Summary
Jared Wilkerson is an Associate Manager at Red Hat with 11 years of experience blending DevOps, Agile, and quality engineering to build productive, engaged teams and reliable delivery pipelines. He progressed through hands-on roles at Red Hat from Senior and Principal Quality Engineer into management, bringing deep experience in CI/CD, automation, and server configuration from prior DevOps work at IBM. Jared has a strong background modernizing legacy systems and implementing automation at scale—authoring Chef cookbooks and migrating teams to modern CI systems—while mentoring new hires and shaping hiring processes. His early work includes re-architecting Ruby on Rails projects and organizing a regional Ruby conference focused on first-time attendees, signaling a long-standing commitment to developer communities. Based in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, he combines practical engineering skills with people leadership to translate complex technical needs into repeatable practices. Colleagues know him for turning operational pain points into teachable processes that raise team capability, not just tooling.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S; Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, German, B.S; Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, German at Lebanon Valley College
English, German