Jeff Vance
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Vance is a Principal Software Engineer in Red Hat’s Office of the CTO with decades of experience building and leading engineering efforts across cloud-native, storage, and web application domains. He combines deep systems expertise—Hadoop, GlusterFS, Ceph, kubevirt and Kubernetes—with hands-on full-stack development in Ruby, Go, Python, and JavaScript, and has contributed practical improvements to high-profile open-source projects like Cockpit and the kubevirt containerized-data-importer. A former senior manager at a Rails-focused SMB and a long-tenured HP OS architect, he blends customer-focused usability engineering with technical leadership of distributed teams. Known for pragmatic refactoring, test-driven enhancements, and improving interoperability (for example S3 integration and Kubernetes REST handling), he excels at translating complex infrastructure needs into maintainable code and reliable interfaces. Based in Mountain View, he pairs mathematical training with a rare breadth from low-level C and OS work to modern cloud-native ecosystems.
12 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
BA Ag Economics + mathematics, BA Ag Economics + mathematics at University of California, Davis
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Github Skills (15)
aws-s310
kubernetes10
javascript10
minio10
go10
amazon-s310
kubernetes-pods10
s3-bucket10
error-handling9
html8
containerization8
server7
linux7
dockers5
docker5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
kubevirt/containerized-data-importer
Jan 2018 - Sep 2018
Data Import Service for kubernetes, designed with kubevirt in mind.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:202 commits, 191 PRs, 179 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Jeff's commits primarily focus on developing features for the containerized-data-importer, with an emphasis on integration with S3. They implemented changes related to handling S3 object retrieval using the minio-go client, including modifications to environmental variable parsing and error handling. Additionally, the user introduced semantic checking for environmental variables and refactored the code to improve readability and maintainability.
kubevirtvmskubernetesminddata-import
cockpit-project/cockpit
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 1 branch in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jeff contributed to the `cockpit-project/cockpit` repository by modifying the Kubernetes integration within the web interface. Their work included escaping Kubernetes REST URIs, adding tests for services, and enhancing the display of pod container information. Additionally, they removed console logging statements used for debugging, improving the code's readability and performance. These contributions indicate an understanding of the project's front-end and back-end components.
web-appgraphical-interfacejavascriptweb-basedgraphical
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