Dave Baker
Principal OpenShift Product Security Engineer at Red Hat
Greater Southampton Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDave Baker is a Principal OpenShift Product Security Engineer at Red Hat with nine years focused on security and robust, highly available system design. He brings deep operational and containerization expertise, having hardened OpenShift tooling—implementing CONNECT proxy protections, bastion host access controls, and automated AWS SAML certificate retrieval. Dave pairs hands-on DevOps security work with a discipline for clear, practical documentation that keeps complex systems auditable and maintainable. His background spans infrastructure and systems engineering roles across finance and enterprise, giving him a pragmatic perspective on risk and reliability. Based in the Greater Southampton Area, he contributes to widely used open-source OpenShift ops scripts, quietly improving core operational security for large-scale deployments. Colleagues rely on him to translate thorny security requirements into resilient, production-ready controls.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
University of Reading
Github Skills (12)
security10
ansible-galaxy10
bash10
docker10
dockers10
ansible10
aws9
containerization9
openshift8
system-administration8
python7
xml5
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/openshift-tools
Jun 2017 - Jan 2019
A public repository of scripts used by OpenShift Operations for various purposes
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Security Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Security EngineerContributions:55 commits, 51 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Dave primarily focused on enhancing the security and operational aspects of the OpenShift tools repository. Their contributions included implementing security measures for accessing services via a CONNECT proxy, specifically restricting access to bastion hosts. Furthermore, the user updated and automated the retrieval of AWS SAML certificates and configured the container environment for host monitoring, demonstrating expertise in infrastructure and containerization. They also made improvements to the system, including handling data structure changes to incidents.
openshift
dbaker-rh/container-diags
Mar 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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