Samuel Padgett
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Padgett is a Senior Principal Software Engineer and UI architect at Red Hat with 11+ years focused on OpenShift and Application Cloud, and a long history in enterprise tooling from a prior 16-year tenure at IBM. He blends front-end expertise in TypeScript/React with back-end API design, contributing notable fixes and features to the widely used OpenShift web console and API (including multi-port service handling, template creation, route deletion, and cluster configuration extensions). Samuel is experienced in shaping UX and platform configurability at scale, having generated protobufs and updated swagger/type definitions to enable cluster-specific settings and console extensions. Based in Raleigh and holding a BS in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis, he brings both deep product-level ownership and standards-minded engineering from his OSLC and tooling background. An observant problem-solver, he often focuses on edge cases—like None portalIP values and empty port arrays—that materially improve stability and developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Github Skills (22)
kubernetes10
javascript10
typescript10
go10
openshift10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
kubernetes-pods10
typescripts10
react10
css9
uid9
protobuffer9
protobuf9
html9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/console
Mar 2018 - Nov 2022
OpenShift Cluster Console UI
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3199 reviews, 1224 commits, 1125 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily contributed to the OpenShift Cluster Console UI project, focusing on front-end development. Their work involved implementing and modifying UI components using TypeScript and React, with changes in file names, UI updates, and code structure. The user also integrated new features and made adjustments to existing ones within the front-end codebase, and helped with the documentation of the project.
consoleopenshiftk8skubernetescluster
openshift/origin
Apr 2015 - Apr 2018
Conformance test suite for OpenShift
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 340 commits, 337 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily contributed to the web console's user interface and functionality by addressing bugs and implementing new features related to deployment services. These contributions included updating the project and browse service pages to handle multi-port services, handling 'None' portalIP values and empty ports arrays. The user also worked on fixing problems when creating from templates and for supporting deleting routes. The user also addressed UI defects relating to handling of logs and general project display.
containerscontinuous-deploymentcaaspaascontinuous-testing
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