Sergey Shnaidman
Principal Engineer In Openshift at Red Hat
Israel
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Top SchoolSergey Shnaidman is a Principal Engineer based in Israel with over 15 years of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale CI/CD and bare-metal OpenShift/OpenStack environments at Red Hat. He blends deep DevOps and systems expertise—Ansible, Podman, Prometheus/Grafana—with engineering leadership running upstream Prow CI, telco5G testing, and lab automation for diverse hardware (Dell, HP). An active open-source contributor, Sergey has extended Ansible and Molecule with Podman support and helped migrate Podman modules into containers/ansible-podman-collections, improving container orchestration testing and workflows. Known for pragmatism under scale, he pairs low-level scripting and Python module work with strategic CI reliability improvements that keep tens of thousands of jobs running weekly.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Associate's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at ORT Colleges
English, Hebrew, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian
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Github Skills (33)
podman10
molecule10
kubernetes10
docker10
python10
scripting10
bash10
dockers10
containerization10
automation10
script10
openshift10
ci-cd-pipeline10
kubernetes-pods10
ansible10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
containers/ansible-podman-collections
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Repository for Ansible content that can include playbooks, roles, modules, and plugins for use with the Podman tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:191 reviews, 257 commits, 853 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Sergey primarily contributed to the migration of Podman modules from Ansible to the Containers project. This involved modifications to Python modules like `podman_image.py` and the introduction of new modules such as `podman_container.py` and `podman_network_info.py`. The user's work demonstrates expertise in containerization using Podman and integration with Ansible. Additionally, the user was involved in Github workflow integration.
containerscontainerdruncdevopscontainer-orchestration
ansible/molecule
Jun 2019 - Jun 2020
Molecule aids in the development and testing of Ansible content: collections, playbooks and roles
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 14 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Sergey primarily contributed to enhancing the `molecule` project's functionality and expanding its integration capabilities, particularly concerning containerization technologies. They added support for the `podman` driver, including necessary configuration and testing, alongside integrating it into the project's cookiecutter templates and functional tests. The user also addressed configuration issues within the GitLab CI configuration for improved usability and added support for root containers.
ansible-rolespythontesting-frameworktestingansible
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