Brendan Bergen
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Red Hat
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrendan Bergen is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with roughly a decade of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, currently leading a functional team for Azure Red Hat OpenShift at Red Hat. He blends deep SRE and DevOps expertise—Golang/Python development, CI/CD automation, Kubernetes (CKA certified), and cross-company collaboration with Microsoft—to ship reliable, secure platforms across 50+ regions. Brendan is pragmatic about reducing toil: he’s built GitOps pipelines, automated onboarding that shrank provisioning time to minutes, and fixed flaky VM redeploy tests in the ARO RP repo to improve stability. He mentors and aligns teams, authors design docs and SOPs, and consistently pushes for better technical, cultural, and procedural outcomes. Notably, his work on ARO includes re-enabling egress lockdown and tightening authentication for safer RHCOS uploads, reflecting a security-first operational mindset.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Mathematical Sciences, Bachelor of Arts, Mathematical Sciences at Bethel College-North Newton
English, German
Github Skills (11)
azure10
kubernetes10
go10
microsoft-azure10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
test-automation9
docker8
dockers8
terraform7
terraformer7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/ARO-RP
Jan 2022 - Nov 2022
Azure Red Hat OpenShift RP
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:956 reviews, 17 commits, 109 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Brendan's contributions primarily revolve around improving the deployment and operational aspects of the Azure Red Hat OpenShift RP repository. They fixed path typos and addressed issues related to ACR domain name generation, improving the reliability of deployments. Furthermore, the user re-enabled the egress lockdown feature and updated authentication methods, ensuring security and proper RHCOS uploads. The user also addressed VM redeploy test flakes, improving test stability.
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SudoBrendan/ARO-RP
Jan 2022 - Mar 2024
Azure Red Hat OpenShift RP
Contributions:145 pushes, 37 branches in 2 years 1 month
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