Michael Valdron
Software Engineer at Red Hat
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolMichael Valdron is a software engineer with a decade of experience who currently builds open-source cloud and developer tooling at Red Hat, focusing on the Devfile open standard and its registry services. He combines graduate-level research in computer science with hands-on product delivery, having published IEEE conference work and supported university courses as a teaching assistant. His background spans full-stack application development, data migration and automation in both enterprise (Ontario Power Generation) and nonprofit settings, plus freelance projects that honed his project and client-facing skills. Comfortable in Linux, Git, SQL, and .NET ecosystems, he contributes to open source both professionally and in his spare time. Known for bridging research rigor with practical engineering, he brings a pragmatic focus on documentation, maintainability, and community-friendly tooling.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Computer Programmer Analyst, Associate's degree, Computer Programmer Analyst at Durham CollegeMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Ontario Tech UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Ontario Institute of Technology
English
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Github Skills (84)
tooling10
application-service10
metadata10
harbor10
docker-registry10
specification10
operator10
catalog10
kubernetes-operator10
api10
continuous-deployment10
kubernetes10
openshift10
container-cop10
lifecycle10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
michael-valdron/dotfiles
Mar 2022 - Feb 2025
My personal dotfiles for my user profile.
Contributions:3 reviews, 5 PRs, 111 pushes in 3 years
zshrctmux-confemacs-configurationuser-profilepersonal-dotfiles
michael-valdron/community-operators
Sep 2023 - Dec 2024
The canonical source for Kubernetes Operators that are published on OperatorHub.io and part of the default catalog of the Operator Lifecycle Manager.
Contributions:102 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 3 months
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