Bob Fahr
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Arkansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBob Fahr is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years in his current role at Red Hat and decades of engineering leadership across enterprises like EMC, Acxiom, and General Dynamics. He focuses on building open-source tooling that empowers businesses, contributing to notable projects such as RedHatInsights/insights-core where he improved data mappers and added rigorous tests for storage reducers. Bob pairs hands-on backend engineering with architectural thinking, guiding teams through scalable data collection and processing challenges. Uniquely, he also holds a JD and spent nearly a decade practicing law, bringing a disciplined, compliance-aware perspective to software design and delivery. Based in Arkansas, he blends practical leadership with a long history of mentoring and driving reliable systems in both commercial and open-source contexts.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at University of MemphisJD, JD at University of Arkansas at Little Rock, William H. Bowen School of LawMS, MS at Southern Methodist UniversityUniversity of Arkansas at Little Rock
Github Skills (5)
develop10
python10
data-processing10
testing10
git7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
RedHatInsights/insights-core
Jul 2016 - Nov 2022
Insights Core is a data collection and processing framework used by Red Hat Insights
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:416 reviews, 682 commits, 820 PRs in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Bob made updates to shared mappers within the insights-core repository, a data collection and processing framework. Their contributions focused on expanding the functionality of these mappers to support storage shared reducers, specifically within the context of the falafel framework. The code changes included modifications to existing Python files, and the addition of test cases to validate the changes. The user also refactored the blkid, df, and other mappers to use the MapperOutput class.
redhatinsights
bfahr/insights-core
Aug 2018 - Apr 2023
Insights Core is a data collection and processing framework used by Red Hat Insights
Contributions:30 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 9 months
redhat
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