Oren Cohen
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolOren Cohen is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat with six years of professional software experience and a longer background in networking from the Israeli Air Force and Comm-IT. He designs and implements scalable, cloud-native infrastructure and automation, contributing to high-profile open-source projects like KubeVirt and the OpenShift installer where he focused on virtualization, SR-IOV support, and CI/CD robustness. Proficient in Python, Java, and C#, Oren blends backend engineering, DevOps automation, and QA improvements to reduce flakiness and streamline releases. He has a solid systems and security orientation informed by an electrical engineering degree from Technion and hands-on network engineering experience. Colleagues describe him as adaptable, a quick learner, and a pragmatic team player who tackles both enterprise systems and ad-hoc tooling. A less obvious strength is his knack for stabilizing test frameworks and release pipelines, which yields outsized reliability gains for large cloud projects.
6 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Electrical Engineering at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (36)
kubernetes10
github-ci10
docker10
testing10
kustomize10
bash10
cloud-infrastructure10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
go10
openshift10
aws10
ci-cd-pipeline10
build-automation10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
kubevirt/hyperconverged-cluster-operator
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
Operator pattern for managing multi-operator products
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:2 releases, 450 reviews, 116 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Oren primarily contributed to the automation and deployment aspects of the Kubevirt Hyperconverged Cluster Operator. Their work included implementing and refining CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions, creating release automation scripts, and improving the build and deployment processes. They also worked on integrating tools like Kustomize for deployment and improving the index image generation process. Furthermore, the user addressed build-manifests fixes, and added various functionalities for the publishing workflow.
hcohyperconvergedopenshiftoperatorvirtualization
openshift/release
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
Release tooling for OpenShift
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:99 reviews, 28 commits, 104 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Oren primarily focuses on automating and improving the CI/CD pipeline and testing infrastructure for the OpenShift release process. They address issues related to cloud provider unreliability, specifically shifting CI tests from Azure and GCP to AWS. The user introduces and modifies environment variables, creates service accounts with restricted permissions, and fixes workflow configurations, all while implementing temporary workarounds to address CRI-O and CNV permission issues. Their work also includes updating dependencies, and adapting to API changes in newer OCP versions.
continuous-deploymentkubernetesopenshifttooling
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