Jhon Honce
Manager, Software Engineering at Red Hat
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Summary
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RockstarJhon Honce is a seasoned software engineering manager and architect with 14+ years of experience building scalable, cloud-native systems and leading productive technical teams at Red Hat. He blends deep systems expertise—from UNIX and TCP/IP networking to distributed architectures—with hands-on skills in Java, Scala, Python, C/C++, ElasticSearch, and container ecosystems. His open-source contributions to prominent projects like OpenShift and Podman highlight practical DevOps and CI/CD improvements, test reliability work, and container runtime feature development. Known for designing high-performance, horizontally scalable SaaS/Rain architectures and innovative indexing approaches, he excels at turning business rules into efficient implementations. Based in Phoenix, he combines long-tenured enterprise experience (including NASA and Intel) with a pragmatic, test-driven engineering mindset that values automation and operational reliability.
14 years of coding experience
36 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (28)
unit-testing10
docker10
apidoc10
testing10
configuration-management10
test-framework10
bash10
dockers10
gcp10
automation10
script10
go10
openshift10
api10
ansible10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
podman-container-tools/podman
Sep 2019 - May 2022
Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:253 reviews, 86 commits, 289 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jhon primarily contributed to the development and testing of Podman's core functionality, focusing on enhancing container management features. Their work included implementing options and creating tests for the `--cgroup-parent` option, which controls a container's cgroup hierarchy. They also refactored the unit test framework and added tests for the varlink component, indicating experience with the project's internal workings and testing methodologies. Furthermore, they refactored the codebase to support API compatibility.
oci-containerpodmancontainersdockerkubernetes
containers/common
Jun 2020 - Nov 2021
Location for shared common files in github.com/containers repos.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 14 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Jhon primarily contributed to the `containers/common` repository by modifying configuration files and template code related to remote service destinations and identity management. They implemented features to support multiple service destinations, allowing for more flexible container connections. Furthermore, the user added functionality related to identity key files for remote connections and refactored reporting functions for the project.
common-filesbuildahcontainerspodmanskopeo
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