Joan Navarro
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolJoan Navarro is a Senior Software Engineer based in Barcelona with 10 years of experience bridging research-grade computational physics and production cloud-native systems. After a PhD and postdoc at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Joan transitioned into engineering roles at Red Hat where they progressed from associate to senior engineer, contributing to CI/CD and testing automation for high-profile OpenShift release tooling. They have hands-on DevOps experience adding and configuring Kuttl tests, automating artifact and log collection, and improving end-to-end test reliability for a widely used OpenShift repo. Joan combines deep scientific modeling skills from computational physics and bioinformatics with practical expertise in building robust testing pipelines and observability for distributed systems. Known for turning complex, research-derived problems into reproducible, production-ready workflows, they excel at improving test automation and developer feedback loops. Based in Barcelona, Joan brings a methodical, data-driven approach to engineering that surfaces subtle failure modes before they reach production.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Bioinformatics, Master’s Degree Bioinformatics at Universitat Pompeu FabraUPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Catalan, Spanish, English
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Github Skills (12)
automation10
kubernetes10
automations10
openshift10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
testing10
dockers9
bash9
docker9
github-ci8
githubaction-workflow8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/release
Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
Release tooling for OpenShift
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:30 reviews, 12 PRs, 162 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Joan primarily contributed to the CI/CD pipeline and testing infrastructure for the OpenShift release tooling. Their work included adding and configuring Kuttl tests within the e2e jobs, ensuring the correct execution and reporting of these tests. They also implemented changes to gather logs from Kuttl test namespaces and configured artifact collection for test results, further automating the testing and debugging processes.
continuous-deploymentkubernetesopenshifttooling
cescgina/AdventOfCode
Nov 2019 - Jul 2023
Contributions:103 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
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