Jaime Melis
Senior Principal SRE at Red Hat
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Belgium
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RockstarJaime Melis is a Senior Principal SRE with 16 years of experience building and operating large-scale SaaS on OpenShift and Kubernetes, currently shaping SRE services architecture at Red Hat. He leads with a GitOps-first mindset and daily hands-on expertise in OpenShift, Prometheus, Python, Go, GraphQL and React to deliver reliable, automated cloud platforms. Jaime’s background includes co-founding and engineering for OpenNebula, contributing virtualization and VM context tooling, and automating image/catalog pipelines for the widely used openshift/hive project. He combines team leadership and deep operational pragmatism, running high-profile Red Hat SaaS like quay.io and OpenShift Dedicated. Based in Madrid with Belgian ties, he pairs startup founder grit with enterprise-scale SRE practices and a track record of shipping reproducible, CI-driven platform automation.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
French, Spanish, English
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Github Skills (30)
git10
kubernetes10
docker10
cloud-computing10
scripting10
bash10
image-store10
containerization10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
script10
openshift10
virtualization10
kubernetes-pods10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
OpenNebula/one
Sep 2009 - Jan 2018
The open source Cloud & Edge Computing Platform bringing real freedom to your Enterprise Cloud 🚀
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:362 commits, 32 PRs, 261 pushes in 8 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Jaime's contributions primarily revolve around the OpenNebula cloud platform, with a focus on scripts for virtual machine context customization. They implemented support for various operating systems like Ubuntu, CentOS, openSUSE, and Debian by developing scripts for configuring network settings, generating hostnames, and setting up user accounts. The user demonstrated a solid understanding of shell scripting, virtualization concepts, and system administration tasks related to cloud environments. They have also modified existing installation scripts.
gcpvirtualizationvdiedge-computingvms
openshift/hive
Mar 2019 - May 2020
API driven OpenShift cluster provisioning and management
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:27 commits, 23 PRs, 31 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Jaime primarily focused on automating the build, deployment, and image catalog creation processes for the `hive` project. They developed and modified scripts (`build_deploy.sh`, `app_sre_create_image_catalog.sh`, and related files) to build Docker images, push them to a container registry, and generate and push operator bundles. They also integrated the project with AppSRE's CI/CD tools, utilizing Git for version control and automating the creation of image catalogs for both staging and production environments.
apiprovisioningopenshiftkubernetescluster
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