Jorge Gallegos
Sr Software Engineer at Red Hat
South Gate, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorJorge Gallegos is a Senior Software Engineer with 17 years of experience specializing in distributed server and cluster management, high-traffic/high-availability systems, and distributed datastores both SQL and NoSQL. Currently at Red Hat, he focuses on Kubernetes/OpenShift development and CI/CD design, bringing practical expertise in automating and operating production clusters. He codes primarily in Python but adapts quickly to other languages and tooling, and manages infrastructure with Ansible and Puppet while remaining tool-agnostic. Jorge combines deep systems thinking with hands-on implementation, routinely balancing performance, reliability, and operability at scale. Based in South Gate, California, he pairs enterprise-grade discipline with an open-source mindset—evident from his long-standing freenode presence as kad/thekad. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that tame complex distributed environments and accelerate delivery.
17 years of coding experience
Spanish, English
Github Skills (178)
tooling10
uwsgi10
hat10
microsoft-azure10
fault-tolerance10
pastebin10
mesosphere10
ansible10
azure10
continuous-deployment10
kubernetes10
container10
redhat10
openshift10
gnome10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
thekad/ansible-collection-redhatci-ocp
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:85 pushes, 42 branches in 1 year 5 months
thekad/shotfirst
Apr 2016 - Mar 2024
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch, 2 tags in 8 years
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