Scott Creeley
Manager, Software Engineering, Red Hat Office Of The CTO - Emerging Technologies
Village of Fredonia, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Creeley is a seasoned software engineering leader with over two decades of IT experience and more than a decade focused on cloud-native systems, currently managing emerging technologies for Red Hat’s Office of the CTO. He blends hands-on contributions to flagship open-source projects—such as validation and storage enhancements in the canonical Kubernetes API—with leadership in container, microservices, and Big Data ecosystems. A long-time Apache Ambari committer and former Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, he brings deep systems integration, database and application design skills to complex, production-grade environments. Based in Fredonia, NY, Scott bridges research and delivery, pairing rigorous test automation work (notably around KubeVirt data import) with architect-level strategy. His background at IBM and an advanced degree in Information Management underscore a pragmatic, enterprise-focused approach to evolving platform capabilities.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science, Bachelor's of Science at State University of New York - CortlandMaster of Information Management Sever School of Engineering and Applied Science, Master of Information Management Sever School of Engineering and Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Github Skills (16)
testing10
unit-testing10
kubernetes10
go10
api10
persistent-volumes10
validations10
kubernetes-apiserver10
validate10
qemu10
kubernetes-pods10
test-automation10
file-storage9
k8s9
data-storage9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kubevirt/containerized-data-importer
Mar 2018 - Sep 2018
Data Import Service for kubernetes, designed with kubevirt in mind.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:49 releases, 71 commits, 71 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily focused on improving and expanding the test suite for the project. Their commits reveal fixes to existing functional tests, specifically the QEMU tests. They also added new unit tests for the `file dataStream`, demonstrating a focus on testing different data import functionalities. Furthermore, the user added more test coverage to the qcow2 data format.
kubevirtvmskubernetesminddata-import
kubernetes/api
Aug 2016 - Nov 2017
The canonical location of the Kubernetes API definition.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the Kubernetes API definition, focusing on validation logic and related unit tests. Their work involved adding validation rules for PersistentVolume reclaim policies and the immutability of the storage class annotation in PersistentVolumeClaims. They also updated helper functions related to storage class annotations and introduced volume mode configurations, indicating a focus on improving storage management within the Kubernetes ecosystem.
apikubernetes-apilocationkubernetesdefinition
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