Chad Roberts
Staff Software Engineer at SUSE
Flushing, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolChad Roberts is a Staff Software Engineer with over 27 years in engineering and 11 years in senior roles focused on building and scaling secure, production-grade systems. Based in Flushing, Michigan, he has led backend and authentication work at notable open-source projects like Rancher, improving token management, password policies, and OIDC provider integrations. His long tenure at Red Hat and current role at SUSE reflect deep expertise in enterprise Linux, cloud-native tooling, and access control for container platforms. Known for pragmatic security-first thinking, he blends hands-on code contributions with architectural leadership across distributed systems. He started his career at ProQuest and brings a practical, mentor-oriented approach to driving reliability and developer productivity. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex security and identity requirements into maintainable engineering solutions.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Central Michigan University
Stackoverflow
1reputation
283reached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (16)
user-authentication10
authentication10
kubernetes10
go10
rancher10
kubernetes-pods10
apidoc9
api9
oid9
container8
docker8
dockers8
selenium-webdriver6
protractor6
selenium6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
rancher/rancher
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Complete container management platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:366 reviews, 18 commits, 185 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Chad primarily contributed to the back-end logic and authentication aspects of the Rancher platform. Their work involved modifying user authentication flows, preventing password reuse, and updating token management. The user made changes to several core files, demonstrating a focus on security and access control within the Rancher ecosystem. Additionally, they worked on improving the generic OIDC provider.
containersorchestrationdockerrancherkubernetes
crobby/oshinko-cli
Dec 2016 - Oct 2018
Command line interface for spark cluster management app
Contributions:2 releases, 43 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 10 months
pythoncommand-line-interfacecluster-managementsparkapp-management
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