Mike Battles
Senior Principal Architect at Red Hat
Vienna, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Battles is a Senior Principal Architect with 11 years of experience focused on solving large-scale business problems through simple, resilient, and maintainable technology solutions. Based in Vienna, Virginia, he has spent his career at Red Hat advising public sector and enterprise clients on middleware integrations, SDLC alignment, and risk mitigation across healthcare, telecom, finance, defense, and civilian agencies. He blends deep technical expertise with pragmatic business understanding, often tailoring solutions and guiding delivery teams through complex political and technical constraints. Known for actively avoiding unnecessary complexity, he has led engagements from solo pilots to multi-consultant strategic deliveries across three countries. What sets him apart is his focus on practical, auditable outcomes—translating high-level objectives into implementable architectures that reduce long-term operational risk.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Information Science, BS, Information Science at Christopher Newport University
English
Github Skills (27)
ffmpeg7
openshift7
alfred-workflow6
screen-capture6
live-streaming6
obs-studio5
argocd4
video-recording4
cli4
alfred4
vault3
kubernetes-resources3
rust3
chatbot3
obsidian3
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mike4263/dotfiles
Jul 2016 - Jul 2019
Contributions:39 PRs, 41 pushes, 42 branches in 3 years
RedHatOfficial/odie
Aug 2018 - Apr 2019
ODIE - OpenShift Disconnected Installer for Enterprise.
Contributions:108 commits, 5 PRs, 14 pushes in 8 months
openshift
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