Casey Hartman
Senior Software Engineer at Self-Employed
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolCasey Hartman is a Senior Software Engineer with 18+ years of hands-on experience in product architecture, full-stack development, DevOps and observability, currently focused on OpenShift Observability at Red Hat. He blends methodical engineering and practical leadership from roles ranging from lead integrations developer to director of QA, consistently improving user experience and operational reliability. Casey has strong cloud and infrastructure expertise—contributing to the OpenShift cluster-logging-operator by building AWS/CloudWatch integrations, STS-based deployments, and pod security configurations for secure, scalable log forwarding. He also runs an independent consulting practice and has a track record of shipping web and e-commerce platforms while mentoring teams on processes and code quality. Known for being determined and loyal, he pairs a pragmatic, security-minded approach with a curiosity for new technologies and workflows. Based in Wilmington, NC, his background in electrical engineering and long history of owning projects end-to-end gives him a systems-level perspective that surfaces non-obvious operational improvements.
4 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Minot State UniversityElectrical Engineering, Math & Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Math & Computer Science at The University of North Dakota
English
Github Skills (19)
kubernetes10
cloud-infrastructure10
cicd10
vector10
automation10
openshift10
aws10
kubernetes-pods10
logging10
automations10
vector-math10
cloud-services10
dockers9
security9
docker9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/cluster-logging-operator
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Operator to support logging subsystem of OpenShift
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:258 reviews, 27 commits, 112 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Casey primarily contributed to the infrastructure and deployment aspects of the OpenShift logging operator. Their work focused on creating and configuring AWS resources, specifically for cloudwatch logging using STS (Security Token Service). They implemented scripts for creating logging resources and setting up log forwarding, including updates for Vector-based cloudwatch forwarding. The user also added pod security configurations, ensuring compliance with security best practices for containerized deployments.
subsystemfluentdloggingopenshiftoperator
cahartma/cluster-logging-operator
Nov 2021 - Apr 2025
Operator to support OKD cluster logging
Contributions:502 pushes, 256 branches in 3 years 4 months
loggingoperatorokdkubernetescluster
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.