Justin Pierce
OpenShift Senior Principal Software Engineer At Red Hat
Cary, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Pierce is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat with over a decade of experience designing and hardening cloud-native build and CI/CD systems for OpenShift. He blends backend engineering and DevOps expertise, driving improvements in logging, error handling, build strategies, and automation across flagship OpenShift projects like source-to-image, ci-tools, and release tooling. Justin has a track record of solving subtle reliability issues—race conditions, directory truncation, and pod deletion edge cases—while optimizing cost and stability for large-scale CI fleets on AWS and GCP. He’s comfortable across the stack, from JVM-based plugins to container build internals and RBAC for ephemeral clusters, and prioritizes observability and reproducible builds. Based in Cary, NC, he pairs a Master of Computer Science from NCSU with long-tenured enterprise experience (IBM, Toshiba) to deliver production-grade platform engineering. An underappreciated strength: he often focuses on small, high-leverage fixes (accurate log line numbers, clearer watch errors) that materially improve developer productivity and debugging.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Science, Computer Science, Master of Computer Science, Computer Science at North Carolina State University
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Github Skills (48)
kubernetes10
docker10
python10
scripting10
groovy10
containerization10
dockers10
cicd10
gcp10
automation10
script10
go10
openshift10
aws10
build-automation10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/origin
Jun 2016 - Dec 2021
Conformance test suite for OpenShift
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 309 commits, 73 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily focused on improving the logging functionality and implementing build-related features within the OpenShift origin repository. They updated the logging statements in multiple files, ensuring consistency with the project's specifications. The user also introduced modifications to the build process, including changes to the Docker build strategy and enhancements related to handling secrets within builds. These changes likely aimed to improve the debugging experience and overall build system.
containerscontinuous-deploymentcaaspaascontinuous-testing
openshift/openshift-tools
Mar 2017 - Oct 2018
A public repository of scripts used by OpenShift Operations for various purposes
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:98 commits, 175 PRs, 59 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Justin's contributions primarily revolve around scripting and configuration for the OpenShift platform. Their work includes modifying the `verify-cicd-operation.py` script, likely to add new functionality related to CI/CD operations and argument validation. Further changes include modifying the path for a related shell script, and incorporating docker arguments, indicating a focus on build and deployment automation. The user also made changes related to integrating and updating Ansible playbooks.
public-repositorykubernetesopenshift
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