Stephen Goeddel
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Goeddel is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating CI/CD and cloud-native systems, currently maintaining OpenShift's Prow-based CI at Red Hat. He brings full-stack roots—from early Django web apps to large Java-based service migrations—and deep DevOps expertise demonstrated by contributions to high-profile projects like Kubernetes test-infra and OpenShift release tooling. Stephen excels at scripting, release validation, and automating GitHub workflows, and has helped manage build cluster failover, monitoring, and vault configurations for production reliability. A Charleston-based engineer with a 4.0 CS master's from College of Charleston, he pairs academic rigor with practical, production-focused problem solving and maintains a personal portfolio of web projects.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, CSIS with Computer Science Specialization, 4.0, Master’s Degree, CSIS with Computer Science Specialization, 4.0 at College of CharlestonBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 3.62, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 3.62 at Utah Tech UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Rocky Mountain College
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Github Skills (35)
kubernetes10
scripting10
testing10
alertdialog10
alertifyjs10
bash10
alertview10
alerts10
cicd10
automation10
script10
go10
openshift10
github-api10
kubernetes-pods10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/release
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Release tooling for OpenShift
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:116 reviews, 200 commits, 491 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to the release tooling and CI/CD infrastructure for OpenShift. Their work involved creating and modifying scripts for automated tasks such as checking GitHub automation, managing job configurations, and adjusting release controllers. They also made changes to the monitoring and alerting configurations, demonstrating expertise in the deployment and operation of OpenShift. Additionally, the user was involved in managing the failover of build clusters, and updating vault configurations.
continuous-deploymentkubernetesopenshifttooling
openshift/ci-tools
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
DPTP Tooling
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:350 reviews, 138 commits, 317 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Stephen's commits primarily revolve around validating release specifications, scripting for easier testing and debugging, and fixing validation issues. They demonstrated proficiency in shell scripting, as evidenced by the creation of scripts for various testing and build processes. Furthermore, the user's contributions extend to validating the release and tag specifications, indicating a focus on backend and potentially infrastructure-related configurations within the CI/CD workflow. They also contributed to improvements to existing CI/CD jobs.
continuous-testingopenshifttoolingcontinuous-integration
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