John Hixson
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Modesto, California, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Hixson is a Principal Software Engineer with over a decade of experience maturing open source projects into production-grade products, currently advancing OpenShift and Kubernetes at Red Hat. He combines deep systems and DevOps expertise—Go, Terraform, Azure, AWS, GCP—with a track record of building CI/CD, automated testing, and deployment practices that reduce silos and accelerate delivery. His GitHub contributions to the openshift/installer show hands-on impact deploying OpenShift on Azure, including networking, encryption, and customer VNet support, reflecting both platform-level thinking and pragmatic engineering. Previously he helped evolve storage systems at iXsystems (FreeNAS/TrueNAS), bringing low-level systems knowledge to cloud-native infrastructure. Based in Modesto, CA, he blends BSD and Red Hat roots, thriving in collaborative open-source communities and mentoring teams to turn shared learning into commercial value.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Electronic Engineering, Electronic Engineering at California State University, Chico
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Github contributions (5)
openshift/installer
Jun 2019 - Sep 2022
Install an OpenShift 4.x cluster
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:293 reviews, 88 commits, 139 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:John's contributions primarily revolve around the deployment of OpenShift clusters on Azure. The user implemented features, such as adding public IP addresses and restricting access to the bootstrap node. They also made changes to the Azure configuration, adding support for customer-provisioned virtual networks and subnets, as well as modifications to disk encryption and the selection of instance types based on region. These efforts included the creation of an internal load balancer.
gcpvmsansiblelibvirtopenshift
jhixson74/installer
May 2019 - Apr 2025
Install an OpenShift cluster
Contributions:892 pushes, 137 branches, 1 tag in 5 years 11 months
openshiftk8skubernetesclusteropenshift-cluster
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