Paul Weil
Senior Manager And Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, United States
Summary
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RockstarPaul Weil is a Senior Manager and Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience leading and scaling engineering teams at Red Hat, specializing in OpenShift, Kubernetes, and cloud-native platforms. He blends hands-on backend contributions to high-profile open source projects (notably routing and API work in OpenShift and Kubernetes) with organizational leadership—bootstrapping teams, mentoring new managers, and standardizing promotion and hiring processes across distributed teams. His background ranges from architecting SaaS and scheduling systems to building low-latency financial trading infrastructure, giving him rare fluency across product, operations, and platform engineering. Comfortable shifting between individual contributor and manager roles, he drives cross-functional collaboration with PM, QE, docs, and support to deliver customer-focused, multi-cluster and hybrid cloud solutions. A detail-oriented engineer, he has improved code quality through testing and refactoring while contributing to canonical API definitions and upstream OpenShift routing fixes.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (14)
url-routing10
kubernetes10
go10
openshift10
api10
apidoc10
api-design10
kubernetes-pods10
testing10
architecture9
architectures9
etcd9
container9
code-generation8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/origin
Nov 2014 - Sep 2017
Conformance test suite for OpenShift
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:207 commits, 240 PRs, 1 push in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily worked on implementing and fixing issues related to routing within the OpenShift origin repository. They addressed route watch issues, focusing on 404 and 500 errors, and improved code quality through unit testing and code formatting. Their contributions included modifying the etcd registry for route management and adding test cases. The user also added route-related features.
containerscontinuous-deploymentcaaspaascontinuous-testing
kubernetes/api
May 2015 - Aug 2016
The canonical location of the Kubernetes API definition.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the core Kubernetes API definition, focusing on internal conversions and type definitions. Their commits involved refactoring and adding new features to the API, specifically related to security contexts and pod configurations. The user also worked on removing deprecated fields and updating default values within the API, demonstrating a focus on code maintainability and alignment with Kubernetes' evolving specifications. They touched multiple files including `pkg/api/v1/conversion_generated.go` and `pkg/api/v1beta3/defaults.go`, suggesting a deep understanding of the API structure.
apikubernetes-apilocationkubernetesdefinition
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