Bryan Jones
Staff Software Engineer at RAPIDFORT
Detroit Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBryan Jones is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native, containerized platforms at enterprise scale. He combines production-hardened Go development with deep distributed-systems and Kubernetes expertise, having built autonomous microservices that patch over 10,000 IBM Cloud OpenShift clusters and maintain a 99.995% SLA across global regions. Bryan led large-scale migrations to RedHat HyperShift and created tooling — including a validated etcdctl CLI and automated node remediation — that materially reduced operational risk and data-loss exposure. His open-source contributions extend to OpenStack Heat, where he implemented Keystone-related resources and LBaaS improvements, reflecting a long-standing engagement with orchestration ecosystems. Based in Detroit, he excels in high-pressure, security-sensitive environments where reliability, automation, and pragmatic engineering drive measurable platform improvements.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE), Computer Science at University of Michigan
English
Github Skills (15)
service-provider10
openstack10
keystone10
service-design10
openstack-heat10
python10
heat10
api-design9
restful-api9
apidoc9
openstack-neutron9
n9
rest-api9
api9
api-rest9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/heat
Jul 2015 - Feb 2016
OpenStack Orchestration (Heat). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Bryan focused on enhancing the OpenStack Heat orchestration service, implementing custom constraints and resources related to Keystone (OpenStack's identity service). They added functionality to allow roles to be assigned to existing Keystone users and groups, introducing new resources for user and group role assignments. The commits also included refactoring and consolidation of keystone-related code, and the addition of LBaaS v2 resources, demonstrating work across multiple areas of the Heat project.
openstack
jonesbr17/release
Jul 2021 - May 2025
Release tooling for OpenShift
Contributions:39 pushes, 52 branches in 3 years 10 months
kubernetesopenshifttooling
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