Jacob Tanenbaum
Software Engineer at Red Hat
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Tanenbaum is a software engineer with a decade of experience building and maintaining cloud-native networking components, currently contributing to OpenShift's networking and ovn-kubernetes plugins at Red Hat. He’s fluent in C, Go, and Python and has a strong systems background from dual BS degrees in Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering at WPI. His open-source work includes extending OpenShift APIs to support multiple CIDRs and configurable VXLAN ports, optimizing goroutine usage, and adding Prometheus metrics—practical changes that improve scalability and observability for large clusters. Previously he worked on Linux kernel fixes and hardware verification, giving him a rare blend of low-level systems insight and distributed platform engineering. Based in Boston, he focuses on reliable, maintainable solutions that reduce operational overhead in production Kubernetes networks.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (28)
network-configuration10
kubernetes10
apidoc10
routers10
router10
route-config10
networking10
cicd10
go10
openshift10
api10
kubernetes-pods10
devops10
container9
kubernetes-networking9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ovn-kubernetes/ovn-kubernetes
Aug 2018 - Jan 2023
A robust Kubernetes networking platform
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:492 reviews, 115 commits, 166 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jacob made multiple commits related to the removal of unnecessary goroutines from policy watches, indicating an effort to optimize the application's performance and reduce overhead. They implemented multiple CIDR and configurable hostsubnetlength support for the ovn-kubernetes plugin, restoring the ability to use the previous command-line format and adding checks for overlapping CIDR addresses. The commits also included code for refactoring, and the addition of Prometheus endpoints to the OVN Kubernetes deployment, showing expertise in both backend development and DevOps practices.
k8skubernetesovncnicni-plugin
openshift/cluster-network-operator
Feb 2019 - Oct 2022
Create and manage cluster networking configuration
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:22 reviews, 52 commits, 91 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to the cluster-network-operator, enhancing its capabilities and ensuring its compatibility with newer versions of OpenShift. They implemented features such as the ability to ignore creation errors for specific objects and configure Prometheus metrics for openshift-sdn. Furthermore, the user worked on integrating hybrid windows/linux clusters and addressed critical bugs related to resource versioning and various vendor upgrades.
networkingsdnoperatorkubernetescluster
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