Christian Glombek
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Glombek is a seasoned cloud-native engineer with a decade of experience building and shipping production-grade infrastructure, currently focused on sovereign IT solutions at cosa.systems while leading OKD Streams in Red Hat’s OpenShift division. He brings deep expertise in OpenShift internals, machine-config automation, and installer/bootstrapping workflows—demonstrated by substantial contributions to high-profile OpenShift projects like machine-config-operator and the OpenShift installer. Comfortable bridging software and DevOps, he has modernized build systems, dependency management, and Terraform provider integrations while improving OS configuration handling and bootstrap testing. A pragmatic team lead and hands-on developer, he progressed through Red Hat from intern to senior engineer, working across Fedora CoreOS, RHEL CoreOS and Windows containers. Based in Hamburg, he pairs engineering rigor with an interdisciplinary background in business management and electrical power engineering, enabling a systems-level perspective on product and infrastructure trade-offs.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Business Management & Electrical Power Engineering, Business Management & Electrical Power Engineering at RWTH Aachen University
Github Skills (20)
kubernetes10
apidoc10
testing10
terraform10
cicd10
terraformer10
go10
openshift10
api10
aac10
kubernetes-pods10
infrastructure-as-code10
dockers9
docker9
yaml9
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/machine-config-operator
Feb 2019 - Oct 2022
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:47 reviews, 74 commits, 87 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Christian primarily contributed to the machine-config-operator project by modifying code related to the core functionality of the operator. Their contributions included updating and modifying ClusterOperator objects, adjusting configurations, and bumping dependencies. They also made changes to internal APIs and structures as well as added new functionality for handling different OS configurations, and enhancing the build and deployment process. Furthermore, they made several changes related to test case setup.
openshift/installer
Dec 2019 - Sep 2022
Install an OpenShift 4.x cluster
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:14 reviews, 40 commits, 51 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Christian's contributions focus on preparing the OpenShift installer for Go Modules and upgrading to Go 1.13, indicated by changes to build scripts and dependency management. They also migrated various Terraform providers to the terraform-plugin-sdk and addressed a GCP uninstaller bug related to base path changes. Furthermore, the user updated vendor dependencies and made modifications to the Ignition configuration, upgrading it to v3.1 and enhancing various bootstrap related files.
gcpvmsansiblelibvirtopenshift
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