Troy Dawson
Lead Designer at Red Hat
Spokane Valley, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTroy Dawson is a Principal Software Engineer and CentOS Stream Team Lead at Red Hat in Spokane Valley, bringing 13 years of focused industry experience to platform engineering and release delivery. He leads packaging and build automation for Emerging RHEL and CentOS Stream, with deep expertise in making complex builds reliable across architectures like aarch64, ppc64le, and s390x. An active OpenShift contributor, he has modernized build systems and deployment tooling across major OpenShift repositories to improve cross-platform compatibility and automated releases. His career roots at Fermilab driving Scientific Linux and early OpenShift packaging give him a rare blend of scientific-computing rigor and enterprise Linux infrastructure know-how. As founder and lead designer of Casual Penguins, he combines engineering leadership with a product-minded, design-forward perspective.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Physics, BS, Physics at Utah State UniversityMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology
Github Skills (31)
kubernetes10
dockerce10
docker10
continuous-integration10
scripting10
continuous-delivery10
dockers10
ruby10
automation10
script10
openshift10
openshift410
ci-cd10
ansible10
sh10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/origin
Feb 2015 - Jun 2017
Conformance test suite for OpenShift
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:719 commits, 45 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Troy's contributions focused on integrating build automation and cross-platform compatibility within the OpenShift origin repository. They modified build scripts and configurations, specifically involving the `.tito` build system and `hack` scripts, to ensure the project could successfully build on various architectures and platforms, including aarch64, ppc64le, and s390x. The user also updated build-related files to accommodate new build locations and incorporate version information into the build process. These changes indicate a strong focus on automating the build process and enhancing platform support.
containerscontinuous-deploymentcaaspaascontinuous-testing
openshift/origin-server
Sep 2012 - May 2015
OpenShift 2 (deprecated)
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:464 commits, 3 pushes, 3 tags in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Troy contributed to the `openshift/origin-server` repository, which is deprecated, suggesting their work focused on the server-side functionality of OpenShift 2. Their commits show modifications to the `stickshift-node` and `application.rb` files, indicating involvement in the core infrastructure and application management aspects of the platform. The code changes include modifications to user account management, environment variable handling, and potentially the underlying Git repository setup for applications. Additionally, they worked on the phpMyAdmin configuration.
kubernetesopenshift
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