Rom Freiman
Senior Director, Software Engineering at Red Hat
Israel
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Top SchoolRom Freiman is a seasoned software engineering leader with over 15 years of experience designing and delivering distributed, API-driven platforms and microservices at enterprise scale. Currently a Director of Software Engineering at Red Hat, he has a track record of turning complex reliability and scalability challenges into production-grade systems through hands-on architecture, team leadership, and rigorous execution. His background spans kernel-level innovations, building resilient service meshes for hundreds of containerized microservices, and leading R&D and integration across cloud-native stacks including Kubernetes, Docker, Consul, and CI/CD pipelines. Rom combines technical depth (Python, Go, systems programming) with product and operational sensibilities honed as a startup CTO and an IDF technical product manager. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer and Software Engineering and an MBA from Technion, reflecting a rare blend of engineering rigor and business acumen. Notably, his early work on optimized live migration and on-prem AWS-compatible platform services highlights a consistent focus on making cloud infrastructure both performant and enterprise-ready.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
M.B.A, Business Management, M.B.A, Business Management at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
English, Hebrew, Russian, Spanish
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Github Skills (200)
scheduling10
consul10
openshift-origin10
visualizations10
paas10
data-center10
ecosystem10
continuous-delivery10
service-discovery10
vault10
golang10
continuous-deployment10
kubernetes10
container10
continuous-integration10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Stratoscale/pycommonlog
Jan 2016 - Nov 2019
logging infrastructure for python programs
Contributions:4 commits, 9 PRs, 8 pushes in 3 years 11 months
loggingpython
romfreiman/tornado-aircon-custom-component
Feb 2025 - Jul 2026
This custom component integrates Tornado Aircon devices with Home Assistant, allowing you to control and monitor your air conditioning units directly from the Home Assistant interface.
Contributions:5 releases, 12 PRs, 61 pushes in 1 year 5 months
custom-componenthome-assistanthomeassistanthomeassistant-custom-componenthvac
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