Adrian Likins

United States

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Adrian Likins is a Principal Red Hat Linux engineer with 28 years of experience building high-performance systems and large-scale infrastructure, primarily focused on reliability, automation, and maintainability. He spent over two decades at Red Hat developing critical tooling—subscription-manager, Candlepin, Func, and contributions to Red Hat Network/Spacewalk—and later worked on Ansible core and Galaxy, improving internals, modules, and backend APIs for one of the most widely used open-source automation projects. Pragmatic and candid, Adrian prefers designs that reduce long-term maintenance burden and seeks roles that create genuinely valuable products without exploiting user privacy. He combines deep systems-level debugging (from certificate generation at scale to database-specific test failures) with DevOps and backend engineering, and is fluent in practical tradeoffs that expose future pain points.

28 years of coding experience

23 years of employment as a software developer

North Carolina State University

Github Skills (29)

ansible-module10

python10

apidoc10

django10

rest-framework10

command-line-interface10

configuration-management10

cicd10

automation10

api10

command-line10

ansible10

ansible-galaxy10

automations10

cli10

Programming languages (12)

TypeScriptDockerfileJavaC++ShellCSCSSJavaScript

Github contributions (5)

ansible/galaxy

Apr 2018 - Apr 2021

Legacy Galaxy still available as read-only on https://old-galaxy.ansible.com - looking for the new galaxy -> https://github.com/ansible/galaxy_ng

Role in this project:

Backend Developer

Contributions:5 reviews, 30 commits, 35 PRs in 3 years 1 month

Contributions summary:Adrian primarily contributed to backend development within the Ansible Galaxy project. They implemented features related to vendor attributes for namespaces, including modifications to API serializers, views, and database models. Additional contributions included enhancements to API functionality with the addition of request ID logging and artifact download counts. They also addressed authentication issues, fixed flake8 linting, and replaced a deprecated library.

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ansible/ansible

Mar 2016 - Jan 2022

Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.

Role in this project:

Back-end & DevOps Engineer

Contributions:294 commits, 588 PRs, 240 pushes in 5 years 10 months

Contributions summary:Adrian's contributions primarily involve debugging and improving the Ansible project's internals. They fixed issues related to command-line interface usage, configuration files, and plugin interactions. They also addressed defects in the area of automated tests. Their work involved modifications in core system utilities and libraries and contributed to the overall stability and maintainability of the project.

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