Don Zickus
CI Architect For RHEL Kernel (Distinguished Engineer) at Red Hat
Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDon Zickus is a Distinguished Engineer and CI Architect who has spent 26 years driving kernel release scalability and automation at Red Hat, reducing developer feedback loops from weeks to minutes and slashing maintainer workloads by an order of magnitude. He blends strategic business alignment with deep technical craftsmanship—rearchitecting kernel workflows, bootstrapping CI kernel services like the Always Ready Kernel (ARK), and helping shape CentOS Stream contributions. A hands-on mentor, he has scaled partner onboarding and built user-experience service teams that turned operational improvements into measurable product advantages. His open-source automation work includes enhancing the autotest framework with client-side command parsing and remote test retrieval, reflecting a focus on practical testability and reproducible CI. Based in Marlborough, MA, he pairs systems-level kernel expertise with a talent for organizational change, consistently translating complex engineering problems into streamlined, automated delivery pipelines.
26 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Computer Engineering, BE, Computer Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology
Github Skills (9)
linux10
python10
testing10
cli9
command-line9
automation9
automations9
command-line-interface9
git9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
autotest/autotest
Dec 2011 - Apr 2013
Autotest - Fully automated tests on Linux
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Automation Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:12 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Don primarily focused on enhancing the autotest framework by introducing a `CommandParser` class for client-side command handling. This involved adding new commands such as `fetch` and `bootstrap` to improve test management and remote test retrieval. The changes included code modifications to facilitate automated testing, integrating remote test fetching capabilities, and modifying existing functionalities to integrate with the new features.
pythontest-automationtestinglinuxautomated-tests
dzickusrh/atomic-reactor
Jun 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:83 pushes, 15 branches in 2 months
python-librarypythondocker-imagedockerpython3
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