José Gómez
Software Maintenance Engineer at Red Hat
Seville, Andalusia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolJosé Gómez is a Software Maintenance Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in GNU/Linux systems, kernel maintenance, and open source advocacy. Currently at Red Hat, he focuses on software maintenance and previously handled kernel backports and security fixes for Extended Update Support streams. He has hands-on experience in upstream development, packaging (.deb), and OS deployment tooling from his work on the OpenGnsys project used by Spanish universities. Comfortable across C, Python and system-level engineering, he also has a background in backend .NET development and organizing FOSS community events. Based in Seville, José blends practical maintenance expertise with a long-standing commitment to free and open source software and user-focused technical support. An often-overlooked strength is his track record of ensuring smooth upgrade paths between distribution streams, bridging upstream fixes and downstream stability.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of SevilleAssociate's degree / Higher Technician in Multi-platform Applications Development, Computer Engineering Technology/Technician, Associate's degree / Higher Technician in Multi-platform Applications Development, Computer Engineering Technology/Technician at Instituto Nervión
Spanish, English
Github Skills (70)
amqp-client10
prometheus-exporter10
git-repo10
statistics10
linux10
redis-client10
collectd10
latency10
golang10
metrics-server10
rrdtool10
cpu-monitoring10
tor10
snmp10
system-monitoring10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
opengnsys/ogClient
Nov 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:55 commits in 2 years 1 month
pvxe/collectd
May 2020 - Mar 2025
Personal copy of collectd. I'm currently developing a plugin which add support for nftables. See nftables_plugin branch.
Contributions:8 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 10 months
minecraftdevelopingcollectdnftablesplugin
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