Wesley Hearn
Senior Security And Compliance Engineer at Red Hat
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWesley Hearn is a Senior Security and Compliance Engineer based in Boston with 14 years of hands-on experience across Linux, DevOps, and cloud-native operations. Having grown through multiple engineering roles at Red Hat, he blends deep platform knowledge with practical automation skills, notably contributing to OpenShift tooling and Ansible playbooks that improve deployment, monitoring, and inventory workflows. A long-time GNU/Linux enthusiast and active community participant, he brings curiosity-driven learning to security and reliability problems, often exploring upstream fixes and registry/configuration improvements. His background in packaging for Fedora and early infrastructure roles informs a pragmatic approach to compliance that balances auditability with operational efficiency. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful, low-level troubleshooting as well as scalable automation that reduces human error in complex clusters.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Information Technology and Security, BS, Information Technology and Security at Campbell University
Github Skills (15)
ansible-galaxy10
automation10
automations10
openshift10
yaml10
ansible10
cicd9
python9
infrastructure-as-code9
monitoring9
docker8
bash8
dockers8
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/openshift-tools
May 2016 - Nov 2019
A public repository of scripts used by OpenShift Operations for various purposes
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:197 commits, 193 PRs, 117 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Wesley primarily contributed to the infrastructure and automation aspects of the OpenShift tools repository. Their commits focused on generating BYO (Bring Your Own) inventory files, including modifications to Ansible roles and templates. They added and modified scripts for monitoring, including the implementation of metrics and logging checks. Furthermore, the user made changes to the deployment configuration, specifically around customizing the installation.
openshift
openshift/openshift-ansible
Apr 2015 - Feb 2017
Install and config an OpenShift 3.x cluster
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:80 commits, 81 PRs, 59 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Wesley contributed to the `openshift/openshift-ansible` repository, primarily by modifying Ansible filter plugins. Their work included adding and then reverting a generic `set_attr` and `set_attrs` function, and making changes to the `oo_set_node_label` function. Further contributions included updates related to online deployments and the use of the official Red Hat registry, and also included modification to the kibana route configuration.
openshiftansible
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