Jonathan Brassow
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Red Hat
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Brassow is a Senior Software Engineering Manager with 26 years of experience specializing in Linux storage and clustering, currently leading 40+ engineers across seven countries at Red Hat. He progressed from research assistant to principal engineer and then to management, combining deep kernel and userspace expertise with hands-on product work in tiered storage, thin provisioning, snapshots, RAID, multipathing, and encryption. Jonathan is a pragmatic problem-solver who has contributed to key open-source cluster projects (including resource-agents) and improved snapshot and exception-store mechanisms in storage tooling. He is an accomplished presenter and mentor who blends customer-facing roles—support, training, and pre-sales—with large-scale engineering leadership. Based in Saint Paul, MN, he brings a rare mix of long-term technical ownership and global team-building experience that keeps complex storage ecosystems running smoothly.
26 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Engineering, MS, Computer Engineering at University of MinnesotaAssociate's Degree, Pre-Engineering, Associate's Degree, Pre-Engineering at Bethany Lutheran College
Github Skills (18)
snap10
c1110
snapshots10
c1710
kernel10
kernel-mode10
snap-shot10
cluster-manager10
cluster-api10
clustering10
data-structure9
lvm9
data-structures9
system-administration8
memory-management8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ClusterLabs/resource-agents
Jun 2004 - Jan 2013
Combined repository of OCF agents from the RHCS and Linux-HA projects
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:171 commits in 8 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily worked on the underlying cluster infrastructure for the resource-agents project, specifically in the context of the cman cluster manager and the LVM subsystem. Their contributions involved modifying existing code to enable building outside the kernel, fixing problems with update and connection handling, and enabling IPv6 and multicast support within the CCS daemon. The user also addressed several bugs in the CCS and LVM subsystems, enhancing overall cluster stability.
linux
jonsmirl/mpc5200
Nov 2005 - Jun 2011
Digispeaker
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:73 commits in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to the device-mapper snapshot functionality, focusing on exception store implementations. Their work involved separating the exception store interface and refactoring code to enhance modularity. Furthermore, the user extended exception store functions and introduced a registry for managing them. These changes suggest improvements to the underlying mechanisms for managing and interacting with snapshot data.
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