Fabiano Franz
Principal Software Engineer, InstructLab AI at Red Hat
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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Top SchoolFabiano Franz is a Principal Software Engineer and engineering leader with 14+ years driving OpenShift and Kubernetes ecosystem work, now focused on agentic AI and data processing at InstructLab AI within Red Hat. A longtime Go developer and former Java/Ruby engineer, he founded Kubernetes SIG-CLI and has been a core contributor to OpenShift since 2011, shaping CLI, installer, and web console tooling that power cloud-native deployments. He blends hands-on backend and full-stack craft with people-first management—scaling teams remotely since 2011 and serving as a Scrum Master and frequent conference speaker. Notably, his contributions to widely used projects like cobra and OpenShift demonstrate deep expertise in CLI ergonomics and installer/credential tooling, often favoring pragmatic resource-efficient implementations.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Web Design and Programming, Bachelor of Science (BS) Web Design and Programming at Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (42)
kubernetes10
javascript10
activeresource10
webconsole10
command-line-interface10
rails10
cicd10
ruby10
go10
openshift10
kubernetes-pods10
command-line10
golang10
html10
cobra10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/installer
Nov 2019 - Jun 2020
Install an OpenShift 4.x cluster
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 36 commits, 22 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Fabiano primarily contributed to the OpenShift installer project by updating dependencies, specifically focusing on the `github.com/gophercloud/utils` library. They also made changes related to logging credentials for various cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, and OpenStack). Further commits focused on optimizing and streamlining the credential loading process.
gcpvmsansiblelibvirtopenshift
openshift/origin
Nov 2014 - Dec 2017
Conformance test suite for OpenShift
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:291 commits, 213 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Fabiano's contributions primarily focused on refactoring and modifying the underlying source code of the project. This included upgrading external dependencies for the codebase, as well as fixing potential issues in the project related to missing references. They were involved in restructuring the CLI, adding testing for a basic test suite. The user was responsible for contributing with the tooling around the deployment.
containerscontinuous-deploymentcaaspaascontinuous-testing
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