Gurney Buchanan
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGurney Buchanan is a Principal Software Engineer with a decade of experience specializing in DevOps, CI/CD, and developer enablement, currently leading efforts at Red Hat from Durham, NC. He has deep expertise in automating and productizing build and deployment pipelines across cloud and on-prem platforms, notably contributing deployment automation for Open Cluster Management on Red Hat OpenShift. Comfortable across Terraform, Python, Bash, Jenkins, Prow and container tooling, he pairs hands-on scripting with ownership of upstream CI and cloud account/cost management. Colleagues rely on him to turn novel OpenShift challenges into repeatable automation—an attribute traced back to early work migrating and testing OpenShift 4.x at IBM. He combines a methodical finish-what-you-start work ethic with mentorship experience from his graduate research and lab leadership roles.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Appalachian State University
English
Github Skills (12)
kubernetes10
bash10
deploying10
openshift10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
operator10
hybrid-cloud9
multicloud9
docker8
dockers8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
stolostron/deploy
May 2020 - May 2022
Deploy Development Builds of Open Cluster Management (OCM) on RedHat Openshift Container Platform
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 68 reviews, 52 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Gurney primarily contributed to the deployment and configuration aspects of the Open Cluster Management (OCM) project on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. Their work includes modifying deployment scripts (start.sh, uninstall.sh), adjusting pod counts, and adapting to different release versions (1.0, 2.0). They also focused on automating and improving deployment processes, including conditional logic based on downstream builds and the integration of community operator subscriptions. This is evidenced by their focus on modifying existing scripts and adding new configuration options.
cluster-managementopenshiftoperatorhybrid-cloudmulti-cloud
stolostron/build-harness-bootstrap
Feb 2020 - Dec 2022
A simple repo to bootstrap the build harness and build harness extensions.
Contributions:1 review, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
bootstrapextensionsharness
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