Oliver Walsh
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Ireland
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Top SchoolOliver Walsh is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and automating cloud and infrastructure systems, currently driving engineering at Red Hat from Ireland. He specializes in IaaS and OpenStack-related automation, having improved deployment templates, network validation, and containerized live migration logic in notable projects like tripleo-heat-templates. His background spans private-cloud delivery at Fidelity, QA automation at Hitachi Data Systems, and deep engineering roles at ANSYS and others, giving him strong operational and reliability instincts. Oliver blends hands-on DevOps work with architectural thinking, routinely refactoring services for better maintainability and running production workloads in containers. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that harden deployments and streamline cloud operations.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Information Technology, BSc Information Technology at University of Galway
Github Skills (13)
ansible-galaxy10
automation10
automations10
docker10
openstack10
containerization10
dockers10
ansible10
yaml9
bash9
cicd8
jinja28
python8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
openstack-archive/tripleo-heat-templates
Jan 2017 - Aug 2022
Heat templates for deploying OpenStack
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:191 commits in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Oliver primarily contributed to the automation and infrastructure aspects of the OpenStack deployment templates. Their work included adding support for Jinja2 includes for template validation, refactoring the iscsi initiator-name reset into a separate service, and adding support for running crontabs in containers. They also improved the reliability of network validation scripts and the logic related to containerized live migration. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the deployment and management of OpenStack resources.
deployingheatopenshiftopenstack
olliewalsh/mariadb-operator
Jul 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:27 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 7 months
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