Samir Jha
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolSamir Jha is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years of experience building and evolving cloud and systems-management software, currently leading feature development and lifecycle support at Red Hat in Raleigh. Trained at the National Institute of Engineering and NC State (MS CS, 4.0 GPA), he has a track record of moving on-premise applications to the cloud and was recognized as an MVP at Akamai for shaping technical roadmaps. A pragmatic full‑stack contributor, Samir has made notable open-source backend and full‑stack contributions to Foreman/Katello—improving sync, host lifecycle, and timezone/reporting correctness for a widely used provisioning ecosystem. He combines deep debugging and backend systems skills with UI and integration work, and brings a curiosity-driven approach to rediscovering low-level behavior across distributed platforms.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at The National Institute Of Engineering, MysoreHigh School Science, High School Science at St.Xavier's School, Bokaro Steel City
English
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Github Skills (26)
yum10
ruby-rails10
debug10
foreman10
back-end-development10
rails10
ruby10
architecture9
content-management-system9
infrastructure-management9
redhat9
configuration-management9
content-management9
architectures9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Katello/katello
Jun 2017 - Jan 2023
Katello integrates open source systems management tools into a single solution for controlling the lifecycle of your machines.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 929 reviews, 512 commits in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Samir was involved in fixing bugs and implementing enhancements related to the functionality of the Katello system. Their contributions included resolving issues with product deletion errors, internal server errors during package removal, and missing validation in the host collection copy page. The user also updated the system to handle situations where errata had no updated dates. Furthermore, the user improved the sync plan functionality. These modifications demonstrate their back-end development focus.
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theforeman/foreman
Oct 2019 - Dec 2022
an application that automates the lifecycle of servers
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 6 commits, 21 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Samir contributed to the Foreman project by fixing bugs, implementing new features, and improving the user interface. They addressed issues related to time zone handling in the application, implemented a new report template for subscription entitlements, and improved host group management functionality. The user also updated dependencies and corrected datetime input for report generation.
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