Martin Hickey
Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM), Open Technologies at IBM
Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolMartin Hickey is a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM with over two decades of engineering experience and 11 years focused on cloud, open source, and enterprise communications software. He designs and delivers high-performance, real-time systems for service providers and large enterprises, blending deep backend and DevOps skills with cloud-native patterns. An active CNCF and OpenStack contributor and Helm core maintainer, he has improved widely used tools like Helm, kubebuilder, cri-tools and OpenTelemetry CI—work that underscores his focus on build automation, reliability and backward compatibility. Known for clear technical advocacy and public speaking, he combines hands-on coding with strategic open source leadership. Based in Ireland, he also founded a local open technology meetup to seed community growth and practical knowledge-sharing.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Higher Diploma, Applied Science (Modelling & Numerical Computing), Higher Diploma, Applied Science (Modelling & Numerical Computing) at University College CorkComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at University of Limerick
Github Skills (37)
kubernetes10
container10
controller10
python10
scripting10
testing10
charts10
configuration-management10
bash10
build-system10
n10
networking10
plugin10
charting10
cicd10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
helm/helm-mapkubeapis
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
This is a Helm plugin which map deprecated or removed Kubernetes APIs in a release to supported APIs
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:19 releases, 42 reviews, 69 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily focused on improving the project's build and release automation. They added scripts for installing the plugin, including platform-specific downloads, and implemented tagging functionalities. Furthermore, the user enhanced the user experience by adding more detailed logging messages and also by making the mapping configurable via a separate file. The user also added support for Kubernetes API version mapping.
helm-pluginhelmkubernetes-apissupportedhelm-charts
helm/helm
Aug 2018 - Jan 2023
The Kubernetes Package Manager
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 215 reviews, 309 commits in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily contributed to the plugin functionality within the Helm package manager, enhancing platform-specific command execution. They added logic to handle these commands and updated documentation to reflect the changes. The code modifications also included the addition of a `PlatformCommand` struct, allowing commands to be associated with specific operating systems and architectures. Furthermore, the user refactored code to address linter warnings.
chartscharthelmpackage-managerkubernetes
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