Jonh Wendell
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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RockstarJonh Wendell is a Principal Software Engineer with 19 years of experience building cloud-native, Linux desktop and embedded systems, currently advancing Istio and Envoy integration for Red Hat’s OpenShift. A long-time GNOME contributor and maintainer, he pairs deep C expertise (including GLib/GTK+ and occasional kernel dives) with strong JavaScript, Python and DevOps skills to improve both UI and core libraries. He’s comfortable working upstream and downstream—contributing patches to major open-source projects, optimizing build and packaging pipelines, and hardening CI/CD for large-scale deployments. Jonh’s background ranges from high-concurrency network proxies and custom Linux distros to container image automation and service mesh packaging, reflecting a blend of systems-level rigor and product-focused delivery. He also regularly presents at conferences and collaborates across global communities, an experience that honed his ability to navigate technical and social complexity in open-source projects.
19 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (40)
ec10
service-mesh10
kubernetes10
javascript10
docker10
lib10
api-design10
debian10
gnome-shell10
bash10
code-library10
c1110
ui-design10
amazon-web-services10
dockers10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
istio/istio
Jan 2018 - Nov 2022
Connect, secure, control, and observe services.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:348 reviews, 141 commits, 275 PRs in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Jonh primarily focused on enhancing the build and deployment processes of the Istio project. Their commits included improvements to shell scripts for build and testing, handling GOPATH configurations, and optimizing Docker-related tasks. They also contributed to the implementation of RPM packaging and introduced features for overriding symbols and enabling OpenShift support within the build process.
circuit-breakerenforce-policiesistioapi-managementmicroservice
GNOME/glib
Feb 2008 - May 2017
Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits in 9 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jonh contributed to the glib library by modifying and adding functionality to core C code. Their work included marking strings for translation, fixing typos, making strings translatable, and adding functions for deep copying lists, all of which enhance the library's functionality and maintainability. They also added a function to handle structured logging with GVariant data. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving core utilities and developer experience within the library.
pygobjectgnome-shell-extensiongtk-rsgnomegitlab
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