Sorin Sbârnea
Principal Software Engineer(Team Lead) at Ansible by Red Hat
Norwich, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSorin Sbârnea is a Principal Software Engineer and team lead with 15+ years building developer tooling, CI/CD and automation platforms, currently leading DevTools at Ansible by Red Hat from Norwich. He blends deep systems skills in C/C++ and Python with a product-minded approach to internationalization, knowledge management and community-focused open source. Sorin has a strong track record modernizing build and packaging workflows (notably contributing to Ansible, Podman, Jenkins job builder and tox) and improving reliability across large-scale CI pipelines. Equally comfortable shipping code and shaping processes, he mentors teams to adopt DevOps culture and reproducible engineering practices. He holds advanced academic work on communities and crowdsourcing, which informs his emphasis on upstream collaboration and sustainable open-source contribution.
15 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Colegiul National Cantemir VodaAcademia de Studii Economice Bucuresti
English, Romanian, French, Italian
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Github Skills (94)
postgresql10
python10
testing10
test-framework10
bash10
cookiecutter10
e-mail10
automation10
build-automation10
pip10
ansible-galaxy10
pip-tools10
internationalization10
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Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
cookiecutter/cookiecutter
Jul 2019 - Sep 2022
A cross-platform command-line utility that creates projects from cookiecutters (project templates), e.g. Python package projects, C projects.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Technical Writer
DevOps Engineer & Technical WriterContributions:1 release, 21 reviews, 26 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Sorin's contributions focused on improving the project's testing, documentation, and build processes. They enabled and configured linting rules to improve code quality and ensure adherence to style guides. They also updated documentation to remove legacy references and streamlined the build process by adopting setuptools-scm for versioning. This work directly improved the maintainability and quality of the codebase.
cliproject-templatespythoncommand-line-utilitydeveloper-tools
openstack-infra/jenkins-job-builder
Nov 2016 - Oct 2018
MOVED: Now at https://opendev.org/jjb/jenkins-job-builder
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:28 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Sorin primarily contributed to improving the project's infrastructure and build processes. They removed deprecation warnings and enabled Python 3.5 compatibility within the testing environment. Additionally, the user implemented support for multiple Jenkins servers and introduced features like printing job URLs for easier tracking. They also improved test resiliency and automated various aspects of the build and deployment pipeline.
jenkinsjenkins-jobbuilderopendevjob
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