Scott Belz
Senior Solutions Architect - SLED at Red Hat
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Belz is a Senior Solutions Architect at Red Hat with over two decades of experience translating public sector and enterprise needs into pragmatic, open-source-driven solutions across RHEL, OpenShift, virtualization, and Ansible. Based in Seattle, he brings 14 years of focused systems and pre-sales engineering experience at companies like Dell EMC and Brocade, plus deep hands-on roots in implementation, support, and customer service. Scott contributes to open source UX and docs—improving usability in the Eucalyptus cloud console and clarifying networking modules in Ansible—highlighting a rare blend of front-end empathy and technical writing. Known for building strong customer partnerships, he excels at turning complex requirements into deployable architectures while keeping usability and automation front of mind.
14 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Marketing, Bachelors of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Marketing at Pacific Union College
Github Skills (14)
html10
ansible-galaxy10
user-interface10
tooltips10
ui-design10
interface-design10
tooltip10
documentation10
ansible10
networking9
user-experience9
exp9
yaml5
javascript4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible
May 2016 - May 2018
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:166 commits, 404 PRs, 305 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Scott's contributions focused on enhancing the documentation for the Ansible project, specifically concerning networking modules. Their work included creating introductory material, adding installation instructions, and expanding the section on conditional statements within the documentation. Further improvements involved fixing typos, refining grammar, and adjusting formatting to improve readability and clarity of the documentation.
ansibleautomationnetwork-configurationsshpython
eucalyptus/eucalyptus
Aug 2012 - Aug 2013
Eucalyptus Cloud-computing Platform
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:93 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Scott's commits primarily involve modifications to HTML help files and the addition of tooltips within the Eucalyptus console interface. Their work focused on enhancing the user experience by providing context-sensitive guidance and improving usability within the console's various dialogs. These changes span across multiple areas of the console, demonstrating a contribution to the overall front-end design. The user also added and modified tooltips within launch configuration and autoscaling groups to ensure that they are providing useful hints to the user.
cloud-computing
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