Nir Argaman
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolNir Argaman is a Principal Software Engineer based in Sydney with six years of focused experience building cloud-native infrastructure and integrations for Red Hat. He works across OpenShift, Hypershift, KubeVirt and RHCOS, blending backend development in Go and Python with DevOps practices on AWS, GCP and Azure. At Red Hat he leads cross-team research and partner-facing engineering to adapt products to diverse partner requirements and bleeding-edge platforms. His open-source contributions include extending Hypershift to support KubeVirt and hardening the OpenShift installer’s Kubernetes client interactions, reflecting deep Kubernetes API and controller experience. Earlier roles span distributed storage, microservices and mobile SDKs, showing an unusual mix of low-level platform work and large-scale cloud systems design. He brings practical leadership—owning features end-to-end, mentoring engineers, and shipping scalable, production-ready solutions.
6 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Github Skills (12)
kubernetes10
go10
openshift10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
terraform9
cicd9
cloud-computing9
terraformer9
api-design7
dockers5
docker5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/installer
Jul 2020 - Oct 2021
Install an OpenShift 4.x cluster
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:146 reviews, 34 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Nir primarily focused on modifying the project's dependencies and integrating updates to Kubernetes-related modules, as well as addressing test failures tied to version upgrades. They integrated context parameters for `k8s.io/client-go` calls, demonstrating knowledge of Kubernetes client interactions. Furthermore, the user worked on the addition of klog flags and the disabling of logs from Kubernetes clients.
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openshift/hypershift
Jan 2022 - Aug 2022
Hyperscale OpenShift - clusters with hosted control planes
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:94 reviews, 17 commits, 16 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Nir primarily contributed to the Hypershift project, focusing on adding and integrating the KubeVirt platform. Their work involved modifying existing code and adding new files to support the KubeVirt platform, including creating resources and integrating them with the HostedCluster controller. The user's contributions also included modifications to the command-line interface, adding KubeVirt-specific options, and adapting NodePool configurations for the KubeVirt platform. This indicates a focus on extending the platform's capabilities and integrating it into the existing infrastructure.
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