Mark Turansky
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolMark Turansky is a Principal Software Engineer with 11+ years building cloud-native platforms, currently focused on distributed computing and PaaS on Red Hat's OpenShift team. He designed and implemented core Kubernetes/PersistentVolume APIs, dynamic provisioning, and progressive delivery tooling used in OpenShift origin and OpenShift Online, and has spoken on these topics at LinuxCon and DevConf. His work spans architecture, performance optimization, and advanced CI/CD including canary deployments and telemetry-driven gating for api.openshift.com. Prior roles include rebooting a SaaS scheduling platform and leading hybrid SRE and FedRAMP/govcloud OpenShift onboarding for large customers, demonstrating both hands-on systems engineering and operational leadership. An active contributor to high-profile upstream projects like kubernetes/api and openshift/origin, he blends deep backend and DevOps experience with pragmatic product delivery. Based in Mount Pleasant, SC, he brings a rare mix of federal compliance experience, low-level distributed-systems design, and rapid-release execution.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BA Political Science Major in Political Science minor in Music Theory and Composition, BA Political Science Major in Political Science minor in Music Theory and Composition at University of Maryland
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Github Skills (12)
kubernetes10
container10
go10
openshift10
api10
validate10
validations10
apidoc10
kubernetes-pods10
testing10
devops9
cicd8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/api
Oct 2014 - Oct 2016
The canonical location of the Kubernetes API definition.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:47 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Mark made significant contributions to the Kubernetes API definition. They implemented label validation, ensuring adherence to RFC952 standards. Further, the user refactored service definitions and updated Pod related components to align with API version v1beta3. The user's work involved modifying code, along with updating validation tests.
apikubernetes-apilocationkubernetesdefinition
openshift/origin
May 2015 - Oct 2016
Conformance test suite for OpenShift
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:42 commits, 43 PRs, 421 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Mark contributed to the OpenShift origin repository by implementing Kubernetes-related features and integrating them within the OpenShift framework. This involved adding components like the Kubernetes Persistent Volume Claim Binder and implementing various Kubernetes volume plugins to align with upstream. Furthermore, the user's work included adding a PVRecycler controller and modifying the master configuration to include the required components for persistent volume management. The user's commits also included a new script for volume scrubbing, indicating involvement in DevOps related infrastructure work.
containerscontinuous-deploymentcaaspaascontinuous-testing
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