Brent Barbachem
Senior Software Engineer at IIEC-Redhat Linux
Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolBrent Barbachem is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and autonomous systems, currently at IIEC-Redhat Linux in Virginia Beach. He has deep expertise in DevOps and back-end engineering for OpenShift, contributing to high-profile repos like openshift/installer and openshift/release to harden AWS and GCP provisioning, CI/CD automation, and service account and IAM workflows. Prior roles include software architecture and senior engineering for autonomous maritime and multi-domain vehicles at Spatial Integrated Systems and Huntington Ingalls, plus R&D work at SPAWAR, giving him a rare blend of defense-grade systems design and cloud platform operational experience. He holds a BS in Computer Science and a MEng in Modeling, Simulation & Visualization, and is known for pragmatic fixes that simplify deployment complexity—often by automating region handling, validation, and cleanup across cloud platforms.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.64, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.64 at James Madison UniversityMaster of Engineering - MEng, Modeling Simulation and Visualization Engineering, 3.94, Master of Engineering - MEng, Modeling Simulation and Visualization Engineering, 3.94 at Old Dominion University
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Github Skills (24)
kubernetes10
scripting10
cloud-infrastructure10
terraform10
cicd10
gcp10
terraformer10
automation10
script10
go10
openshift10
aws10
kubernetes-pods10
sh10
automations10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/installer
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Install an OpenShift 4.x cluster
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:673 reviews, 44 commits, 178 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Brent focused on resolving issues within the AWS and GCP infrastructure setup, specifically addressing empty string usages, missing regions, and implementing dynamic region retrieval. Their work involved modifying core configuration files for both AWS and GCP installations, including updates to service endpoints and the addition of GCP-specific resources to cluster-api manifests. The user also contributed to the removal of unused tests and configurations for AWS, along with making other improvements related to IAM permissions and load balancer configurations, and adding code for service account validation.
gcpvmsansiblelibvirtopenshift
openshift/release
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Release tooling for OpenShift
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:46 reviews, 2 commits, 34 PRs in 4 days
Contributions summary:Brent primarily focuses on automating and configuring the CI/CD pipeline for OpenShift releases. Their contributions involve scripting and modifying shell scripts to manage infrastructure, particularly on GCP and AWS. They work on updating the deployment and deprovisioning steps, creating new jobs, and adjusting timeouts. The user's work also encompasses patching install configurations to align with changes in deployment workflows and platform integrations.
continuous-deploymentkubernetesopenshifttooling
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