Christopher Blum
Product Manager at IBM
Berlin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Blum is a Product Manager with 13 years of experience specializing in distributed systems, automation, and storage, currently shaping IBM Storage products from Berlin. He has deep roots in open-source storage—especially Ceph—and spent significant time driving OpenShift Data Foundation and edge storage product strategy at Red Hat. Christopher blends hands-on engineering (Golang/Python) and DevOps automation with product leadership, having automated complex ODF/OpenShift deployments for interactive learning environments like the popular openshift-labs/learn-katacoda. His background includes SRE, systems architecture, and CTO-level infrastructure work, giving him a rare combination of field-facing consulting and backend systems design. He focuses on reducing cognitive load through automation to free teams for innovation, and often surfaces migration and rollout paths across large heterogeneous infrastructures. Practical, technical, and product-minded, he excels at turning storage complexity into reliable, user-friendly services.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at RWTH Aachen
English, German, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
kubernetes10
bash10
automation10
openshift10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
automations10
dockers9
docker9
cicd8
collections6
itext6
custom-attributes6
inheritance6
msbuild-task6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
openshift-labs/learn-katacoda
Apr 2020 - Apr 2021
The OpenShift learning portal, powered by Katacoda
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:24 commits, 5 PRs, 8 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily focused on setting up and configuring OpenShift/ODF (Open Data Foundation) within the Katacoda learning environment. Their work involved creating and modifying scripts to automate ODF installation, including the setup of operators, storage classes, and persistent volumes. They also integrated tracking mechanisms and updated the deployment scripts to leverage newer versions and address compatibility issues.
commonsopenshiftportalkuberneteslearning-portal
mulbc/learn-katacoda
Jul 2020 - Feb 2021
The OpenShift learning portal, powered by Katacoda
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 53 pushes in 7 months
openshiftportalkuberneteslearning-portalkatacoda
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