Jordan Borean
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat Asia Pacific
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJordan Borean is a Principal Software Engineer based in Brisbane with nine years of experience building and hardening automation and Windows interoperability tooling at scale, currently driving Ansible Core development for Red Hat in APAC. He brings deep backend and DevOps expertise, contributing security-focused fixes and feature work to high-profile open-source projects like PowerShell and Ansible, and enhancing WinRM and CredSSP support in pywinrm. Jordan’s work emphasizes reliable CI/CD, cross-platform PowerShell compatibility (including PowerShell 7), and migrating legacy components to safer, modern implementations. Early roles in treasury technology and systems support give him a practical appreciation for operational risk and real-world constraints, informing pragmatic design decisions.
10 years of coding experience
Padua CollegeBachelor's Degree, Networking, Databases, Programming, 5.96, Bachelor's Degree, Networking, Databases, Programming, 5.96 at Queensland University of Technology
Github Skills (41)
ansible-module10
python10
winrm10
ansible-collections10
testing10
windows10
windows-administration10
windows-xp10
cicd10
automation10
infrastructure10
http-request10
dotnet-core10
command-line10
ansible10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
ansible-collections/ansible.windows
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
Windows core collection for Ansible
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:32 releases, 192 reviews, 206 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Jordan focused on refactoring the PowerShell modules within the repository, migrating core plugins to a collection. They implemented various enhancements, including adding a process utility and a command-line argument utility, ensuring that the modules work correctly with PowerShell 7. Also, the user made updates to the code that handled environments variables to prevent any potential conflicts and added features to ensure that the code works with a variety of different execution policy settings.
ansibleansible-collection
ansible-collections/community.windows
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Windows community collection for Ansible
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:21 releases, 214 reviews, 121 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jordan's commits primarily focus on improving the test suite and CI/CD pipeline for the `community.windows` Ansible collection. This includes fixing test failures, updating Ansible pip URLs, and refactoring the shippable script. The user also added a new module, `win_psscript`, which involved writing both PowerShell code and Python module definition. Additionally, they made changes related to enabling TLS 1.2 and fixing documentation issues.
ansiblewindowsansible-collection
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