Elijah DeLee
Associate Manager
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElijah DeLee is an Associate Manager and experienced software engineer with nine years of hands-on expertise in performance optimization, DevOps, and scale engineering, currently leading teams at Red Hat in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area. He combines backend engineering and automation skills with practical QA and test automation experience, having improved reliability and containerized test workflows for prominent open-source projects like Ansible Runner and AWX. Elijah is adept at bridging development and operations—implementing CI/CD, refining logging and build processes, and contributing API and workflow features that support production-scale automation. Notably, he has deep experience making tests xdist-compatible and robust in shared/container environments, a detail that reflects his emphasis on maintainable, high-speed test infrastructure. Trained at UNC Chapel Hill with a BASc, he pairs managerial leadership with continued technical contribution to influential automation platforms.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
English, Spanish
Github Skills (21)
pytest10
python10
testing10
automation10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
automations10
devops10
test-automation10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
dockers9
cicd9
django9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible-runner
Jun 2020 - Feb 2022
A tool and python library that helps when interfacing with Ansible directly or as part of another system whether that be through a container image interface, as a standalone tool, or as a Python module that can be imported. The goal is to provide a stable and consistent interface abstraction to Ansible.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 15 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Elijah primarily focused on enhancing the testing infrastructure of the Ansible Runner project. They made significant changes to existing test files, including `test_display_callback.py`, `test_main.py`, and `test_events.py`, to improve their reliability and compatibility. The contributions included modifications to ensure tests could run with xdist for speed improvements and addressing issues related to shared directories. Additionally, they implemented and refined tests related to containerized environments, ensuring thorough testing across various deployment scenarios.
python-librarypythongoalansibledocker
ansible/awx
Nov 2018 - Jan 2023
AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. It is one of the upstream projects for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:281 reviews, 187 commits, 144 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Elijah primarily contributed to the Ansible AWX project, focusing on backend and DevOps related tasks. Their work includes modifying Python code, specifically within test and API generation files, and adding new functionality to the awxkit project. They also addressed issues related to containerization, logging, and the build process, demonstrating DevOps skills. Additionally, they made code changes to support workflow approvals and subscriptions.
pythondjangored-hathatupstream
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