Josh Branham
Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Red Hat
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Branham is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer with nine years of experience building developer-centric Kubernetes platforms, now contributing to Managed OpenShift at Red Hat from Boulder, CO. He specializes in improving developer experience through ephemeral test environments, deployment libraries for microservices on Kubernetes, and automating artifact releases across 100+ libraries. At Salsify he helped migrate CI/CD workflows from Jenkins to API-driven systems using GraphQL, Temporal, and Go, unifying infrastructure across AWS and Azure. An active contributor to kOps, he combines hands-on DevOps and backend changes with platform design to make cloud-native operations more predictable and developer-friendly. He’s equally comfortable mentoring small teams and diving into low-level config tweaks that reduce operational friction.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Trade Certificate Information Technology, Trade Certificate Information Technology at Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical High SchoolBachelor's degree Computer Information Systems, Bachelor's degree Computer Information Systems at Fitchburg State University
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Github Skills (13)
kubernetes10
kops10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
cloud-infrastructure9
infrastructure9
command-line-interface8
command-line8
cli8
automations7
automation7
hash6
sed6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/kops
Dec 2018 - Jun 2020
Kubernetes Operations (kOps) - Production Grade k8s Installation, Upgrades and Management
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Back-end Developer
DevOps Engineer & Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 22 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to the configuration and maintenance of the Kubernetes operations tool, kOps. Their changes include modifying the command-line interface for cluster creation, specifically adding conditional logic to guide users based on the environment variables. Additionally, they made whitespace adjustments and removed unnecessary code related to Darwin operating systems. They also updated expected values within the configuration files.
containersgcphelmlinodeinstallation
joshbranham/dockerfiles
Sep 2017 - Feb 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 4 branches in 6 years 5 months
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