Philip Gough
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Waterford, Munster, Ireland
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Top SchoolPhilip Gough is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native, server-side systems and observability tooling, currently contributing to Red Hat's 3scale and Observability teams. He specializes in Golang, Python, Kubernetes/OpenShift and AWS, and has a proven track record improving Prometheus/Thanos ecosystems—adding features, flags, e2e tests and operational fixes to widely used CNCF projects. Comfortable bridging DevOps and backend development, he focuses on automation, networking and distributed systems while prioritizing security and run-as configurations in production. Philip's background ranges from migrating SaaS to Kubernetes to refining long-term storage and alerting for large-scale monitoring stacks, reflecting both deep technical chops and strong communication-driven teamwork. Notably, his contributions to prometheus-operator and Thanos show an emphasis on operational resilience and observability at scale.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
De La Salle Waterford IrelandBSc (Hons) in Applied Computing and Networking, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Networking, Cloud Comuting, First class honours 1.1, BSc (Hons) in Applied Computing and Networking, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Networking, Cloud Comuting, First class honours 1.1 at Waterford Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (39)
monitoring10
kubernetes10
docker10
testing10
alertdialog10
alertifyjs10
kubernetes-operator10
alertview10
grafana10
network-monitoring10
alerts10
dockers10
cicd10
system-monitoring10
cnc10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator
Jun 2021 - Nov 2022
Prometheus Operator creates/configures/manages Prometheus clusters atop Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 releases, 497 reviews, 141 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Philip primarily contributed to the Prometheus Operator's core functionality by implementing features and addressing issues related to the management and configuration of Prometheus clusters within Kubernetes. Their work involved adding and modifying flags, configurations, and CRD definitions, particularly focusing on enhancements to Thanos and Alertmanager deployments. Additionally, the user contributed to the testing and documentation of these changes, demonstrating a good understanding of the project's codebase and operational aspects. This includes adding e2e tests for the new functionality.
clustersoperatorprometheus-operatorkubernetesatop
openshift/cluster-monitoring-operator
Jun 2021 - Feb 2022
Manage the OpenShift monitoring stack
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:99 reviews, 99 commits, 62 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Philip contributed to the automation and configuration of the OpenShift monitoring stack. Their work involved modifying and adding new tests for user-facing configuration within the cluster monitor. They also addressed and improved the alerting rules, including updating expressions and adding descriptions, while also optimizing the infrastructure by switching to HTTP probes and updating rules. Furthermore, the user created and modified manifests and ensured proper configuration for the Prometheus rule.
monitoringkubernetesgrafanaopenshift
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