Chris Procter
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Procter is a Senior Software Engineer and Linux specialist with over a decade of hands-on experience blending systems administration, automation and software development in enterprise environments. At Red Hat he now focuses on kernel module management for Kubernetes/OpenShift, including secureboot and OCI-based module signing, building on a long consulting track record in RHEL, Ansible, IdM and OpenShift. He is RHCA/RHCE certified, comfortable across Perl, Python, Bash and C, and repeatedly drives automation-first solutions—authoring Ansible modules such as DNS forwarder management for FreeIPA. Chris pairs deep infrastructure knowledge (storage, HA clustering, SELinux, container platforms) with a practical performance- and testing-oriented approach, and his background in astrophysics and telecoms underscores a methodical, measurement-driven mindset.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Astrophysics, BSc, Astrophysics at Liverpool John Moores UniversityMSc, Telecommunications Technology, MSc, Telecommunications Technology at Aston University
Github Skills (9)
management10
ansible-galaxy10
backend10
dns10
back-end-development10
python10
freeipa10
ansible10
runbook9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
freeipa/ansible-freeipa
Dec 2019 - May 2021
Ansible roles and modules for FreeIPA
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 7 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Chris developed a new module for managing DNS forwarder zones within the FreeIPA environment, indicating a focus on backend logic and API interactions. They implemented a Python module using Ansible, demonstrating proficiency in creating and managing configuration through automation. The user's work centered on adding functionality related to DNS management, integrating it within the Ansible-FreeIPA framework. The module allows users to add, delete, and configure DNS forwarder zones.
ansible-rolesansiblefreeipa-ansible-rolesfreeipaansible-role
chr15p/rh-kmm-konflux
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:44 PRs, 87 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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