Alex Oladele
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Oladele is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable, automated infrastructure and performance-driven systems, currently contributing to the Ansible Automation Platform Hub at Red Hat. He has a strong SRE and automation pedigree from IBM, where he managed GitHub Enterprise at scale for 65k+ users and reduced recurring incidents by half through Ansible, Terraform, Python, and robust change practices. Alex blends software development and performance engineering—his open-source contributions include cloud benchmarking improvements to GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker and integration test enhancements for ManageIQ—demonstrating deep expertise in cloud, OpenStack, and VM image workflows. He also led multi-threaded data pipelines and Kubernetes deployment automation for mission-critical quote-to-cash systems, helping protect over $1B in revenue. Based in Raleigh, NC, he pairs hands-on technical delivery with mentoring and developer enablement, having created onboarding content and led developer guilds to raise team capability.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Software Engineering at Miami University
English
Github Skills (15)
testing10
performance-testing10
manageiq10
linux10
openstack10
selenium-ide10
pytest10
selenium10
cloud-computing10
python10
gcp10
virtualization9
automations8
automation8
infrastructure-as-code8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker
Mar 2016 - Feb 2018
PerfKit Benchmarker (PKB) contains a set of benchmarks to measure and compare cloud offerings. The benchmarks use default settings to reflect what most users will see. PerfKit Benchmarker is licensed under the Apache 2 license terms. Please make sure to read, understand and agree to the terms of the LICENSE and CONTRIBUTING files before proceeding.
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 16 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the project by modifying and adding features related to cloud infrastructure and virtual machine management within the OpenStack provider. Their work involved adding support for specific operating system images (RHEL, CentOS), disabling SELinux for MongoDB, and integrating external package repositories (EPEL) for installation dependencies. Furthermore, they addressed image-related issues within the OpenStack setup and implemented a feature to time commands executed within the virtual machines.
license-2licensedbenchmarkingapache-license-2pkb
ManageIQ/integration_tests
Mar 2014 - Mar 2016
ManageIQ integration tests
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:29 commits, 16 PRs, 6 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the integration tests for the ManageIQ project. Their work focused on enhancing existing tests and adding new ones to increase coverage, specifically around RHEV and cloud integrations. This included implementing placement policy tests, adding metrics, and refining existing test frameworks. They were also involved in performance testing, including UI bench testing.
pythontestingintegration-testspytestmanageiq
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