Rob Lockwood-blake
Principal Software Engineer Tech Lead - Red Hat Smart Events
Hutton Cranswick, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRob Lockwood-blake is a Principal Software Engineer and Tech Lead at Red Hat with over a decade of hands-on experience building cloud-native applications for Kubernetes/OpenShift, specializing in Java and the Quarkus ecosystem. He has led globally distributed remote teams up to 10 engineers, launching managed services from concept to production—most recently Red Hat Smart Events, an Event-Driven Application platform that competes with major cloud event services. Rob combines deep platform-level engineering (operators, Knative, Kafka, ArgoCD, Tekton) with practical DevOps and SRE experience, including designing CI/CD pipelines and defining SLOs, error budgets and SOPs. He is fluent in translating business requirements into achievable technical roadmaps and routinely runs Agile ceremonies while mentoring engineers to deliver consistent, incremental value. His background includes founding a startup, migrating large Drupal estates to OpenShift, and architecting AWS production systems, reflecting a rare blend of startup grit and enterprise-scale delivery. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic architect who prioritizes repeatability and time-to-delivery while still remaining a hands-on coder.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc Internet Computing With Industrial Experience, Computing, Bsc Internet Computing With Industrial Experience, Computing at The University of HullMsc System Design for Internet Applications, Internet, Distributed Systems, Security, JEE, Msc System Design for Internet Applications, Internet, Distributed Systems, Security, JEE at Newcastle University
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Github Skills (95)
tooling10
python10
ssh10
commons10
kubernetes-cluster10
ansible10
cluster-manager10
continuous-deployment10
kubernetes10
redhat10
openshift10
documentation10
operator-sdk10
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Github contributions (5)
robpblake/sandbox
Sep 2021 - Feb 2023
Contributions:7 reviews, 2 PRs, 200 pushes in 1 year 5 months
robpblake/rosa
Sep 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:3 PRs, 226 pushes, 102 branches in 1 year 4 months
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