Borja Castanera
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolBorja Castanera is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native and distributed systems, currently working on OpenShift Hosted Control Planes at Red Hat. He has deep hands-on expertise across Kubernetes, Go, CI/CD and cloud providers (GCP, Azure, AWS), gained through roles at VMware, Broadcom/VMware Tanzu, SAP and long-term contributions to the kyma-project test infrastructure. Borja has driven projects that span from OS-level machine configuration agents and cluster API integration to refactoring complex release pipelines and test automation for Gardener clusters. He combines practical SRE/DevOps skills with software architecture instincts, enabling reliable automation across the full stack from cluster control planes down to host OS configuration. An active open-source contributor, his work on Kyma’s CI/CD and release tooling shows a talent for reducing test surface and improving release hygiene in large distributed projects. Based in Munich, he pairs enterprise-scale cloud experience with a background in secure messaging and web platforms, giving him unusual breadth across virtualization, OS internals and cloud-native ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Program IT Computer Science Web, Exchange Program IT Computer Science Web at Linnaeus UniversityUPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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Github Skills (29)
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docker10
testing10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
greenkeeper10
go10
ci-cd-pipeline10
kubernetes-pods10
jenkins10
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
kyma-project/kyma
Aug 2018 - Oct 2022
Kyma is an opinionated set of Kubernetes-based modular building blocks, including all necessary capabilities to develop and run enterprise-grade cloud-native applications.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:70 reviews, 57 commits, 99 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Borja primarily focused on improving the CI/CD pipeline and automating various aspects of the Kyma project. Their contributions include refactoring the build pipeline, defining versions in a release-compatible way, and implementing Azure versions file uploads. The user also worked on skipping integration tests for pull requests with only component changes and made adjustments to the release job. Furthermore, they addressed issues with linter configurations and test coverage reporting.
cloud-nativekuberneteskymaknative
kyma-project/test-infra
Sep 2018 - Oct 2022
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:28 reviews, 41 commits, 75 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Borja primarily focused on modifying and maintaining the CI/CD pipelines for the Kyma project's test infrastructure. They updated and created jobs, particularly for integration tests, including those for Gardener clusters (Azure, GCP, and AWS). They also made adjustments to the build process, go modules, and tooling used in the pipelines.
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