Jennifer Power
Principal Product Security Engineer at Red Hat
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJennifer Power is a Principal Product Security Engineer at Red Hat with six years of focused experience securing cloud-native products and operator ecosystems. She progressed rapidly through technical and architect roles—moving from solutions architecture into senior and principal product security positions—bringing deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes/OpenShift operator tooling. Her open-source contributions to the operator-framework/operator-registry highlight pragmatic backend work: fixing registry diff logic, pruning empty channels, integrating Podman auth, and modernizing TLS and dependency handling for declarative operator indexes. Known for translating complex security requirements into dependable, auditable product features, she blends systems engineering rigor with a developer-first approach. A strong academic performer in computer science, she pairs practical government and enterprise experience with a track record of shipping improvements that reduce operator risk in production.
5 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.89, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.89 at Old Dominion UniversityAssociate's degree, Engineering, 3.65, Associate's degree, Engineering, 3.65 at Tidewater Community College
Github Skills (9)
kubernetes10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
grpc9
kubernetes-operator9
docker8
dockers8
cicd7
api-design6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
operator-framework/operator-registry
Dec 2021 - May 2022
Operator Registry runs in a Kubernetes or OpenShift cluster to provide operator catalog data to Operator Lifecycle Manager.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 6 commits, 6 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Jennifer primarily contributed to the operator-registry repository by implementing bug fixes and enhancing existing features related to the operator registry's functionality. They addressed issues in the `diff` and `registry` components, specifically focusing on pruning empty channels, integrating Podman authentication, and deprecating/replacing TLS-related flags. Furthermore, the user updated dependency versions and added improvements to the dependency management for the project. Their changes touched upon core logic for declarative configuration and index management.
lifecycleoperator-lifecycle-managergrpcopenshiftoperator
RedHatProductSecurity/trestle-demo
Feb 2023 - Jun 2024
Contributions:1 release, 44 reviews, 57 PRs in 1 year 4 months
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