Blair Morrison
Senior Platform Engineer
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBlair Morrison is a Senior Platform Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating production OpenShift platforms and cloud-native infrastructure. Based in Raleigh, NC, he has a deep SRE background from multiple roles at Red Hat and currently focuses on platform reliability, automation, and observability using OpenShift, Python, Go, Ansible, Prometheus/Zabbix, and AWS. He has driven automation for managed OpenShift clusters—authored scripts that generate and deploy ConfigMaps and integrate with oc CLI—and contributed to the widely used openshift-tools repo for monitoring and operational scripting. Blair pairs hands‑on engineering with operational rigor, owning on‑call remediation playbooks and SOPs, and brings a pragmatic mix of QA, support, and platform engineering experience that helps teams move safely from development to scalable production.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Computer Engineering, Bachelors, Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (18)
monitoring10
kubernetes10
python10
scripting10
bash10
cicd10
automation10
openshift10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
automations10
json9
dockers9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/openshift-tools
Jan 2017 - Jul 2021
A public repository of scripts used by OpenShift Operations for various purposes
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:175 commits, 220 PRs, 105 pushes in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Blair primarily contributed to the automation and monitoring infrastructure of the OpenShift tools repository. Their commits focused on creating and modifying scripts for monitoring build statuses, container metrics, and system health. They also updated configuration files for cron jobs and daemonsets, demonstrating expertise in managing automated processes and integrating monitoring tools within the OpenShift environment.
public-repositorykubernetesopenshift
openshift/managed-cluster-config
Jul 2020 - Sep 2022
Static deployable artifacts for managed OSD clusters
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 25 commits, 15 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Blair primarily focused on automating the generation and deployment of configuration files for managed OpenShift clusters. They developed Python scripts and shell scripts to collect information about managed resources within a cluster, generate ConfigMaps, and update them. Their work involved integrating with `oc` CLI tools for cluster interaction and utilizing YAML formatting. They also automated processes related to OCP and addon namespaces.
deployableclusterskubernetesartifactsosd
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