John Francini
Principal Software Engineer, Ecosystem Experience Engineering at Appletree Systems
New Hampshire, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Francini is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat with over 10 years of recent experience and a multi-decade track record solving thorny problems across software, networks, and lab-scale infrastructure. He excels at release engineering, build systems, and development data center management, routinely bridging OSes (Linux/BSD/OS X/Windows), storage, and multivendor network stacks to diagnose root causes and ship fixes. Comfortable wearing many hats, he has led lab and network redesigns, managed complex prototype hardware fleets, and contributed tooling in Python, Bash, Perl, and legacy build systems to accelerate releases. Known as a practical “hardware whisperer,” he combines hands-on systems administration with release automation to keep large engineering ecosystems productive. Based in New Hampshire, he leverages deep institutional knowledge from roles at Red Hat, Dell/EqualLogic, HP and others to tame cross-team escalations and rapid platform changes.
10 years of coding experience
40 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Information Systems at Bentley University
Github Skills (23)
redhat10
sdk10
operator10
thunderbird9
openshift-pipelines9
conversations8
openshift8
kubernetes8
cli7
json6
tivo5
conversation4
chrome-extension4
helm4
kubernetes-operator3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jfrancin/citrix-cpx-ingress
Mar 2022 - Mar 2023
Production catalog for Red Hat Certified Operator Bundles
Contributions:2 PRs, 27 pushes, 64 branches in 1 year
red-hatoperatorhatkuberneteskubernetes-operator
jfrancin/certified-operators
Sep 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:22 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 5 months
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