Tom Martensen
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany
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Top SchoolTom Martensen is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience specializing in infrastructure, automation, and cloud-native reliability engineering. Currently at Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security, he focuses on automating CI/CD and release processes and improving Kubernetes security and deployments. His background in SRE roles at Data4Life and contributions to the prominent StackRox Kubernetes security platform highlight a practical strength in pipeline automation, Terraform/OpenStack operations, and incident management. Tom combines strong academic training from the Hasso Plattner Institute and Blekinge Institute of Technology with hands-on improvements that turned months-long infrastructure replacements into week-long exercises. He’s equally comfortable scripting release verification and integrating vulnerability scanning as he is leading observability and resilience practices. Known for pragmatic automation, he often finds efficiency gains that aren’t obvious until delivered.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science IT Systems Engineering, Master of Science IT Systems Engineering at Hasso Plattner InstituteMaster of Science - MS Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS Software Engineering at Blekinge Institute of Technology
German, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (15)
kubernetes10
automation10
github-ci10
automations10
bash10
githubaction-workflow10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
security9
container9
go9
release-management9
docker8
dockers8
python7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
stackrox/stackrox
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
The StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform performs a risk analysis of the container environment, delivers visibility and runtime alerts, and provides recommendations to proactively improve security by hardening the environment.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:618 reviews, 29 commits, 428 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily focused on improving the project's CI/CD pipelines and release automation using GitHub Actions. Their contributions included modifying scripts for release note generation, Jira issue checks, and release verification. They also worked on setting up infrastructure and managing the automation of build and deployment processes. Their work also shows enhancements to the deployment process and preparing for upgrade tests.
containerscheckliststackroxsecurityrisk
stackrox/openshift-release
Jan 2023 - Mar 2025
Release tooling for OpenShift
Contributions:105 pushes, 67 branches in 2 years 2 months
kubernetesopenshifttooling
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