David Taylor
Staff Solutions Architect at Red Hat
Powder Springs, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Taylor is a Staff Solutions Architect with a decade of hands-on engineering and customer advocacy, currently helping enterprise clients adopt and scale Red Hat and OpenShift solutions. He blends full-stack development experience—from low-level networking and datacenter automation to React UI work—with a sales-engineer track record that grew a major account from $500k to $100M ARR and contributed over $250M in revenue. An active open-source contributor, he’s implemented UI components and TypeScript migrations in prominent projects like PatternFly and the OpenShift console, improving UX for large-scale Kubernetes platforms. Technical depth spans automation (Ansible, Puppet, Chef), hybrid cloud and OpenStack/OpenShift operations, and custom integrations such as DNSaaS and cloud-burst orchestration. He pairs pragmatic systems thinking with a strong customer-first mentality and a knack for turning operational pain points into repeatable Infrastructure-as-Code solutions. Outside of product work he’s volunteered as a digital archivist for The Carter Center, a detail that reflects his appreciation for mission-driven projects and meticulous process.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Psychology, Bachelor, Psychology at Morehouse CollegeWalther Lutheran
Github Skills (26)
dependency-management10
javascript10
react-components10
ui-components10
charts10
css10
typescript10
ui-design10
react-component10
uid10
openshift10
front-end-development10
angularjs10
typescript-types10
html10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/console
Apr 2018 - Jan 2022
OpenShift Cluster Console UI
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:652 reviews, 230 commits, 229 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:David focused on implementing new UI features, specifically for the Routes and TLS settings pages. The contributions included creating React components, such as `RouteHostname` and `TLSSettings`, to render information and provide interactive elements like links and copy-to-clipboard functionality. Further work involved the conversion of existing route components to TypeScript, the addition of a status filter to the routes list page, and the addition of traffic splitting charts. The user also made a number of other UI enhancements, including the addition of the correct information for the 'Custom Route' help popover.
consoleopenshiftk8skubernetescluster
openshift/origin-web-console
Feb 2017 - Mar 2018
Web Console for the OpenShift Application Platform
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 20 PRs, 204 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:David contributed to the web console for the OpenShift Application Platform by updating dependencies, particularly Angular and PatternFly, and resolving related resolution issues. They addressed errors in orderBy calls related to hashes, ensuring compatibility with newer Angular versions. Additional contributions included the implementation of an app launcher and modifications to the wizard steps and placeholder elements, with several dependency version bumps, and fixing quota notifications.
consoleopenshiftapplication-platformopenshift-applicationweb-console
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