Christopher Sams
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc.
Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Sams is a Principal Software Engineer with 14 years of experience designing and operating large-scale data and cloud services, currently driving the engine behind Red Hat Insights and multiple AI-supporting platforms. He blends deep backend and DevOps expertise—evident from contributions to Kubernetes-like control planes and Red Hat’s insights-core data processing—to deliver secure, observable systems that span on-premise and cloud environments. His background ranges from middleware and JEE internals at Red Hat to backend architecture at Garmin, giving him a strong foundation in performance-sensitive, distributed systems. Notably, he’s implemented client certificate authentication and TLS termination for kcp front-proxy work and improved core data mappers and testing in insights-core, showing attention to both security and data quality. Based in Little Rock, Arkansas, he pairs mathematical rigor from a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science with pragmatic engineering leadership across cross-organizational initiatives.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics and Computer Science at Southern Arkansas University
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Github Skills (21)
kubernetes10
tls1210
reverse-proxy10
azure-application-insights10
python10
redhat10
nsight10
data-parsing10
tls1310
mtls10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
libtls10
azure-timeseries-insights10
unit-test10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
RedHatInsights/insights-core
Aug 2016 - Jan 2023
Insights Core is a data collection and processing framework used by Red Hat Insights
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 630 commits, 180 PRs in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the `insights-core` repository by modifying and refactoring code related to data parsing and processing. Their work involved updating and improving mappers, particularly the `date`, `meminfo`, and `fstab` mappers, to use the `MapperOutput` class, enhancing code maintainability and consistency. The user also added tests for the `ethtool` mapper and extended its functionality with a search capability, improving the testing and robustness of the project. Furthermore, the user made several code style improvements and flake8 compliance fixes.
red-hathatbig-datasparketl
kcp-dev/kcp
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Kubernetes-like control planes for form-factors and use-cases beyond Kubernetes and container workloads.
Role in this project:Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 56 reviews, 48 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily focused on developing and maintaining backend components for the kcp project, specifically related to the kcp-front-proxy. They implemented features for client certificate authentication and TLS termination, and refactored the proxy to use user information from the authenticator. Furthermore, the user demonstrated skills in setting up and configuring the front proxy, including logging options and authentication mechanisms. They also contributed to integrating metrics for request monitoring and performance analysis.
workloadsclusterskcpcontrol-planek8s
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