Cedric Clyburn is a Developer Advocate and cloud-native engineer based in New York with six years of hands-on experience simplifying developer workflows and infrastructure. He focuses on automating learning and demo environments, notably contributing DevOps improvements to the OpenShift learning portal powered by Katacoda, where he streamlined Tekton CLI setup and fixed deployment issues. Cedric blends advocacy with engineering, making complex serverless and Java environment setups accessible for interactive tutorials and labs. He excels at translating operational pain points into repeatable scripts and configuration changes that improve the developer experience. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he often targets subtle infrastructure friction—like environment bootstrapping and CI/CD edge cases—that derail onboarding. His background positions him to bridge product teams, community education, and platform reliability.
The OpenShift learning portal, powered by Katacoda
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:3 reviews, 63 commits, 29 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Cedric primarily focused on automating and configuring the development environment for the Katacoda OpenShift learning portal. Their contributions include setting up the Tekton CLI and adapting bash scripts for the interactive environment, as well as merging updates for the Serverless operator and Java environment setup. They also implemented fixes to deployment issues and made minor formatting changes, demonstrating a focus on improving infrastructure and streamlining the developer experience within the Katacoda environment.
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