John Kyros
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Papillion, Nebraska, United States
Summary
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RockstarJohn Kyros is a Principal Software Engineer with two decades of engineering experience and five years focused on cloud-native systems at Red Hat, where he contributes to OpenShift features like Machine Config Operator and Pod Autoscaling. He brings a rare combination of large-enterprise operational insight from a long tenure at Union Pacific Railroad and hands-on open-source backend work—implementing daemon update strategies, rebootless SIGTERM handling, and e2e certificate rotation tests for the widely-used machine-config-operator. Based in Papillion, Nebraska, he excels at production-focused infrastructure, dependency hygiene, and integration testing that reduce operational risk. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex distributed-systems requirements into pragmatic, auditable solutions. Beyond code, his profile suggests a knack for improving resiliency in long-lived systems rather than chasing hype.
5 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (13)
daemon10
kubernetes10
server-configuration10
configurations10
go10
openshift10
daemons10
system-configuration10
kubernetes-pods10
testing9
automations9
automation9
cicd8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/machine-config-operator
Jun 2021 - Nov 2022
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:157 reviews, 90 commits, 51 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to the `machine-config-operator` repository by implementing features and fixing bugs related to the daemon's functionality. Their work included merging update strategies for DaemonSets, addressing rebootless SIGTERM handling, and adding checks for dangling symlinks. Additionally, they updated dependencies and added an e2e test for certificate rotation alerts, demonstrating involvement in testing and integration.
jkyros/keda
Aug 2023 - May 2026
KEDA is a Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaling component. It provides event driven scale for any container running in Kubernetes
Contributions:5 PRs, 125 pushes, 26 branches in 2 years 8 months
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