Roland Huß
Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat
Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolRoland Huß is a Distinguished Engineer with 17+ years designing and shipping cloud-native platforms and developer tooling from Bavaria, Germany. He combines deep JVM and systems expertise with DevOps practice—contributing to prominent open-source projects such as Jolokia, the Fabric8 Kubernetes client, and the Knative CLI while co-authoring the O’Reilly book "Kubernetes Patterns." At Red Hat he progressed from Principal to Distinguished Engineer, steering build/release automation, CI/CD and operator/controller examples that bridge theory and production. A longtime contributor to Knative governance and tooling, he pairs pragmatic backend engineering with a penchant for thoughtful refactors and improved observability. Trained as a physicist (Dr. rer. nat.), he brings a researcher's rigor to software architecture and a knack for making complex distributed behaviors predictable.
17 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. rer. nat. Physics, Dr. rer. nat. Physics at University of Bayreuth
German, English, French
Stackoverflow
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58answers
9questions
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Github Skills (61)
integration-testing10
camelcase10
json10
spring-integration10
kubernetes10
docker10
integrate10
back-end-development10
scripting10
testng10
testing10
bash10
apache-camel10
dockers10
integrations10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
jolokia/jolokia
Jul 2010 - Jan 2023
JMX on Capsaicin
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 32 reviews, 1848 commits in 12 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Roland primarily worked on Java-based back-end logic within the Jolokia project. Their contributions involved merging branches, resolving code conflicts, refactoring request dispatching, and refactoring the handling of JMX and other server-side components. The user also introduced a new configuration parameter and implemented improvements in the logging system. Moreover, they made updates related to HTTPS configurations and implemented support for client authentication and other SSL-related configurations.
jmx
k8spatterns/examples
Apr 2017 - Jan 2023
Examples for "Kubernetes Patterns - Reusable Elements for Designing Cloud Native Applications", Second Edition
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 169 commits, 28 PRs in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Roland primarily contributed to the repository by implementing and maintaining the infrastructure for the Kubernetes Patterns examples. Their work includes creating and updating shell scripts for building and deploying containerized applications, particularly around controller and operator examples. They also focused on setting up the CI/CD pipeline and integrating it with the website deployment process, ensuring the project's examples are readily accessible.
cloud-nativekubernetes
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