Scott Dodson
Software Engineer at Red Hat
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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RockstarScott Dodson is a software engineer with 15 years of experience specializing in DevOps, automation, and release engineering for enterprise cloud platforms. Based in Raleigh, NC, he has been a core contributor to Red Hat's OpenShift efforts, focusing on build/release automation, packaging, and deployment orchestration while ramping into Go and Kubernetes for OpenShift 3. His open-source contributions to high-profile OpenShift repos include refactoring build scripts, optimizing container and SDN networking, and adding ansible roles for etcd, DNS, and proxy configurations. Scott is adept at untangling complex systems—bringing pragmatic fixes for build tools, RPM/versioning, and orchestration gaps that improve reliability for enterprise customers. Notably, he pairs hands-on engineering with deep operational insight, bridging Puppet/Satellite integrations and modern cloud-native tooling.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (24)
continuous-deployment10
kubernetes10
docker10
continuous-integration10
continuous-delivery10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
openshift10
kubernetes-pods10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
automations10
devops10
networking9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/openshift-ansible
Apr 2015 - Mar 2022
Install and config an OpenShift 3.x cluster
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 4459 commits, 3901 PRs in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Scott's contributions focused on configuring and maintaining the OpenShift Ansible deployment. They addressed bug fixes, implemented updates for OpenShift releases (RC2), and introduced an etcd role, including related networking configurations. The user also worked on setting up global proxy configurations, adding DNS support through the `openshift_node_dnsmasq` role, and configuring rate limiting.
ansibleopenshiftk8skubernetesconfig
openshift/origin
Jan 2015 - Sep 2022
Conformance test suite for OpenShift
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:1 review, 418 commits, 150 PRs in 7 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily focused on automating and improving the build and release processes for the OpenShift project. Their contributions included refactoring build scripts, modifying image build processes, and integrating systemd notifications for service startup. They also worked on configuring and managing docker network settings to optimize SDN configurations. Furthermore, the user addressed tito build issues and made changes to support versioning and RPM packaging.
containerscontinuous-deploymentcaaspaascontinuous-testing
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