Scott Seago
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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RockstarScott Seago is a Principal Software Engineer with 19 years of experience, currently based in Atlanta and driving backend and cloud infrastructure work at Red Hat. He brings deep expertise in OpenStack and Kubernetes ecosystems, contributing notable backend and UI fixes to ManageIQ and feature/bug work to the widely used Velero backup tool. His strengths include robust API design, thread-safe controller improvements, and pragmatic handling of cloud volume and restore workflows across distributed systems. Known for tackling tricky volume deletion and host-aggregate issues, he blends hands-on engineering with a systems-minded approach to reliability and maintainability. Colleagues rely on him to bridge DevOps and backend concerns, delivering durable solutions in complex cloud management platforms.
19 years of coding experience
Github Skills (22)
ruby-rails10
kubernetes10
plugin-development10
rails10
cloud-infrastructure10
infrastructure-management10
ruby10
backup10
infrastructure10
go10
openstack10
kubernetes-pods10
re-store10
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
vmware-tanzu/velero
Apr 2019 - Jan 2023
Backup and migrate Kubernetes applications and their persistent volumes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1066 reviews, 85 commits, 224 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the Velero project by implementing features related to backup and restore operations, specifically the handling of item blocks and plugins. They added support for skipping item restores via plugins, incorporated changes to include cluster resources like CRDs, and addressed bugs within the controller for async operations. Additionally, they made improvements to ensure thread safety and fixed issues related to the backup process, and overall plugin versioning.
velerovolumeskubernetes-applicationspersistent-volumesdata-protection
ManageIQ/manageiq
Jan 2015 - Jan 2019
ManageIQ Open-Source Management Platform
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 64 PRs, 141 comments in 4 years
Contributions summary:Scott primarily focused on enhancing the OpenStack cloud management platform. Their contributions involved implementing an API for maintenance mode and related refresh functionality, along with fixing several bugs pertaining to volume deletion. They also worked on UI improvements for attaching/detaching volumes and refactored code for Host Aggregate functionalities. These changes span across multiple modules like Cloud Volumes, Network Routers and VM Cloud, indicating a strong understanding of the platform's backend and core components.
gcporigamiopenshiftcephredfish
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