Rom Freiman
Senior Director, Software Engineering at Red Hat
Israel
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Top SchoolRom Freiman is a seasoned software engineering leader with over 15 years of experience designing and delivering distributed, API-driven platforms and microservices at enterprise scale. Currently a Director of Software Engineering at Red Hat, he has a track record of turning complex reliability and scalability challenges into production-grade systems through hands-on architecture, team leadership, and rigorous execution. His background spans kernel-level innovations, building resilient service meshes for hundreds of containerized microservices, and leading R&D and integration across cloud-native stacks including Kubernetes, Docker, Consul, and CI/CD pipelines. Rom combines technical depth (Python, Go, systems programming) with product and operational sensibilities honed as a startup CTO and an IDF technical product manager. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer and Software Engineering and an MBA from Technion, reflecting a rare blend of engineering rigor and business acumen. Notably, his early work on optimized live migration and on-prem AWS-compatible platform services highlights a consistent focus on making cloud infrastructure both performant and enterprise-ready.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
M.B.A, Business Management, M.B.A, Business Management at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
English, Hebrew, Russian, Spanish
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Github Skills (200)
scheduling10
commons10
continuous-testing10
ecosystem10
api10
service-discovery10
vault10
runtime-configuration10
openshift10
assemble10
data-center10
docker-compose10
continuous-delivery10
rollout10
kubernetes10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Stratoscale/S3
Jul 2017 - Sep 2019
An open-source Node.js implementation of a server handling the Amazon S3 protocol
Contributions:99 commits, 2 PRs, 38 pushes in 2 years 1 month
node-jsamazonamazon-s3nodejshandling
Stratoscale/pycommonlog
Jan 2016 - Nov 2019
logging infrastructure for python programs
Contributions:4 commits, 9 PRs, 8 pushes in 3 years 11 months
pythonloggerinfrastructureloggingprograms
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