Eris Hoxha
Senior Software Engineer - OpenShift at Red Hat
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolEris Hoxha is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in OpenShift release automation, with five years of professional experience across telecom and IT roles. Based in Heidelberg, he brings a strong foundation in networking (Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto), Windows and Linux server administration, and scripting in PowerShell, Bash and Python. At Red Hat he has driven continuous release work for OpenShift, contributing practical DevOps-driven features like Jira integration, alerting, and deployment configuration changes to the widely used openshift/release and kubernetes/test-infra projects. His background in core network engineering and server solutions gives him a systems-minded perspective that helps bridge infrastructure, QA and release engineering. He holds an M.Sc. in Electronics Engineering and is comfortable moving between low-level network design and high-level automation for reliable production delivery. A detail-oriented contributor, he has improved testing and fake-client tooling for Jira workflows—an often overlooked but impactful area for release reliability.
5 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Electronics Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Electronics Engineering at Universiteti Politeknik i Tiranës
English, Italian, German, Spanish, Albanian
Github Skills (22)
kubernetes10
jira-integration10
jira10
testing10
jira-rest-api10
cicd10
release-management10
automation10
go10
openshift10
api10
kubernetes-pods10
automations10
alerts9
monitoring9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/release
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022
Release tooling for OpenShift
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:64 reviews, 21 commits, 42 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Eris focused on enhancing the release-controller functionality within the OpenShift release tooling. Their contributions involved adding and configuring Jira integration features, including CLI parameters, API token mounts, and alerting mechanisms for error monitoring. They also made changes to deployment configurations and resource definitions to support these new features. Furthermore, the user renamed a Slack channel associated with release-controller.
continuous-deploymentkubernetesopenshifttooling
kubernetes/test-infra
May 2022 - Jul 2022
Test infrastructure for the Kubernetes project.
Role in this project:Backend Developer & QA Engineer
Backend Developer & QA EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 6 commits, 5 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Eris primarily contributed to the `prow/jira` package within the Kubernetes test-infra repository. Their work focused on implementing methods for interacting with Jira, including a fake client for testing. They added functionality for fetching Jira custom fields like QA Contact and target release versions and enhanced the existing testing suite. The user also addressed bugs and improved existing unit tests based on review feedback.
test-infrastructuretestinginfrastructurek8s-sig-testingkubernetes
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