Charlie Drage
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolCharlie Drage is a Senior Software Engineer and long-time Red Hat contributor with 11 years of experience building cloud-native tooling, release automation, and developer-focused container experiences. He maintains Kompose (graduated from the Kubernetes incubator) and contributes to Podman Desktop and odo, blending deep Kubernetes knowledge with pragmatic release engineering. Comfortable across the stack, Charlie has founded a KVM-based cloud provider, led backend and DevOps efforts, and improved large-scale VMware build processes—demonstrating both startup grit and enterprise-scale reliability. His open-source work spans CLI and UI improvements, automated release tooling, and multi-architecture Kubernetes deployments, reflecting a focus on developer workflow and reproducible delivery. A regular conference speaker, he pairs systems-level Linux/VM expertise with hands-on coding in Go, Ruby, and DevOps automation.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Information Technology, Computer Networking and Security, 2014, Bachelor's of Information Technology, Computer Networking and Security, 2014 at University of Ontario Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (50)
kubernetes10
javascript10
docker10
python10
streamlink10
command-line-interface10
cni10
typescript10
kubeadm10
dockers10
refactor10
cicd10
release-management10
flannel10
go10
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
kairen/kubeadm-ansible
Mar 2018 - Oct 2020
Build a Kubernetes cluster using kubeadm via Ansible.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:16 commits, 25 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Charlie primarily focused on enhancing the Ansible-based Kubernetes cluster deployment, specifically related to the CNI and Flannel configurations. They addressed issues with the Flannel deployment by adding support for multiple architectures. Moreover, they modified Calico configurations, updated networking settings, and incorporated best practices with daemonsets and pod security policies. These changes improved the usability and deployment process of the Kubernetes cluster, along with improving compatibility with new architectures.
ansiblekubeadmkubernetes-cluster
kubernetes/kompose
Feb 2023 - Feb 2023
Convert Compose to Kubernetes
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:53 releases, 115 reviews, 13 commits in 5 days
Contributions summary:Charlie's commits primarily focus on enhancing the functionality and maintainability of the Kompose project. This includes the addition of new tests and improvements related to service creation and annotations. Furthermore, the user implemented a release script to automate the changelog, GitHub releases, and package creation. These commits demonstrate a focus on improving the project's testing and the software delivery lifecycle.
kubernetesdockerdocker-composegocontainers
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