Gursewak Mangat
Software Engineer at Red Hat
Area F (McConnell Creek/Hatzic Prairie), British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolGursewak Mangat is a software engineer at Red Hat with nine years of experience specializing in cloud-native images and infrastructure, currently focused on Fedora CoreOS and RHEL CoreOS stability and performance. He combines hands-on CI/CD and cloud automation on AWS/GCP with deep testing and QA expertise, contributing to prominent open-source projects like coreos-assembler and fedora-coreos-config where he improved build systems, testing infrastructure, and reliability. Past roles span embedded networking, deep-learning-enabled camera software, and full-stack web development, giving him a broad systems-to-application perspective. Known for pragmatic automation—such as garbage collection for AMIs and snapshot management—he reduces operational cost and toil while improving release reliability. Based in British Columbia and trained at the University of Victoria, he brings a detail-oriented, test-first mindset that surfaces subtle platform bugs before they reach users.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Victoria
Github Skills (20)
fedora-coreos10
scripting10
testing10
bash10
cicd10
automation10
script10
build-automation10
sh10
automations10
shell10
podman9
coreos9
go9
systemd9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
coreos/coreos-assembler
Aug 2021 - Aug 2022
Tooling container to assemble CoreOS-like systems
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:74 reviews, 12 commits, 71 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Gursewak primarily contributed to the coreos-assembler repository by adding support for and maintaining the build system. This included changes to the build scripts and adding support for new features, such as integrating content sets. Additionally, the user made improvements related to the testing infrastructure, including modifications to the test scenarios and test execution. The user also addressed issues related to platform reliability by improving error handling and instance management.
coreosbuildsystemfedora
coreos/fedora-coreos-config
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Base configuration for Fedora CoreOS
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:111 reviews, 37 commits, 149 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Gursewak's contributions primarily focus on creating and maintaining automated tests for the Fedora CoreOS configuration. The commits involve writing shell scripts (test.sh) to validate various aspects of the system, including user authentication, DNS resolution within podman, systemd unit management, and emulator support. The user also updated existing tests to align with a new YAML format for kola options.
fedora-coreos
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