Bryn Reeves
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Rushmoor, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBryn Reeves is a Principal Software Engineer with 26 years of experience, currently shaping Red Hat’s storage stack by working on kernel and userspace components and maintaining the widely-used sos data collection tool. He brings deep expertise in open source development, debugging, and observability, with a strong track record of enhancing system log collection and integrating networking and device diagnostics into tooling. At Red Hat he has combined hands-on break-fix support for enterprise Linux customers with strategic engineering to improve product and subscription capabilities. Based in Rushmoor, England, he pairs rigorous Computer Science training (UCL, First Class) with a practical, long-term commitment to platform reliability and developer-friendly diagnostics. An often-unsung strength is his ability to translate low-level kernel and system insights into maintainable tooling that speeds support and incident resolution.
26 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc. Hons (1st Class), Computer Science, BSc. Hons (1st Class), Computer Science at University College London, U. of London
English, Welsh, Spanish, French, Irish
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sosreport/sos
Feb 2011 - Aug 2022
A unified tool for collecting system logs and other debug information
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 releases, 68 reviews, 1601 commits in 11 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Bryn primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of system log collection and debug information tools, as evidenced by numerous commits involving code fixes, enhancements, and the addition of new functionality to collect system logs and device details. They focused on enhancing the `sos` tool to better capture system data, including integration with networking tools and improvements in the handling of specific logs related to open-source and proprietary technologies. Their work included debugging, code refactoring, and broadening the scope of the tool's data collection capabilities.
loggingcollectingdebugsystem-logslogs
snapshotmanager/snapm
Oct 2023 - Jul 2026
Snapshot Manager
Contributions:11 releases, 192 reviews, 385 PRs in 2 years 8 months
linuxlvm2rollbacksnapshotsstorage
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