Reid Wahl
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolReid Wahl is a Senior Software Engineer in Portland with eight years of experience building and maintaining high-availability cluster infrastructure for Red Hat, where he contributes to the Pacemaker cluster resource manager. He blends systems programming, DevOps, and hands-on support experience from large-scale environments at Walmart to diagnose and harden complex multi-OS deployments. An active open-source contributor, Reid has improved core automation tooling in projects like Ansible and implemented robust fence-agent functionality for ClusterLabs, showing deep knowledge of power-management protocols and cluster recovery. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic debugging, detailed logging improvements, and durable automation—skills informed by a rare mix of support pager duty, kernel-adjacent maintenance, and formal studies in computer science, math, German, and sociology.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Computer Science, 4.00, Mathematics and Computer Science, 4.00 at Portland State UniversityTransfer, Computer Science, 4.00, Transfer, Computer Science, 4.00 at Portland Community CollegeSociology and German, 3.96, Sociology and German, 3.96 at University of Arkansas
English, German
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Github Skills (26)
debugging10
debug10
python10
power-management10
automation10
ansible10
system-administration10
ansible-galaxy10
automations10
devops10
mc9
redfish8
documentation8
yaml8
ipmi8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ClusterLabs/fence-agents
Apr 2018 - Jan 2021
Fence agents
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 10 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Reid primarily contributed to the `fence-agents` project by implementing and improving various fence agents, which involves interacting with diverse hardware and protocols for power management. Their work included enhancing verbosity levels for debugging, fixing parsing errors, and addressing issues in agents like `fence_lpar` and `fence_ipmilan`. Additionally, they added new functionality, such as the diagnostic action in `fence_redfish`, and improved the robustness of the agents by capturing errors and improving logging. Their contributions demonstrate a strong understanding of system administration and infrastructure automation.
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ansible/ansible
Aug 2017 - Nov 2019
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:12 commits, 63 PRs, 266 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Reid primarily contributed to bug fixes, documentation updates, and code improvements within the Ansible automation platform. Their work involved addressing issues related to module functionality, Windows modules, and documentation errors. Specific changes included renaming functions, adding filename extensions for Vault, and resolving issues related to AIX and AWS autoscaling groups. This indicates a focus on both back-end code and supporting infrastructure.
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