Harrison Ripps
Chief Of Staff, Office Of The CTO at Red Hat
Malmo, Sweden
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Top SchoolHarrison Ripps is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience scaling cloud-native teams and products, currently serving as Chief of Staff in the Office of the CTO at Red Hat. He has a strong track record bootstrapping and integrating distributed engineering orgs, guiding OpenShift and Kubernetes-related efforts from code to commercial release cadence. Harrison blends hands-on engineering (notably improving test coverage and backend robustness in notable OpenShift repositories) with org-level program management and tooling to centralize workstreams. He’s skilled at evolving legacy systems into cloud-native platforms across AWS, GCE, and OpenStack using containers and Kubernetes, while also incubating new initiatives. Based in Malmö, he pairs technical authorship (creator of AsciiBinder) with people development, cultivating early-career talent through co-op and internship programs.
13 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Wooster SchoolDanbury High SchoolB.S. Technical Scientific and Professional Communication Computer Science English, B.S. Technical Scientific and Professional Communication Computer Science English at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (13)
testing10
rspec10
api-rest10
rest-api10
openshift10
simplecov10
api-design10
restful-api10
test-automation10
ruby10
activeresource9
formtastic8
jruby8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/origin-server
Jul 2012 - Sep 2015
OpenShift 2 (deprecated)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:168 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Harrison contributed to the OpenShift 2 server codebase, focusing on improving the building controller's error handling and cartridge management. They refactored the REST API base class, added form validation for user account data, and addressed authentication concerns related to cartridge types and application templates. The commits also include updates to the application template and quickstart functionality.
kubernetesopenshift
openshift/rhc
Jun 2012 - Mar 2014
OpenShift 2 Client Tools (deprecated)
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:23 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Harrison primarily focused on improving the test coverage and reliability of the `openshift/rhc` repository, a deprecated client tool for OpenShift. Their work included the separation of SimpleCov output for spec tests and the addition of rspec coverage for Rhc::Rest and Rhc::Rest::Client. Furthermore, the user addressed a bug in the setup wizard, and fixed server errors, demonstrating a commitment to enhancing the robustness of the testing infrastructure.
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