Dennis Periquet
Associate Manager, Engineering For Automated Release Tooling (ART) Team
Exeter, New Hampshire, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDennis Periquet is a seasoned engineering leader specializing in release automation, CI/CD, and cloud-native infrastructure with a career spanning networking, virtualization, and Kubernetes-driven delivery. Currently managing Red Hat’s multi-region Automated Release Tooling (ART) team, he combines hands-on engineering (Python, Go, Ansible) with program-level ownership of OpenShift release predictability and cross-group coordination. He has deep SRE and test-automation roots from roles at IBM and Juniper where he built virtualized testbeds, invented the NetPST protocol simulator, and pioneered Kubernetes-periodic systems for continuous testing. An active contributor to OpenShift projects (openshift/origin, ci-tools, release), he’s improved conformance tests and CI data tooling to harden image pulls, job aggregation, and e2e release pipelines. Known for scaling teams and systems, he emphasizes distributed expertise, AI-assisted workflows, and resilient handoffs so releases don’t depend on a few experts. Based in Exeter, NH, he blends low-level networking insight with modern cloud-native practices to make complex release flows predictable and observable.
4 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Finance, MBA, Finance at Southern New Hampshire UniversityBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Github Skills (26)
kubernetes10
container10
bigquery10
continuous-integration10
testing10
bash10
cicd10
automation10
go10
openshift10
automation-testing10
kubernetes-pods10
automations10
devops10
test-automation10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/ci-tools
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
DPTP Tooling
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:45 reviews, 11 commits, 30 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Dennis primarily contributed to the CI/CD tools and aggregation of job runs. They implemented a subcommand to create tables, added functionality to create JobRuns and TestRuns tables within a bigquery data set. They also modified the existing job aggregation tools by adding commands to create tables, skip specific tests, and show disruption allowance updates. These changes indicate a focus on improving data analysis and reporting within the CI/CD pipeline.
continuous-testingopenshifttoolingcontinuous-integration
openshift/origin
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
Conformance test suite for OpenShift
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:135 reviews, 42 commits, 112 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Dennis primarily contributed to the conformance test suite for OpenShift, focusing on improving the reliability of image pulls from the registry.redhat.io, including identifying and mitigating potential back-off issues. They added tests to identify and flag excessive image pull back-offs and container restart failures and created a test for startup probes. Additionally, the user improved the codebase through refactoring and enhanced the monitoring of system events within the OpenShift environment, also adding monitoring of azure cloud functionality.
containerscontinuous-deploymentcaaspaascontinuous-testing
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