Edgar Hernández
México, Mexico
Summary
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RockstarEdgar García is a Senior Software Engineer based in Mérida, Mexico, with nine years of experience building and hardening back-end and DevOps systems at Red Hat. He contributes actively to prominent open-source projects—improving ManageIQ’s middleware diagnostics and topology views, strengthening KServe’s CI and security posture, and enhancing Kiali’s UI for Istio observability—showing fluency across backend, testing infrastructure, and front-end UX. Edgar combines production-focused engineering with a research background (MSc in Intelligent Systems), which surfaces in thoughtful refactors like Hawkular provider integration and test improvements for Istio CNI compatibility. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex distributed-system problems into maintainable code and better developer tooling.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (39)
service-mesh10
ruby-rails10
kubernetes10
middleware10
back-end-development10
typescript10
rails10
cicd10
ruby10
uid10
manageiq10
go10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
kubernetes-pods10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
kiali/kiali
Feb 2018 - Jan 2023
Kiali project, observability for the Istio service mesh
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 400 reviews, 595 commits in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Edgar made multiple contributions to the Kiali UI, focusing on the Service Graph page. They implemented features to improve the user experience, such as enabling arrows in the service graph, adding a namespace selector, and adding a side panel to show service details. They also worked on adding and displaying data in the side panel and implemented a control to be able to change the graph type. Their work involved modifying UI components, including the CytoscapeGraph and creating and integrating new React components.
meshkialiobservabilityopenshiftistio
kserve/kserve
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
Standardized Serverless ML Inference Platform on Kubernetes
Role in this project:DevOps & Backend Engineer
DevOps & Backend EngineerContributions:92 reviews, 15 PRs, 179 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Edgar primarily contributed to the KServe project by addressing infrastructure and backend-related issues. They updated dependencies, including Go modules, to mitigate security vulnerabilities. Furthermore, they modified code related to command-line argument sanitization within the agent component, enhancing security. The user also introduced features for testing, specifically focusing on compatibility with Istio CNI plugins and reducing dependencies on the CI environment, improving overall testing infrastructure.
xgboostsklearnserverlessclient-goknative
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