Shirly Radco
Observability Technical Team Lead at Red Hat
Israel
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Top SchoolShirly Radco is an observability technical team lead at Red Hat with 12 years of experience building data-driven monitoring and alerting for virtualization and Kubernetes ecosystems. She leads observability for the OpenShift Virtualization operator, driving standards across Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch and Loki while mentoring engineers and planning release roadmaps. Her background as a principal data engineer and longtime maintainer of oVirt metrics and DWH work gives her deep expertise in real-time and historical monitoring, database schema design, and production telemetry. She contributes to notable open-source projects like KubeVirt and oVirt, improving Prometheus rules, alerts, and historical reporting that directly enhance operational health. People-focused and transparent by practice, she pairs visionary strategy with hands-on implementation to push cross-organizational observability improvements. Based in Israel, she brings a rare blend of ops, backend, and data engineering experience with a growing interest in applying AI/ML to observability challenges.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc Industrial Engineering and Managment, B.Sc Industrial Engineering and Managment at Tel Aviv University
English, Hebrew
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Github Skills (21)
monitoring10
kubernetes10
postgresql10
data-warehouse10
alertdialog10
alertview10
schema-design10
alerts10
go10
prometheus10
sql10
database-design10
db-schema10
virtualization10
kubernetes-pods10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
kubevirt/kubevirt
Apr 2021 - Dec 2022
Kubernetes Virtualization API and runtime in order to define and manage virtual machines.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:154 reviews, 20 commits, 28 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Shirly primarily contributed to the KubeVirt project by modifying Prometheus rules and alerts. Their work included adding severity labels, runbook URLs, and updating alert names, improving the monitoring and alerting capabilities. They also addressed issues related to memory usage and VM status by updating existing metrics and alerts, reflecting a focus on system health and operational improvements. Furthermore, the user updated documentation and metric types related to VM snapshotting, contributing to the project's observability.
apivmsmachineslibvirtruntime
oVirt/ovirt-engine
Jan 2014 - Sep 2019
The oVirt Engine virtualization manager
Role in this project:Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:57 commits, 1 comment in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Shirly primarily focused on database schema modifications and updates related to data warehousing within the oVirt project. Their contributions involved adding and modifying views to expose specific data, altering column types and names, and adding new columns to existing tables. The changes focused on improving data collection and reporting capabilities for the virtualization management platform, especially within the context of historical data. This included adding and updating various history views for different components.
defoldlibvirtovirtvirtualizationovirt-engine
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