Simon Baird
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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RockstarSimon Baird is a Principal Software Engineer with 19 years of experience building resilient web and infrastructure tooling, currently leading PnT DevOps efforts at Red Hat from Boston. He blends deep Ruby on Rails and JavaScript expertise with hands-on DevOps skills—Ansible, Argo CD/GitOps, Tekton—and is actively expanding into Go and Kubernetes. At Red Hat he drives CI/CD and supply chain security automation, contributing to projects like redhat-appstudio infra-deployments and enterprise contract pipelines. A long-time open-source contributor and former TiddlyWiki hacker, he balances QA/test automation sensibilities with scripting and systems thinking to improve reliability. He mentors teams, shapes strategic technical direction, and still builds side projects such as Tiddlyhost.com, reflecting a practical hacker’s curiosity beyond corporate engineering.
19 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (27)
kubernetes10
javascript10
scripting10
testing10
tekton10
bash10
cicd10
argocd10
gitops10
automation10
script10
openshift10
kubernetes-pods10
tiddlywiki10
sh10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
konflux-ci/build-definitions
Mar 2022 - Aug 2022
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:194 reviews, 42 commits, 68 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributes to the automation and configuration of the enterprise contract build and verification process. They implemented and refined scripts for fetching data related to pipeline runs, managing policy downloads, and orchestrating tests. The user also focused on improving the task execution flow, including updating the `start-ec-task.sh` script and integrating the Enterprise Contract task with the CI/CD system. Additionally, the user demonstrates skills in testing and scripting using bash and shellspec.
redhat-appstudio/infra-deployments
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
This repository is an initial set of Argo-CD-based deployments of AppStudio components to a cluster, plus a script to bootstrap Argo CD onto that cluster (to drive these Argo-CD-based deployments, via OpenShift GitOps).
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:135 reviews, 65 commits, 62 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the automation and configuration of the `redhat-appstudio/infra-deployments` repository, which is focused on deploying AppStudio components using Argo CD. Their work includes developing Bash scripts to verify Tekton Chains signed task runs, adding features like a quiet mode, and creating scripts to verify all tasks in a pipeline run. Furthermore, they integrated GitOps configurations for chains and made modifications to the bootstrap cluster scripts, demonstrating a focus on infrastructure and CI/CD pipeline automation.
argocdopenshiftkubernetesdeploymentscluster
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