Robert Bost
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Bost is a Senior Software Engineer with 16 years of hands-on experience building and supporting cloud-native and middleware systems, currently focused on Red Hat OpenShift and containerized networking. He blends deep Kubernetes/OpenShift expertise with practical DevOps and backend skills, contributing to critical open-source projects like the OpenShift installer and machine-api-operator to improve vSphere integration and cluster provisioning. His work on tools such as ksniff shows attention to operational tooling—adding CRI-O support, robust cleanup, and resource safeguards for safer pod-level packet capture. At Red Hat he progressed from middleware support to senior engineering, pairing customer-facing troubleshooting with code-level fixes and test-driven quality improvements. Based in Denver, he brings a pragmatic balance of support-mode empathy and engineering rigor, often resolving subtle infrastructure bugs that cross the boundary between platform and virtualization layers.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Lincoln County School of TechnologyB.S, Computer Science, B.S, Computer Science at Appalachian State University
English
Github Skills (25)
kubernetes10
vsphere10
debug10
docker10
testing10
cloud-infrastructure10
vmware10
kubectl10
vmware-workstation10
containerization10
dockers10
terraform10
vmware-tools10
terraformer10
go10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
eldadru/ksniff
Aug 2020 - Aug 2022
Kubectl plugin to ease sniffing on kubernetes pods using tcpdump and wireshark
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Kubernetes Specialist
DevOps Engineer & Kubernetes SpecialistContributions:3 releases, 6 reviews, 19 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Robert focused on enhancing the ksniff tool by adding support for different container runtimes, including CRI-O. Their contributions involved modifying the privileged pod service to handle various container environments and incorporating features like resource limits and creation timeouts. They also implemented robust cleanup mechanisms for the privileged pods and Wireshark, and addressed usability issues around context and namespace handling, enhancing the tool's overall functionality and reliability.
sniffingkubectlwiresharkdebuggingkubernetes
openshift/installer
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022
Install an OpenShift 4.x cluster
Role in this project:Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:27 reviews, 9 commits, 12 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the vsphere infrastructure provisioning component of the OpenShift installer. Their work involved modifying the client creation logic for vSphere, including adding logout functionality. They implemented changes to use Managed Object IDs for networks and updated Terraform variable generation to leverage these IDs, improving network handling. Additionally, the user worked on validating vsphere configurations, integrating multi-zone support, and ensuring default values were set correctly within failure domain topology.
gcpvmsansiblelibvirtopenshift
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