Andrew Beekhof
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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RockstarAndrew Beekhof is a Principal Software Engineer based in Melbourne with 22 years of experience building and hardening high-availability systems. Best known for leadership on Pacemaker and deep contributions to Corosync, he combines low-level cluster engineering with pragmatic DevOps and documentation work across OpenStack and Kubernetes ecosystems. His contributions span core protocol fixes, graceful shutdown handling, and smarter resource management—often improving stability and predictable behavior in production clusters. Comfortable refactoring both C internals and automation tooling, he also tightens operational workflows through clearer manuals and test-driven changes. Colleagues rely on him for reducing noisy logs, refining failover/remediation behavior, and making HA systems more maintainable in complex environments.
22 years of coding experience
Github Skills (36)
laravel-nova10
kubernetes10
c-language10
system-programming10
python10
high-availability10
configuration-management10
linux10
bash10
c1110
networking10
c1710
go10
openstack10
api10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
ClusterLabs/pacemaker
Jan 2004 - Nov 2018
Pacemaker is an advanced, scalable High-Availability cluster resource manager
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 11580 commits, 154 PRs in 14 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Andrew made contributions primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the Pacemaker High-Availability cluster resource manager. Their work involved refactoring and improving the logging system to reduce noise, and they also implemented features for managing and distributing data for the "Bundle" resource type, including the addition of support for different network configurations and ensuring that the "stop" and "demote" actions for the contained resources were handled correctly. The user also improved the integration with existing configuration options by introducing the ability for setting the "stonith-watchdog-timeout" parameter.
high-availabilityresource-manager
ClusterLabs/resource-agents
Jul 2009 - Jul 2019
Combined repository of OCF agents from the RHCS and Linux-HA projects
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:29 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 10 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on updating and modifying build and integration processes. They made several changes related to the build process, including updates to `autogen.sh` to prefer unversioned binaries. Furthermore, the user implemented and refined compatibility and signaling features within the `send_arp` tools to align with the system requirements.
linux
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