Charles Shi
Senior Software Quality Engineer (Automotive) at Red Hat
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Shi is a Senior Software Quality Engineer with a decade of R&D experience spanning telecom and software industries, currently ensuring functional-safety-grade kernel quality for Red Hat's automotive RHEL offering. He combines deep performance and virtualization testing expertise with hands-on leadership—having led multi-cloud performance teams and built CI-backed benchmarking frameworks that reduced manual effort. A committed knowledge sharer since 2006, he regularly organizes tech talks, QECamp events, and mentors teams to raise collective capability and morale. Charles pairs a pragmatic, geeky problem-solving style with a people-first approach, prioritizing both technical excellence and team happiness. Based in Boston, he brings enterprise-grade testing rigor informed by prior roles at Alcatel‑Lucent and extensive cross-cloud validation experience. Outside work he channels the same enthusiasm into community roles like Toastmasters and internal Red Hat initiatives, making technical work more accessible.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Science, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Science at China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing
Chinese, English
Github Skills (52)
podman10
kubernetes10
test-results10
container10
docker10
test-project10
cloud-api10
linux10
pods10
runc10
sdk10
testing9
development-kit9
performance-testing9
python9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
schrht/Cloud_Test
Jun 2017 - Apr 2020
A bundle of very simple test suites for public clouds.
Contributions:1 release, 202 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 10 months
testingbundlesuitessimple-testclouds
schrht/virt-perf-scripts
Dec 2017 - Nov 2020
Virtualization performance test scripts for network and block devices.
Contributions:1 review, 189 commits, 14 PRs in 2 years 11 months
virtualizationperformanceperformance-testtest-scripts
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