Jordan Keister
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Allen, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJordan Keister is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years of recent experience and a two-decade-spanning career in embedded systems, telecom core networks, virtualization, and cloud-native tooling. Currently at Red Hat, he blends backend engineering and DevOps expertise—demonstrated by contributions to the operator-registry project where he added features like declarative config rendering and graph visualization—while driving build and runtime improvements. He has a strong track record modernizing distributed embedded platforms and virtualized packet-core products using C++, Python, and orchestration technologies across VMware, OpenStack, and Kubernetes. A seasoned Scrum Master and technical lead, Jordan pairs hands-on implementation with team coaching and process improvements across SAFe environments. His background combines deep systems-level knowledge from avionics and carrier-grade telecom with practical open-source impact and a habit of optimizing developer and operational workflows.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MSCS - incomplete Computer Science, MSCS - incomplete Computer Science at The University of Texas at DallasBA History, BA History at Texas A&M UniversityMSCS - incomplete Computer Science, MSCS - incomplete Computer Science at Southern Methodist University
Github Skills (17)
kubernetes10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
declarative10
k8s-operator10
configurations10
operator-sdk10
operator10
grpc9
docker8
cli8
containerd8
command-line-interface8
command-line8
cicd8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
operator-framework/operator-registry
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Operator Registry runs in a Kubernetes or OpenShift cluster to provide operator catalog data to Operator Lifecycle Manager.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 releases, 266 reviews, 29 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Jordan primarily contributed to the operator-registry project by adding new features and improving existing functionality. They implemented the `opm alpha render-veneer semver` command, which generates declarative config data, and the `render-graph` command to visualize channel graphs. In addition to feature development, the user updated the build environment, added profiling options, and optimized file permissions within the project, indicating a focus on improving the project's development and operational aspects.
kubernetesopenshiftoperatoroperator-lifecycle-managerkubernetes-operator
grokspawn/operator-framework-operator-controller
Jun 2023 - May 2026
The central component of Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) v1, which extends kubernetes with an API through which users can install Operators
Contributions:55 pushes, 27 branches in 3 years
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