Dusty Mabe
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolDusty Mabe is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 13 years building cloud-native platforms and enabling container technologies for next-generation datacenters and the public cloud. At Red Hat he led efforts to merge Atomic Host and Container Linux into Fedora CoreOS and has driven multi-cloud, multi-architecture CI/CD and release practices that underpin OpenShift. A pragmatic systems engineer, he contributes to high-profile open source projects such as kompose, ignition, dracut and vagrant—often tackling early-boot, networking and cloud integration edge cases that most avoid. His background spans telecom-grade Linux platforms, platform consulting for financial services, and hands-on work with cloud-init, OSTree and image build tooling. Based in Winston-Salem, he combines deep kernel-to-cloud expertise with a knack for improving reproducible builds and installer behavior in complex deployment environments.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering & Electrical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering & Electrical Engineering at North Carolina State University
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Github Skills (65)
fedora-coreos10
python10
testing10
bash10
ruby10
rhel10
system10
automation10
ci-cd-pipeline10
build-automation10
boot10
systemd10
ansible-galaxy10
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Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
coreos/coreos-assembler
Jul 2018 - Dec 2022
Tooling container to assemble CoreOS-like systems
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 1570 reviews, 559 commits in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Dusty primarily focused on modifying and maintaining the build process and infrastructure for the `coreos/coreos-assembler` repository. Their contributions included refactoring the build script, breaking down the build process into distinct steps for improved caching, and modifying various scripts. The user implemented functionality for setting up cloud resources. Additionally, the user added support for specifying the architecture of the image, and handling various openstack related configuration and deployment tasks.
coreosbuildsystemfedora
coreos/fedora-coreos-config
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
Base configuration for Fedora CoreOS
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2156 reviews, 682 commits, 2101 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Dusty primarily contributes to the infrastructure and configuration aspects of Fedora CoreOS. Their commits involve modifying dracut modules for network configuration, including support for live ISO environments and handling network settings during the boot process. They also add tests to verify network functionality in various scenarios, and handle updates and adjustments to improve the user experience, ensuring correct behavior related to coreos-installer and cloud environments. The user also added testing to show the correct behaviour related to persistent network configuration.
fedora-coreos
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