Josh West
Global AI Ecosystem Leader & Distinguished Architect at Red Hat
Old Toronto, Ontario, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh West is a Global AI Ecosystem Leader and Distinguished Architect with 23 years of experience helping enterprises adopt cloud-native and AI technologies in highly regulated, mission-critical environments. At Red Hat he bridges strategy, technical guidance, and go-to-market execution to build open, trusted AI ecosystems across partners, integrators, and cloud providers. His hands-on background spans platform architecture, Argo CD/OpenShift GitOps, and developer tooling—contributions to prominent open-source projects like Argo CD and AppStudio demonstrate a deep focus on deployability and devops automation. He is known for enabling transformation at scale by aligning technical roadmaps with business outcomes while coaching technical sales leaders and architects. Based in Old Toronto, Josh combines enterprise-grade rigor from financial and government systems with an operator’s knack for improving CI/CD, testing, and deployment workflows. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic leadership that turns complex infrastructure shifts into repeatable, trustable outcomes.
23 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer and System Engineering, BS Computer and System Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (35)
continuous-deployment10
e2e-testing10
kubernetes10
github-ci10
container10
docker10
e2e-test10
testing10
test-framework10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
argocd10
gitops10
automation10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
argoproj/applicationset
Dec 2020 - Mar 2022
The ApplicationSet controller manages multiple Argo CD Applications as a single ApplicationSet unit, supporting deployments to large numbers of clusters, deployments of large monorepos, and enabling secure Application self-service.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 releases, 166 reviews, 78 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to the codebase by adding and modifying testing workflows. These changes included integrating a go fmt workflow to format the code, and adding a build and test GitHub action. This work aimed to enhance the code quality, maintainability, and automation within the project. This indicates a strong focus on improving the development and deployment processes.
argocdargo-cd
redhat-appstudio/infra-deployments
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
This repository is an initial set of Argo-CD-based deployments of AppStudio components to a cluster, plus a script to bootstrap Argo CD onto that cluster (to drive these Argo-CD-based deployments, via OpenShift GitOps).
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:53 reviews, 51 commits, 205 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily focused on automating and configuring the deployment of AppStudio components using Argo CD. Their work involved writing scripts to bootstrap and destroy clusters, update the Argo CD version, and integrate with OpenShift GitOps. They also implemented an "app-of-apps" pattern for managing the deployment of multiple components and made adjustments to the route configuration for improved compatibility.
argocdbootstrapgitopsopenshift
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