Mark Old is a software engineer with 14 years of experience building backend systems and cloud-native tooling, currently contributing to Red Hat from Spokane, Washington. He combines hands-on development and DevOps skills, notably adding AWS VPC endpoint pagination, Route53 handling, and install-time metrics improvements to the widely used openshift/hive project. His background includes product-focused roles at Kochava and internships at HPE and LIGO, and he’s comfortable managing dependencies and build upgrades such as Go version migrations. Known for a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach (and a preference for tabs over spaces), he focuses on reliable infrastructure, observability, and production-ready automation.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Gonzaga University
API driven OpenShift cluster provisioning and management
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:37 reviews, 24 commits, 46 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributed to the `openshift/hive` repository by adding features related to AWS VPC endpoint pagination and integrating new functionality for handling Route53 zones and SCA certificate pull failures within the installation process. They also updated the install time metrics buckets, improving the monitoring capabilities. Furthermore, they updated to go 1.18 and removed dependencies which may indicate contributions to build process or dependencies management.
Contributions:22 commits, 4 pushes, 2 comments in 3 years 4 months
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