Drew Anderson
Associate Manager, Site Reliability Engineering
Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolDrew Anderson is an experienced Site Reliability and software engineer with 11+ years building high-performance, secure, and scalable systems across NZ, UK, Australia, Germany and France, now managing SRE at Red Hat. He is fluent across cloud-native stacks—Golang, Python, Kubernetes/OpenShift, Prometheus and AWS/GCP/Azure—and has driven production services serving millions with strong emphasis on performance, optimization and reliability. Drew’s background spans hands-on backend and DevOps contributions to prominent OpenShift projects (including Azure/ARO-RP and openshift-tools), demonstrating deep operational engineering and maintainability instincts. He pairs architecture and mentoring skills with practical systems work—from database tuning that unlocked 10x MySQL performance for live game services to building resilient deployment pipelines and monitoring integrations. Outside work he volunteers in marine rescue and actively follows renewable tech and EV markets as a private investor, reflecting pragmatic risk-taking and community commitment.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer and Information Sciences, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Computer and Information Sciences, Software Engineering at Auckland University of Technology
English
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Github Skills (31)
monitoring10
kubernetes10
docker10
scripting10
bash10
dockers10
automation10
script10
go10
openshift10
kubernetes-pods10
ansible10
sh10
ansible-galaxy10
automations10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/openshift-tools
Jul 2016 - Nov 2019
A public repository of scripts used by OpenShift Operations for various purposes
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:267 commits, 261 PRs, 160 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Drew primarily contributed to the automation and configuration of the OpenShift environment. Their work involved creating scripts for container build fingerprinting and modifying build scripts for host monitoring. The user also implemented enhancements to the monitoring infrastructure by adding a webhook script for Zabbix alerts and adjusting configurations to manage resources effectively. Their efforts also encompassed updating cron jobs and file lock mechanisms.
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Azure/ARO-RP
Apr 2021 - Oct 2021
Azure Red Hat OpenShift RP
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:55 reviews, 37 commits, 8 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Drew primarily contributed to the infrastructure and configuration of the Azure Red Hat OpenShift RP project. Their work included enabling extensions for Kubernetes, specifically `apiextensions-apiserver`, and updating controller tools dependencies. They also implemented a machine config pool monitor, incorporating metrics related to unmanaged nodes. The user made further changes to align with PR feedback, demonstrating a focus on maintainability and proper DevOps practices.
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