Robbie Young
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Canterbury, New Zealand
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Top SchoolRobbie Young is a Senior Software Engineer based in Canterbury, New Zealand, with 13 years of experience building reliable back-end systems and cloud-native infrastructure. Currently at Red Hat, he brings deep expertise in Kubernetes operators and Kafka, having contributed to the well-known Strimzi Kafka Operator—adding rack-awareness, improving readiness logic, and modernizing dependencies. His background spans long-term product development at Ströer Labs NZ and hands-on DevOps work, blending practical operator logic with deployment and affinity configuration skills. A Computer Science graduate from the University of Canterbury, Robbie combines production-grade engineering with a pragmatic focus on resilience and maintainability that surfaces in both code and operator design.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at University of Canterbury
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Github Skills (29)
kubernetes10
docker10
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kafka10
kubernetes-operator10
dockers10
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javas10
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devops10
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testing9
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Github contributions (5)
strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Apache Kafka® running on Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:42 reviews, 5 commits, 5 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Robbie contributed to the Strimzi Kafka Operator, primarily focusing on Kubernetes integration and operator logic. They added rack-awareness support for Kafka Bridge pods, which required changes to deployment configuration and affinity settings. Further work included addressing readiness checks and potential restart scenarios for Zookeeper and Kafka pods within the operator, as well as upgrading the Vertx dependency. These changes suggest expertise in both back-end development related to Kafka and DevOps practices for Kubernetes deployments.
kafka-streamsapache-kafkadcosdata-streamsdata-stream
robobario/kroxylicious
Dec 2022 - Apr 2025
Contributions:1 release, 4 reviews, 12 PRs in 2 years 4 months
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