Cong Du
Principle Software Engineer at Red Hat
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCong Du is a Principal Software Engineer based in San Jose with over a decade of experience designing and delivering resilient storage and cloud-native systems. He has held senior engineering and tech-lead roles across Red Hat, StackRox, Rubrik, Arista and EMC, blending systems bring-up, hardware monitoring, and large-scale backend development. At StackRox he contributed to the Kubernetes security platform’s backend and tooling—improving policy-driven analysis and enhancing roxctl image scan output—showing a practical focus on observability and operator UX. His background spans low-level system reliability (fan/power/PCI monitoring and hotplug storage controllers) to cloud-native security, and he pairs deep academic training (Ph.D. in CS) with hands-on field support and upgrade experience. Colleagues rely on him to bridge hardware realities and software design, making complex platform behaviors predictable and maintainable.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Peking UniversityMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of SciencesPh.D, Computer Science, Ph.D, Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology
English, Chinese
Github Skills (15)
kubernetes10
go10
postgresql10
kubernetes-pods10
security9
data-migration9
databases8
database8
dockers7
cli7
command-line7
docker7
command-line-interface7
api6
apidoc6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
stackrox/stackrox
Oct 2020 - 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:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:566 reviews, 136 commits, 294 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Cong primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform by implementing new features related to container name-based policy criteria and removing the priority from the risk deployment filter. They also added CSV and pretty print formatting to the roxctl image scan output, enhancing the tool's usability. Furthermore, they made modifications to the database backup processes, adding certificate backup functionality and fixing an issue with the database restore format.
kubernetes-securitysecuritycontainersk8skubernetes
c-du/hello-world
Jun 2016 - Dec 2020
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Contributions:6 PRs, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 6 months
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