Joseph Goergen
Software Engineer at IBM
Rochester, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Goergen is a software engineer with six years of experience building and maintaining Kubernetes and OpenShift CI/CD pipelines, currently implementing upstream Kubernetes minor-version updates at IBM. He brings practical QA and test-automation experience from contributing to OpenShift's conformance test suite, where he adapted tests for IBM Cloud-specific behaviors to improve cross-provider reliability. Based in Rochester, Minnesota, he combines hands-on systems work with operational IT experience gained through lifecycle deployments at Hormel Foods, giving him a strong appreciation for end-user impact and operational constraints. Comfortable working across open source and enterprise boundaries, he focuses on making platform upgrades predictable and test suites resilient. Colleague-friendly and detail-oriented, he often surfaces provider-specific edge cases that prevent regressions in large-scale cluster environments.
6 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Winona State University
Github Skills (12)
kubernetes10
automation10
automations10
go10
openshift10
ibm-cloud10
kubernetes-pods10
test-automation10
testing10
cicd9
automation-testing9
devops8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/origin
Jul 2020 - Aug 2021
Conformance test suite for OpenShift
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits, 11 PRs, 99 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Joseph focused on modifying and adjusting existing test suites within the OpenShift origin repository. Their contributions involved removing or skipping tests specifically related to IBM Cloud environments, particularly those involving service accounts, IAM components, and certain routes. They updated the test configurations to accommodate provider-specific differences and ensure the test suite's reliability across varied deployment environments, mainly the IBM Cloud.
containerscontinuous-deploymentcaaspaascontinuous-testing
Joseph-Goergen/hypershift
Mar 2024 - Apr 2025
Hyperscale OpenShift - clusters with hosted control planes
Contributions:74 pushes, 24 branches in 1 year
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