Chris Collins
Principal Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Red Hat
Ewa Beach, Hawaii, United States
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Top SchoolChris Collins is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer with 12+ years of experience building and automating cloud-native infrastructure, currently leading SRE efforts at Red Hat. He brings deep expertise in containers, Kubernetes/OpenShift, Go and Python, and a track record of improving operational efficiency through tooling, configuration management (Ansible, Terraform, Puppet), and high-load web architecture. His career grew from Linux systems and web hosting leadership at Duke University to senior SRE responsibilities, blending hands-on engineering with team leadership and DevOps advocacy. An active open-source contributor, he has improved robustness in OpenShift managed-cluster tooling, demonstrating attention to detail in production-grade scripts and iterative refinement. Based in Ewa Beach, Hawaii, he pairs practical reliability engineering with a curious, community-minded spirit—brewer and Godzilla hunter by hobby.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BA Performing Arts, BA Performing Arts at Clemson University
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Github Skills (11)
sh10
bash10
script10
shell10
openshift10
scripting10
cicd7
cd7
version-control7
automations7
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/managed-cluster-config
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
Static deployable artifacts for managed OSD clusters
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 7 commits, 13 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Chris's commits primarily involve modifications to a shell script (`cluster-upgrade.sh`) within the context of OpenShift managed cluster configuration. These changes include quoting variables, adding comments to clarify non-numeric version handling, and removing and adding comments, suggesting a focus on improving the script's robustness and clarity. The repetitive nature of updates and the consistent co-authoring suggest iterative refinement of a specific utility within the project.
deployableclusterskubernetesartifactsosd
clcollins/goHelloWorld
May 2019 - May 2024
Contributions:10 releases, 6 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 1 month
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