Robert Mcallister
Sr. Consultant at Red Hat
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Mcallister is a seasoned senior consultant and cloud infrastructure engineer with over 8 years focused on Linux, UNIX, OpenStack, and automation tooling such as Ansible and OpenShift. Based in Scottsdale, he brings deep hands-on experience hardening and automating cloud platforms—evidenced by contributions to the ComplianceAsCode/content project where he worked on security automation for Red Hat OpenStack Platform and STIG/CIS profiles. His background spans major enterprises including Red Hat, CVS Health, and eBay, where he operated and troubleshot multi-datacenter OpenStack deployments and built repeatable automation for provisioning and compliance. Known for bridging infrastructure, security, and operations, he also has long experience with storage and configuration management dating back to large-scale roles at Avaya and Lucent. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he combines low-level systems knowledge with policy-driven automation to deliver auditable, production-ready cloud environments.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Regis UniversityPhysics, Physics at University of Maryland
Github Skills (13)
security10
compliance10
ansible-galaxy10
security-hardening10
bash10
openstack10
security-automation10
security-policy10
ansible10
xslt9
cap9
sca9
openscap9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ComplianceAsCode/content
Oct 2019 - Nov 2019
Security automation content in SCAP, Bash, Ansible, and other formats
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:54 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributes to security automation content, specifically for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (RHOSP10). Their work involves adding and modifying XSLT transforms and Python constants related to security profiles (STIGs and CIS), and OpenStack platform configurations. The user also makes updates to Bash scripts, modifying permissions of Cinder configuration files. This suggests a focus on hardening and compliance within the OpenStack environment.
ansiblebashsecurity-automationsecuritycompliance
redhat-rmcallis/linux
Apr 2023 - Apr 2023
Linux kernel source tree
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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