering to streamline build and release pipelines. Based in Raleigh, NC, he brings both strategic leadership and deep implementation experience across backend, DevOps, and API design.
A tool for building artifacts from source and injecting into container images
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:5 releases, 45 reviews, 44 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Adam's contributions primarily focus on improving the build process and overall functionality of the source-to-image tool. They fixed comments, improved URL redaction, and addressed issues related to volume parsing. They also introduced features such as keeping injected files in Dockerfile builds and ensuring correct user handling within the build environment, especially concerning allowed UIDs. Furthermore, the user contributed to testing and addressing build failures.
Shipwright - a framework for building container images on Kubernetes
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
Contributions:187 reviews, 39 commits, 51 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily focused on automating the build and release process for the Shipwright project. They implemented an initial image release pipeline using Travis CI and Docker, pushing images to quay.io upon release tags and merges to the main branch. Additionally, the user contributed to the project's build automation by creating and integrating scripts for copyright generation and verification, as well as adding targets to the Makefile for code generation.
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Adam Kaplan - Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat