Alison Hart
Senior Software Engineer - Ansible DevTools at Red Hat
Greater Tampa Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAlison Hart is a Senior Software Engineer and team lead at Red Hat with eight years of experience building and shipping automation and developer tooling for Ansible. She has driven cross-team initiatives—leading the Ansible DevTools team and previously owning design and delivery for the Ansible VS Code extension and integrations with generative AI services—while also serving as a subject-matter expert on content certification for over 70 partners. Her open-source contributions to ansible-lint show a focus on automation quality, metadata validation, and developer workflow reliability (pre-commit and tox fixes). With a background in network engineering and large-scale Juniper/Palo Alto automation, she blends infrastructure-first thinking with developer UX sensibilities. Colleagues rely on her for practical, standards-driven processes that improve content reliability and accelerate partner onboarding.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Florida Polytechnic University
English
Github Skills (12)
ansible-lint10
automation10
automations10
ansible-galaxy10
devops10
python10
ansible10
pre-commit-hook9
cicd9
precommit9
github-ci8
githubaction-workflow8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible-lint
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
ansible-lint checks playbooks for practices and behavior that could potentially be improved and can fix some of the most common ones for you
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:23 reviews, 2 commits, 24 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alison primarily contributed to the automation and quality assurance aspects of the Ansible Lint project. Their work included adding and modifying rules, specifically related to metadata validation, galaxy integration, and sanity checks. They also fixed pre-commit and tox configurations, demonstrating a focus on ensuring code quality and maintaining the project's development infrastructure.
pre-commit-hooklinterlintimprovedansible-lint
alisonlhart/ansible-navigator
Dec 2021 - Feb 2025
A text-based user interface (TUI) for the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
Contributions:1 review, 36 PRs, 214 pushes in 3 years 2 months
user-interfacepythonansiblelinuxred-hat
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