Johnathan Kupferer
Senior Architect at Red Hat
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJohnathan Kupferer is a Senior Architect at Red Hat with 11 years of experience designing and enabling cloud-native OpenShift solutions for partners and customers. He blends deep systems and Linux expertise—honed as an instructor and research programmer—with practical DevOps and automation skills demonstrated through significant contributions to Red Hat’s containers-quickstarts and AgnosticD projects. At Red Hat he focuses on Global Partner Technical Enablement, helping teams deploy and automate OpenShift at scale while improving tooling, examples, and documentation. Notably, he has refactored operator examples to use asyncio, added robust install scripts for Kubernetes tooling, and automated complex OpenShift AWS deployments—work that improves both developer onboarding and production reliability. Based in Chicago, he brings a rare mix of teaching experience, hands-on infrastructure engineering, and open-source contribution to drive repeatable, deployable architectures.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Neuroscience, BS, Neuroscience at University of Illinois at Chicago
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Github Skills (24)
kubernetes10
docker10
python10
cloud-infrastructure10
dockers10
cicd10
s2i10
openshift10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
devops10
asyncio9
aws9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
redhat-cop/containers-quickstarts
Jan 2017 - Dec 2022
Images & templates for deploying software to OpenShift
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 28 PRs, 19 comments in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Johnathan contributed significantly to the `containers-quickstarts` repository, focusing on enhancing the `python-kopf-s2i` example. Their work included adding features such as install scripts for essential tools like `oc`, `kubectl`, and `helm`, along with updates to the Python runtime environment, and example implementations. Additionally, the user improved documentation and examples, refactored the code to leverage `asyncio`, and streamlined kopf configuration and dependencies.
deployingopenshiftcontainer-cops2ikubernetes
redhat-cop/agnosticd
Mar 2019 - Jan 2023
AgnosticD - Ansible Deployer for multiple Cloud Deployers
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:4 releases, 954 reviews, 729 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Johnathan primarily focused on automating and configuring infrastructure for OpenShift deployments within the AgnosticD framework. Their contributions include updating installation configurations for OpenShift versions, modifying AWS MachineSet configurations for OpenShift 4 deployments, and enhancing the `agnosticd_user_info` module to improve output and capture user-specific data. They also addressed bug fixes and made code style adjustments. These changes suggest a focus on automating deployments and managing infrastructure.
vagrantgpteansibleinfrastructure-managementdeployer
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