Brandon Perkins
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer at Red Hat
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Perkins is a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer with 18 years of experience building and leading QA and infrastructure efforts for enterprise systems, primarily at Red Hat. He specializes in release configuration management, automation, system and application security, and large-scale lab and test infrastructure, and has hands-on experience writing test harnesses and automation in Perl, Bash, and Java. At Red Hat he led transitions of QA teams and infrastructure across countries, designed EOL processes for Satellite/Proxy, and built automated suites for cloud AMI/AKI validation and cluster high-availability testing. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he improved OpenStack fence-agents by adapting to API changes, hardening client handling, and adding secure logging and certificate features. He blends deep systems administration and release engineering experience with a pragmatic approach to QA leadership and mentorship, informed by an MS in Information Science and a BS in Computer Science.
17 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of North Carolina at CharlotteEast Wake High SchoolMS, Information Science, MS, Information Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
English
Github Skills (11)
openstack10
api10
python10
apidoc10
cloud-infrastructure9
error-handling9
cloud-services9
logging8
automations7
automation7
cicd4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ClusterLabs/fence-agents
Mar 2011 - Apr 2021
Fence agents
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 10 commits, 1 PR in 10 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily contributed to the `fence-agents` repository by modifying the OpenStack agent. Their work included adapting the agent to API changes, refactoring the code for improved efficiency, and adding new functionalities like list and list-status capabilities. They also focused on improving the agent's robustness by addressing various client exceptions and implementing features like logging and certificate handling for secure communication. Furthermore, they implemented formatting and exception handling for the nova-login function.
fenceinternet-computeragentsdfinity
bdperkin/haproxytech
Nov 2019 - Jan 2022
Contributions:150 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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