Joshua Packer
Lead Architect, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management - Distinguished Engineer
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Packer is a seasoned cloud-native architect and Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat with nine years focused on Kubernetes and a long history in IBM's cloud and platform teams. He leads Advanced Cluster Management efforts, driving GitOps-first application management, fleet provisioning, and day-two operations—including work on Hosted Control Planes and Hypershift for hosted OpenShift control planes. Joshua combines hands-on backend and DevOps engineering with product-level architecture, contributing notable enhancements to Hypershift and Open Cluster Management deployment tooling to broaden multi-cloud credential and upgrade workflows. Based in Canada, he brings a rare mix of low-level infrastructure experience and user-facing cluster lifecycle design, informed by a background in both computer science and human biology. Colleagues rely on him to bridge operator/CLI implementation detail with large-scale multicluster strategy, making complex distributed systems feel operationally simple.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Art's and Science, Computer Science & Human Biology, Bachelor's of Art's and Science, Computer Science & Human Biology at University of Toronto
Github Skills (24)
kubernetes10
scripting10
microsoft-azure10
automation10
script10
go10
openshift10
aws10
kubernetes-pods10
sh10
azure10
automations10
shell10
devops10
cloud-infrastructure9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/hypershift
Jan 2022 - Nov 2022
Hyperscale OpenShift - clusters with hosted control planes
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:76 reviews, 5 commits, 13 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily contributed to the Hypershift project by enhancing AWS and Azure infrastructure management capabilities within the CLI and operator components. Their work includes adding support for static AWS credentials, Azure credentials, and multi-cluster engine secret integration. These changes allow for greater flexibility in integrating HyperShift with various environments, including those using pre-existing MCE credentials. Further contributions include fixing a type in the azure cluster and ensuring validation continues after a failure.
clustershostedopenshiftsdnk8s
stolostron/deploy
Mar 2020 - Sep 2022
Deploy Development Builds of Open Cluster Management (OCM) on RedHat Openshift Container Platform
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 29 commits, 28 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Joshua focused on enhancing the deployment and upgrade processes for Open Cluster Management (OCM) on RedHat Openshift Container Platform. Their contributions include modifying `start.sh` to support features such as enabling search functionality and dynamically picking channels. They also added support for upgrading Multicluster Engine, creating and modifying scripts related to the upgrade process, and adjusting annotations to correct locations within the configurations. The user's work improves the platform's functionality and usability.
cluster-managementopenshiftoperatorhybrid-cloudmulti-cloud
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