Marcus Kok
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMarcus Kok is a cloud-native Senior Software Engineer with seven years of experience building and hardening container registry and distribution systems, now at Red Hat after progressing from Software Engineer roles. He focuses on observability, automation, and reliability—contributions to the widely used Quay project include metrics for build queues, success rates, and scan latency plus deployment orchestration improvements. Based in Raleigh, he blends hands-on SRE/DevOps practice with software engineering skills from a Computer/Electrical Engineering background at NC State. Colleagues rely on him to turn performance data into operational improvements and predictable deployments, and he brings a pragmatic attention to deployment order and monitoring that reduces production surprises.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at NC State Electrical & Computer Engineering
Github Skills (14)
release-management10
automation10
kubernetes10
build-tools10
automations10
docker10
container10
build-system10
dockers10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
sre10
prometheus9
go4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
quay/quay
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Build, Store, and Distribute your Applications and Containers
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
DevOps Engineer & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)Contributions:1 release, 117 reviews, 15 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Marcus made several contributions focused on improving the reliability and observability of the Quay project. They implemented metrics to track build queue duration, build success rates, and the time it takes to get security scan results. Additionally, they modified deployment scripts to improve the order of operations for deployments and added configuration changes. These contributions indicate a focus on monitoring, automation, and optimizing system performance within the container registry environment.
containersoci-distributiondockerkubernetesdistribute
Marcusk19/quay
Oct 2022 - Mar 2025
Build, Store, and Distribute your Applications and Containers
Contributions:10 PRs, 341 pushes, 165 branches in 2 years 5 months
containersdistributekubernetesdocker
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