Julen Alustiza
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Zarautz, Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolJulen Alustiza is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating backend systems, DevOps pipelines, and full-stack features across both startups and enterprise at Red Hat. Based in Zarautz, Spain, he blends hands-on engineering with systems and deployment expertise—contributing notable fixes and email/notification improvements to the popular open-source kanban Wekan and enhancing the AWX Ansible web UI and operator for Kubernetes. His background spans backend leadership, CI/CD, Kubernetes resource tuning, and product-facing frontend refinements, reflecting a rare comfort across code, infrastructure, and UX. Trained in full‑stack development and MongoDB administration/security, he often lands pragmatic fixes that improve reliability and usability rather than flashy rewrites.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering at Free Code CampSalbatore MitxelenaMongoDB for NodeJS Developers, MongoDB for NodeJS Developers at MongoDB Inc.MongoDB Security, MongoDB Security at MongoDB Inc
Spanish, Basque, English
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Github Skills (37)
kubernetes10
javascript10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
django10
integrations10
e-mail10
automation10
api10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
automations10
meteor10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/awx-operator
Mar 2021 - Oct 2022
An Ansible AWX operator for Kubernetes built with Operator SDK and Ansible. 🤖
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:57 reviews, 15 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Julen primarily contributes to the project's infrastructure and configuration aspects, focused on the Ansible AWX operator for Kubernetes. Their commits involve modifying Kubernetes resource definitions (CRDs, Deployments, Secrets) and templates, as well as adjusting image configurations and deployment settings. They demonstrate experience in managing execution environments and ensuring proper configuration within the Kubernetes ecosystem.
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ansible/awx
Sep 2017 - Dec 2022
AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. It is one of the upstream projects for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:29 reviews, 13 commits, 17 PRs in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Julen made multiple contributions to the AWX web interface, enhancing both the front-end and back-end. They refactored the layout and implemented new UI components, adjusting the visual presentation using CSS. Additionally, the user updated application configuration logic by integrating with the API for fetching and processing license information, affecting multiple forms and authentication features. They also modified the codebase and documentation to address specific functionality and usability improvements.
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