Steven Tobin
Senior Software Engineer Team Lead at Red Hat
Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Tobin is a Senior Software Engineer Team Lead at Red Hat with a decade of experience building cloud-native platforms and operational tooling, currently focusing on the Red Hat OpenShift AI platform. He blends hands-on backend and DevOps skills—evidenced by contributions to the widely used grafana-operator, where he improved JSON validation, plugin versioning and datasource reliability—with leadership in delivering production-grade OpenShift services. His career progression from cloud operations and intern roles into engineering leadership reflects deep operational empathy and a strong automation mindset. Based in Ireland with a BSc in Computer Forensics and Security, he brings a pragmatic, security-aware approach to scalable platform engineering and a knack for spotting subtle data-integrity issues before they reach production.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
PLC Performing Arts: Music, PLC Performing Arts: Music at Enniscorthy Vocational CollegeBusiness administration, Business Administration, Business administration, Business Administration at Bellefield VTOSBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Forensics and Security, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Forensics and Security at Waterford Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (12)
kubernetes10
go10
grafana10
kubernetes-pods10
golang9
kubernetes-operator9
json9
monitoring8
operator8
openshift7
docker6
dockers6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/grafana-operator
Jul 2019 - Nov 2019
An operator for Grafana that installs and manages Grafana instances, Dashboards and Datasources through Kubernetes/OpenShift CRs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Steven primarily focused on enhancing the `grafana-operator`'s core functionality and operational aspects. They implemented error handling and validation for JSON configurations within Grafana dashboards, addressing potential data integrity issues. Furthermore, the user made critical modifications to the plugin installation process, incorporating version checks and status updates. Finally, the user made adjustments to configuration and dependency management as well as added in improvements to the datasource.
observabilityopenshiftoperatorgrafanaprometheus
StevenTobin/integreatly-operator
Feb 2020 - Aug 2020
A Kubernetes Operator based on the Operator SDK for installing and reconciling Integreatly services
Contributions:1 PR, 89 pushes, 18 branches in 6 months
operator-sdkinstallingk8s-operatoroperatorsdk
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