Amador Pahim
Senior Principal Software Engineer, Managed OpenShift at Red Hat
Waterford, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolAmador Pahim is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat with 14 years of experience building and operating large-scale, cloud-native platforms, currently focused on Managed OpenShift and Hosted Control Planes. He combines deep SRE and backend expertise—particularly in Python and virtualization—with a history of improving performance, stability, and automation across projects like oVirt/vdsm and the Avocado testing ecosystem. His work spans end-to-end systems: designing hybrid HPC clusters, Kubernetes integrations, GitOps infrastructure, and resilient incident response practices. A pragmatic mentor and collaborator, he regularly shares knowledge, runs blameless postmortems, and has driven QA and test automation improvements that reduce production risk. Based in Waterford, Ireland, he pairs academic rigor (MSc Computing) with hands-on operational experience dating back to network operations and university instruction. Notably, his contributions include low-level virtualization optimizations and porting legacy tests into modern frameworks—efforts that quietly boost reliability at scale.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computing, MSc, Computing at South East Technological University
French, English, Portuguese
Github Skills (26)
libvirt10
python10
iscsi10
test-framework10
networking10
java10
javas10
virtualization10
yaml10
error-handling10
test-automation10
autotest9
performance-testing9
packaging9
system-administration9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
avocado-framework/avocado
Jan 2016 - Oct 2019
Avocado is a set of tools and libraries to help with automated testing. One can call it a test framework with benefits. Native tests are written in Python and they follow the unittest pattern, but any executable can serve as a test.
Role in this project:
Test Automation Engineer
Test Automation EngineerContributions:531 commits, 920 PRs, 290 pushes in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Amador focused on integrating and porting existing automated tests from the Autotest framework to the Avocado framework. Their contributions involved implementing new tests such as stress and bonnie to evaluate hardware performance. The user demonstrated expertise in creating test suites by extending the Avocado framework and utilizing tools like Python and YAML to define and execute tests. They also worked on integrating test methods, including a focus on testing and verifying system performance.
pythontest-automationautomated-testingfollowtesting
avocado-framework/avocado-vt
Jan 2016 - Mar 2018
Avocado VT Plugin
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:28 commits, 31 PRs, 20 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Amador primarily contributes to the `avocado-vt` project by modifying existing test code and adding checks to skip tests if the necessary commands are missing. They addressed test failures by renaming exceptions, adding and fixing logging information. They interacted with the project's testing framework to ensure proper testing. The contributions indicate a focus on ensuring the robustness and reliability of the tests.
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