Frank Zdarsky
Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat
Greater Karlsruhe Area Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolFrank Zdarsky is a Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat with 11 years of professional experience focused on edge computing, NFV/SDN and cloud-native infrastructure. He has driven strategy and architecture across multiple senior technical roles in Karlsruhe, blending hands-on backend and DevOps work with technology leadership. Notably, he contributed the configuration framework and refactored infrastructure components for the edge-optimized OpenShift project MicroShift, improving flexibility and deployment hygiene. His background spans industrial research and R&D management at NEC Labs and academic research culminating in a Dr.-Ing. in Computer Science, reflecting a strong mix of theory and applied systems engineering. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex networking and platform requirements into maintainable, production-ready architectures. He is based in the Greater Karlsruhe area and brings a pragmatic, infrastructure-first mindset to large-scale open-source platforms.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Technischen Universität DarmstadtHölty Gymnasium WunstorfDr.-Ing. Computer Science, Dr.-Ing. Computer Science at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
Github Skills (9)
configuration-management10
kubernetes10
go10
openshift10
devops10
kubernetes-pods10
build-automation9
container9
edge-computing7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/microshift
May 2021 - Dec 2022
A small form factor OpenShift/Kubernetes optimized for edge computing
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:205 reviews, 140 commits, 110 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Frank primarily contributed to the configuration framework and refactoring the infrastructure components, showing a focus on architectural improvements within the microshift project. They developed the configuration framework and integrated it across the codebase, enhancing the project's flexibility. Furthermore, the user was responsible for migrating OpenShift manifests and optimizing the configuration of build files. This suggests a blend of backend engineering to incorporate the framework and DevOps to maintain infrastructure deployment.
containersedge-computingfactoropenshiftedge
fzdarsky/microshift
May 2022 - Feb 2023
A small form factor OpenShift/Kubernetes optimized for edge computing
Contributions:2 PRs, 150 pushes, 92 branches in 8 months
edge-computingfactoropenshiftedgekubernetes
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