Marc Sluiter
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Schüttorf, Lower Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolMarc Sluiter is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of professional experience and a long history in cloud-native infrastructure and operator development at Red Hat. He specializes in DevOps and back-end engineering for Kubernetes and OpenShift ecosystems, contributing to prominent projects like openshift/release and kubevirt where he improved CI/CD tooling, cross-platform build support, and operator integrations. Marc has a strong track record of improving reliability and maintainability—introducing pause features for machine health checks, refactoring remediation logic, and adding unit tests to tame flaky provider-specific tests. He blends hands-on scripting and cloud provider expertise (AWS, Azure, ARO) with pragmatic automation work, such as adapting Boskos resource management and Medik8s configurations for real-world quotas and branch protection. Based in Schüttorf, Germany, he pairs deep technical craftsmanship with a focus on operational workflows that make complex release engineering repeatable. His long tenure across consultancy and product roles gives him a practical edge in shipping robust, production-ready infrastructure.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Technical Informatics, Diploma, Technical Informatics at Fachhochschule Münster
English, German
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Github Skills (26)
kubernetes10
docker10
hyper-v10
testing10
kubernetes-operator10
microsoft-azure10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
infrastructure10
go10
openshift10
api10
build-automation10
kubernetes-pods10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
kubevirt/hyperconverged-cluster-operator
Apr 2019 - Nov 2019
Operator pattern for managing multi-operator products
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 commits, 10 PRs, 24 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Marc primarily contributed to the core functionality of the hyperconverged-cluster-operator, specifically focusing on creating and managing KubeVirt configurations and updating dependencies. They also demonstrate experience in modifying code to incorporate new features and adapt to updated versions of KubeVirt. The user's work included integrating essential components of Kubevirt, such as configmaps, and updating the version of KubeVirt in the vendor directory.
hcohyperconvergedopenshiftoperatorvirtualization
kubevirt/kubevirt
Mar 2018 - Jan 2020
Kubernetes Virtualization API and runtime in order to define and manage virtual machines.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:386 commits, 237 PRs, 136 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Marc's contributions center around enhancing the build process and supporting the deployment of the `kubevirt/kubevirt` repository. This includes extending the build scripts to support Darwin and Windows targets for the `virtctl` utility and modifying build configurations. Furthermore, the user addressed logging verbosity improvements and other deployment specific tasks.
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