Carl George
Principal Software Engineer And Team Lead at Red Hat
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorCarl George is a Principal Software Engineer and team lead based in San Antonio with 11 years of experience building and stewarding RPM packaging ecosystems for Fedora, EPEL, CentOS, and RHEL. A Linux enthusiast turned career specialist, he combines deep troubleshooting skills with a knack for automation—authoring tools like repomd, umirr, and CI plugins to streamline package build and mirror workflows. At Red Hat he led the early launch of EPEL 9, shaped packaging policy as a steering committee member, and mentored new packagers while resolving complex build breakages across major platform shifts. Known for pragmatic collaboration with upstream projects and clear technical documentation, he excels at turning community-driven open source ideals into reliable distribution pipelines. His background in the Army adds operational rigor and a history of leading high-stakes maintenance and network projects, which informs his calm, results-oriented leadership.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
English
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Github Skills (200)
yum10
command-line-interface10
ubuntu10
automation10
command-line-tool10
remote-execution10
apache-http-server10
rpm-spec10
system-status10
intel10
package-repository10
infrastructure-management10
api10
event-stream10
json10
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
iuscommunity-pkg/python32-setuptools
Aug 2014 - Nov 2016
Contributions:20 releases, 39 commits, 15 pushes in 2 years 3 months
iuscommunity-pkg/httpd24u-mod_proxy_uwsgi
Jun 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:7 releases, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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