Andrew Collins
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Collins is a Principal Software Engineer with over a decade of experience focused on OpenShift performance and scalability at Red Hat. He specializes in maximizing pod density, tuning container runtimes and cgroup-v2 support, and pushing kube-burner and Prometheus configurations to reveal platform limits. Known for turning rigorous performance characterization into actionable fixes, he helps teams ship features with confidence while reducing resource footprints. His background spans hands-on consulting, automation with Ansible and bash, and production troubleshooting for Fortune 100 customers, giving him a rare blend of field experience and lab-driven optimization. Based in Sunnyvale, he brings a physics-and-computer-science foundation to systematic, measurement-driven improvements in large-scale container orchestration.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Physics, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Physics, Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (143)
tooling10
benchmark10
performance-testing10
perf10
elasticsearch10
load-testing10
commons10
scale10
golang10
continuous-deployment10
kubernetes10
benchmarking10
client-go10
prometheus10
openshift10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
afcollins/docker-bpms
Dec 2015 - Aug 2022
Contributions:2 pushes in 6 years 9 months
afcollins/drools
Oct 2015 - Aug 2022
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 11 months
droolsevent-processingcomplex-event-processingruleexpert
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