Lisa Ranjbar
Platform Engineer
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolLisa Ranjbar is a Platform Engineer with 11 years of experience building and securing cloud-native infrastructure, currently shaping platform tooling at StrongDM after a senior engineering role on OpenShift at Red Hat. She brings deep OpenShift and DevOps expertise, having contributed to high-profile projects like the OpenShift installer and assisted-service to streamline cluster installation, zero-touch provisioning, and image mirroring workflows. Her background spans cloud security and IoT-focused DevOps at American Express and Intel, demonstrating a strong blend of security-minded engineering and automation. Collected contributions show she moves beyond scripts to improve CI/CD, manifest-driven installers, and operator deployments for multi-node and remote cluster scenarios. Based in Scottsdale, AZ, she pairs a BS in Computer Science with a pragmatic, systems-level approach to reducing friction in complex platform rollouts. Peers would describe her as a pragmatic problem-solver who quietly improves developer velocity through thoughtful automation and reliability work.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Arizona State UniversityAssociate of Science (A.S.) Mathematics, Associate of Science (A.S.) Mathematics at Del Mar College
English
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Github Skills (19)
kubernetes10
docker10
apidoc10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
go10
openshift10
api10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
automations10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/installer
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Install an OpenShift 4.x cluster
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:54 reviews, 36 commits, 13 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Lisa primarily focused on developing features related to the agent installer within the OpenShift environment. They added functionality for a zero-client and implemented waiting mechanisms for various stages of the installation process, including bootstrap completion and API readiness. Their contributions also involved refactoring the code to utilize manifests and working on the integration and validation of different components within the installation process.
gcpvmsansiblelibvirtopenshift
openshift/assisted-service
Jan 2021 - May 2022
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:65 reviews, 20 commits, 40 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Lisa primarily focused on improving the build and deployment process of the `assisted-service` repository. They implemented and updated formatting checks, addressing security vulnerabilities identified by gosec. The user also introduced and modified scripts and configurations for deploying the operator in different environments, including adding support for ZTP (Zero Touch Provisioning) flows and adding options for deploying with local filesystem storage and multi node spoke clusters, thus improving the CI/CD pipeline.
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