Eric Fried
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Hot Springs, Arkansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Fried is a Principal Software Engineer based in Texas with over two decades of systems and cloud engineering experience and nine years of focused experience in modern cloud-native and OpenStack development. Currently at Red Hat after leading upstream Nova development at Intel and IBM, he blends deep architecture and hands-on coding expertise across Python, Java, C, Perl, and shell scripting. He’s known for driving reliable compute and virtualization subsystems—earning Nova core maintainer status and pragmatic awards for problem-solving—while also improving CI/CD and release tooling for OpenShift. Eric contributes to prominent open-source projects such as OpenShift Hive and Kubernetes-related drivers, where he enhances observability, test robustness, and operational automation. Comfortable across the full stack from kernel and hypervisor integration to cloud APIs and DevOps, he is equally effective writing production code, tests, and clear documentation. A practical lifelong learner, he routinely digs into unfamiliar tech to deliver measurable operational improvements.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
French, English
Github Skills (27)
kubernetes10
docker10
cloud-computing10
testing10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
script10
go10
openshift10
aws10
kubernetes-pods10
automations10
csi10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/hive
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
API driven OpenShift cluster provisioning and management
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1341 reviews, 277 commits, 733 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Eric's commits focused on enhancing the operational aspects of the OpenShift Hive project. They restored a critical metric for tracking the reconcile duration within the syncset controller, contributing to monitoring and performance analysis. The user also addressed code quality issues in the 'hiveutil create-cluster' command. Furthermore, the user contributed to the project's test suite by addressing a variety of issues, especially those regarding Kubernetes clients.
openshiftprovisioning
openshift/release
May 2020 - Dec 2022
Release tooling for OpenShift
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:84 reviews, 106 commits, 202 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the automation and configuration of the OpenShift release tooling, particularly focused on Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) workflows. Their work involved modifying scripts to handle environment-specific configurations, especially concerning AWS C2S/SC2S deployments and setting up proxy configurations. Key changes included defaulting environment variables, adjusting code for spot instances, and updating scripts related to security scanning with Snyk.
openshift
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