Ryan Jarvinen
Principal Developer Advocate
California, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Jarvinen is a Principal Developer Advocate with 17 years of experience helping developer communities adopt cloud-native and container technologies. Based in Rio Claro, he’s led developer relations at Red Hat and CoreOS and now brings that expertise to IBM Runtimes, combining hands-on engineering with platform evangelism. He’s an active open-source operator—maintaining learning portals like the OpenShift Katacoda labs, authoring platform engineering content, and running community training that onboarded hundreds to Kubernetes. A frequent conference speaker and book contributor, Ryan blends technical depth in DevOps tooling (odo, helm, kustomize) with strong program and content leadership. Notably, he launched top-ranked developer shows and training portals (openshift.tv, learn.openshift.com) that turned technical content into sustained community programs.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering Math Physics Philosophy Latin, Computer Engineering Math Physics Philosophy Latin at University of California, DavisCalifornia State University, SacramentoFolsom High School
Spanish
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Github Skills (23)
bash10
openshift10
yaml10
devops10
cicd9
helm9
docker8
automations8
automation8
kubernetes-pods8
dockers8
kubernetes8
kustomize7
tekton7
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
openshift-labs/learn-katacoda
Feb 2021 - Oct 2021
The OpenShift learning portal, powered by Katacoda
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:32 reviews, 116 commits, 62 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the setup and configuration of various tools and environments for the OpenShift learning portal. They updated installation scripts for tools like `odo`, `helm`, and `kustomize`. The user also managed dependencies, updated version numbers, and configured the build environment to support the latest versions of OpenShift and related technologies. Additionally, the user updated the footer, pipeline, and serverless configurations.
commonsopenshiftportalkuberneteslearning-portal
openshift-roadshow/nationalparks-js
Mar 2018 - Jan 2019
JS version of the National Parks web service
Contributions:19 commits, 3 PRs, 19 pushes in 10 months
nationalparksjavascriptnational-parksweb-service
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