Chris Feist
Engineering Manager, High Availability at Red Hat
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Feist is an engineering manager with 21 years of experience leading Red Hat’s global High Availability team to deliver resilient RHEL clustering and HA solutions across on-prem, hybrid, and major cloud platforms. He blends hands-on systems engineering (Python, C/C++, filesystems, lvm2, security) with product-driven leadership—owning feature roadmaps, release cadence, and cross-organizational coordination with cloud, database, and ERP partners. Chris manages a distributed team of engineers and managers, driving career development while ensuring production-grade packaging, deployment, and testing practices. His background includes building unified clustering CLIs and GUIs, modernizing build systems, and maintaining core cluster components since early RHEL releases. An active contributor to ClusterLabs/resource-agents, he focuses on streamlining SRPM builds and deployment automation—a practical sign of his attention to delivery and operational quality. Based in Minneapolis, he pairs deep low-level expertise with a proven track record of shipping complex, interoperable HA systems at scale.
21 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science Electrical Engineering, Bachelors of Science Electrical Engineering at University of Minnesota
Github Skills (6)
bash10
scripting10
build-automation10
rpm9
packaging9
release-management9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ClusterLabs/resource-agents
Oct 2004 - Mar 2013
Combined repository of OCF agents from the RHCS and Linux-HA projects
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:161 commits, 2 comments in 8 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Chris's contributions primarily involve modifying and improving the build and deployment processes for the `clusterlabs/resource-agents` repository. This includes the development and modification of scripts for building SRPMs, fixing build processes, and updating the location of SRPMs. The user also worked on fixing issues related to the uninstall process and the correct installation location of init scripts, ensuring proper packaging and deployment. These changes are geared towards streamlining the software delivery lifecycle.
linuxagentsocf
feist/ccs
Aug 2010 - Mar 2016
Contributions:157 commits, 11 pushes in 5 years 7 months
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