Ygal Blum
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolYgal Blum is a Senior Principal Software Engineer based in Old Toronto with 10+ years of hands-on experience building cloud-native and embedded systems across startups and large enterprises. Now at Red Hat, he combines deep backend and DevOps expertise with product-facing architecture, having previously led technical teams at CTERA, Stratoscale, and in automotive infotainment roles. He is an active open-source contributor to the high-profile Podman project, adding Kubernetes volume, secret handling, and tar import functionality that bridges container and Kubernetes workflows. Ygal’s background blends computer science with an MSc in Management–Finance, enabling him to make pragmatic tradeoffs between technical design and business impact. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic architect who moves quickly from proof-of-concept to production-grade features while mentoring teams through complex integrations.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MSC Management - Finance, MSC Management - Finance at Tel Aviv UniversityAlians High School
English, Hebrew, French, Turkish
Github Skills (15)
occi10
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
go10
dockers10
kubernetes-pods10
testing9
apidoc9
api9
systemd9
shell8
script8
sh8
scripting8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
podman-container-tools/podman
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:424 reviews, 24 commits, 97 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Ygal primarily contributed to the Podman project by implementing features related to Kubernetes integration, specifically focusing on handling PersistentVolumeClaims and SecretVolumeSource. They added support for importing content from tar files into volumes, along with the ability to define volume options through Kubernetes annotations. Additionally, the user made enhancements to the Quadlet tool to support .kube files for Kubernetes integration and .image files. They also made changes to the API and bindings to facilitate the new features implemented.
oci-containerpodmancontainersdockerkubernetes
containers/appstore
Jun 2023 - Aug 2025
Example directory of Kubernetes YAML and Quadlets tested with Podman
Contributions:31 reviews, 9 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 2 months
kubernetespodmanyaml
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