Harald Jensås
Software Engineer at Red Hat
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
🤩
RockstarHarald Jensås is a seasoned software engineer with over 11 years delivering infrastructure solutions and deployments, currently shaping cloud and engineering outcomes at Red Hat. He blends deep hands-on expertise in Linux, VMware, SAN storage and networking with a passion for open source, contributing meaningful improvements to high-profile OpenStack projects like Heat and Neutron. Known for methodical, reliable delivery and cross-border collaboration, he has improved test reliability, network automation and DHCP/routing behaviors in production-grade orchestration code. Harald enjoys exploring emerging technologies and often focuses on pragmatic refactors that reduce external calls and harden networking components—work that quietly raises system stability for large-scale cloud deployments.
11 years of coding experience
English, Swedish, Norwegian
Github Skills (27)
unit-testing10
network-configuration10
python10
testing10
test-framework10
n10
networking10
heat10
temp10
openstack10
openstack-neutron10
ansible10
dhcp10
ansible-galaxy10
devops10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
openstack-archive/tripleo-heat-templates
Nov 2016 - Dec 2022
Heat templates for deploying OpenStack
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:344 commits in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Harald's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the infrastructure and automation aspects of the OpenStack Heat templates project. They made several changes to improve deployment and upgrade processes, specifically related to the undercloud. These changes included refactoring the post-deployment scripts, improving network configuration for routed networks, and addressing issues to ensure the system's stability. Additionally, the user worked on incorporating new network features and validating network deployments.
deployingheatopenshiftopenstack
openstack/heat
Jun 2017 - Feb 2021
OpenStack Orchestration (Heat). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Harald primarily worked on refactoring and improving unit tests, particularly for server network functionality. Their contributions involved consolidating unit test implementations, optimizing code for improved matching, and reducing external calls. They also addressed issues related to network updates and interface port matching. These changes suggest a focus on enhancing the reliability and efficiency of the OpenStack Heat service's server networking components.
opendevheatopenstackorchestration
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.