David Critch
Principal Systems Engineer at Red Hat
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Critch is a Principal Systems Engineer with 12 years of experience architecting enterprise-ready DevOps and cloud platforms at Red Hat, specializing in OpenStack, OpenShift/Kubernetes, Docker, and Ansible. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, he has progressed from platform and consulting roles into partner-facing and principal engineering positions, guiding integrations and production deployments for large customers and partners. His background in UNIX system administration and automation (shell, Perl, Python) underpins a practical approach to resilient, scalable infrastructure and incident escalation. David is especially skilled at translating complex platform requirements into repeatable, automated architectures that bridge vendor solutions and customer operations. He combines a strong mathematical foundation (B.Sc. in Pure Math and Economics) with hands-on delivery of data-center and cloud projects, including experience with large-scale systems like enterprise revision control and Exadata-based data warehouses.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B. Sc Pure Math Economics, B. Sc Pure Math Economics at Memorial University, Newfoundland and Labrador
Github Skills (72)
python10
vms10
k8s10
ssh10
commons10
user-guide10
api10
virtualization10
ansible10
libvirt10
kubernetes10
openshift10
documentation10
health10
automation9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
RHsyseng/openshift-checks
Feb 2021 - Nov 2022
A collection of scripts to check the health of an OpenShift cluster
Contributions:29 reviews, 94 commits, 68 PRs in 1 year 10 months
healthopenshiftopenshift-checkskubernetescluster
RHsyseng/hpe-discover-2017
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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