Christina Lin is a developer relations and advocacy leader with 12 years of experience building bridges between engineering teams and developer communities, now leading Developer Relations Engineering for the Americas at Google. She combines deep hands-on expertise in cloud-native and OpenShift deployments with a track record of crafting developer advocacy strategies, technical demos, and education programs at Redpanda and Red Hat. Christina’s background as a portfolio architect and solution architect means she pairs customer-facing sales enablement with repeatable architecture patterns and measurable outcomes. An active contributor to OpenShift-focused repos and automation workflows, she brings practical DevOps and deployment experience—especially around operator lifecycle and Katacoda learning scenarios—that informs her community programs. Multilingual and grounded in systems-level skills (Web Services, Linux, SQL), she excels at turning complex technical concepts into engaging, actionable content.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at University of Auckland
The OpenShift learning portal, powered by Katacoda
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
Contributions:30 commits, 10 PRs, 4 comments in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Christina primarily focused on configuring and updating the environment setup for deploying and running Fuse applications within an OpenShift environment. Their contributions involved modifying shell scripts to pull Docker images, configure OpenShift projects, apply application templates, and manage user permissions. They also worked on updating Camel-K scenario and fixing version-related issues and broken deployments. The user demonstrates proficiency in automating tasks and managing dependencies within the OpenShift platform.
AgnosticD - Ansible Deployer for multiple Cloud Deployers
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:8 commits, 11 PRs, 1 comment in 7 months
Contributions summary:Christina's contributions center around configuring and deploying applications within an OpenShift environment. They made several changes to deployment configurations, including subscriptions and operator groups, primarily for the Data Grid and CodeReady Workspaces (CRW) components. The user's work involved updating configurations related to catalog sources, channels, and approval strategies for operators, leveraging snapshot catalogs and making adjustments for OpenShift 4.5. They also addressed timeout issues with workspaces.
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Christina Lin - Developer Relations Engineering Manager - Americas