David Hageman
Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Red Hat
Lawrence, Kansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Hageman is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer with 15 years of experience designing and operating resilient cloud and on-premises infrastructure, currently leading a squad at Red Hat supporting the Ansible Automation Platform across public clouds. He combines hands-on engineering—developing Kubernetes operators and platform offerings—with cost-conscious operational improvements, previously cutting cloud costs by over 50% while architecting Azure management systems. Earlier roles at the University of Kansas show deep experience in enterprise architecture, disaster recovery, and large-scale network and datacenter transformations, as well as a background in software development and ISP operations. David is skilled at translating stakeholder needs into pragmatic, automatable solutions that improve reliability, security, and observability. Based in Lawrence, Kansas, he brings a pragmatic, systems-thinking approach informed by both academic and commercial environments. A detail that often surprises colleagues: he has delivered six-figure savings through in-house tooling and pragmatic migrations long before joining large cloud-native projects.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of Kansas
Github Skills (23)
ansible-awx10
kubernetes-operator10
operator-sdk10
kubernetes9
openshift9
operator9
azure8
ansible8
django-apps7
galaxy6
angularjs5
event-driven5
command-line-interface5
yeoman-generator5
collections3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dhageman/awx-operator
Jan 2023 - Jan 2025
An Ansible AWX operator for Kubernetes built with Operator SDK and Ansible. 🤖
Contributions:77 pushes, 20 branches in 2 years
awx-ansibleoperator-sdkansibleoperatorsdk
dhageman/receptor
Mar 2023 - Jul 2025
Project Receptor is a flexible multi-service relayer with remote execution and orchestration capabilities linking controllers with executors across a mesh of nodes.
Contributions:6 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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