Roy Golan
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Raanana, Center District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolRoy Golan is a Principal Software Engineer with 14+ years specializing in cloud, virtualization and systems engineering, currently driving platform integrations at Red Hat from Raanana, Israel. He combines deep backend and DevOps expertise—demonstrated by notable OpenShift contributions such as adding oVirt support to the installer and machine-config-operator—with practical virtual machine management work in the VDSM project. Roy’s strengths lie in infrastructure automation, cloud-secret handling, networking configuration and platform-specific resource optimization, enabling smoother OpenShift deployments on oVirt. Long-tenured experience across Red Hat and Comverse gives him a pragmatic systems-integration mindset that balances API design, error handling and operational concerns. Not obviously visible from titles alone, he frequently operates at the intersection of installer tooling and hypervisor-specific platform plumbing, making him a go-to engineer for complex virtualization integrations.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Israel Jobs
Github Skills (24)
libvirt10
kubernetes10
system-configuration10
python10
apidoc10
server-configuration10
cloud-infrastructure10
terraform10
cicd10
ovirt10
terraformer10
go10
openshift10
api10
kubernetes-pods10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/machine-config-operator
May 2019 - May 2020
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 7 commits, 9 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Roy primarily focused on enhancing the machine-config-operator for different platforms within the OpenShift ecosystem. Their contributions included adding support for the oVirt platform, which involved creating necessary configuration files for DNS and API VIPs. Additionally, the user optimized resource allocation for static pods, specifically for ovirt, and adjusted the cloud config synchronization process by excluding the ovirt platform. These changes reflect a focus on platform-specific configuration and resource management within the Kubernetes cluster.
openshift/installer
Apr 2019 - Nov 2020
Install an OpenShift 4.x cluster
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:65 reviews, 42 commits, 23 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Roy primarily focused on implementing and integrating the oVirt platform within the OpenShift installer. Their contributions involved adding the oVirt platform, implementing destroy and gather functionalities. They also handled base image management, cloud secret storage for oVirt credentials, and configuration of networking aspects like VNIC profiles, demonstrating their expertise in integrating oVirt with the OpenShift installer and its associated infrastructure.
gcpvmsansiblelibvirtopenshift
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