Davis Phillips
Senior Principal Engineer at Red Hat
Round Rock, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavis Phillips is a Senior Principal Engineer with 10 years of hands-on experience designing and automating cloud and virtualization platforms from Round Rock, Texas. At Red Hat he architects OpenShift and VMware integrations, authors reference architectures, and converts legacy platforms into containerized deployments. A prolific open-source contributor, he has made impactful backend and DevOps contributions to widely used projects like ansible/ansible and openshift-ansible, adding VMware guest customization, vDS support, and dynamic inventory generation. His expertise spans Linux/Unix and Windows advanced administration, performance benchmarking, and server/storage/network hardware, paired with strong scripting and documentation skills. Collected business and technical training from UT Austin informs his ability to translate complex infrastructure requirements into reproducible code and operational playbooks.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Management Information Systems and Services, Bachelor’s Degree, Management Information Systems and Services at The University of Texas at Austin - The Red McCombs School of BusinessAssociate’s Degree, Business Administration and Management, General, Associate’s Degree, Business Administration and Management, General at Austin Community College
Github Skills (29)
vsphere10
python10
cloud-infrastructure10
vmware10
vmware-workstation10
vmware-tools10
automation10
infrastructure10
openshift10
api10
yaml10
ansible10
infrastructure-as-code10
ansible-galaxy10
automations10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/openshift-ansible-contrib
Oct 2016 - May 2019
Additional roles and playbooks for OpenShift installation and management
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:249 commits, 126 PRs, 116 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Davis's contributions primarily revolve around the development and maintenance of VMware playbooks and supporting infrastructure for OpenShift installation and management. They made significant changes to the `vsphere_guest.py` module, indicating a strong focus on managing virtual machines within a vSphere environment. Additionally, the user implemented dynamic inventory generation and made modifications to various playbooks and configuration files related to OpenShift, suggesting expertise in both backend and DevOps practices.
ansibleopenshift-installationinstallationopenshiftadditional
openshift/openshift-ansible
Oct 2016 - Nov 2018
Install and config an OpenShift 3.x cluster
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:190 commits, 13 PRs, 22 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Davis primarily contributed to infrastructure and configuration management for OpenShift, with a focus on Ansible. They made updates to deployment templates, particularly for cloud provider integrations like vSphere, including adding configuration files and modifying persistent volume settings. Further contributions involved modifying Ansible roles to manage the OpenShift cluster's networking and storage, demonstrating proficiency in automating deployments and managing configurations.
ansibleopenshiftk8skubernetesconfig
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