Led distributed engineering teams (11 engineers across China, India, and Europe) building CRC/OpenShift Local and JKube, serving thousands of developers globally.
- CRC/OpenShift Local
Red Hat development tool for provisioning a full OpenShift in ~10 minutes across Linux, macOS, Windows. Cross-platform virtualization without admin privileges. - Podman Infrastructure Networking and virtualization powering Podman Machine/Desktop. End-to-end Windows enablement.
- Eclipse JKube, source code, @eclipse-jkube
Cloud-native Java tooling for Kubernetes.
100+ consecutive monthly releases over 9 years. Maintained delivery while re-architecting platform, adding new OS support, and coordinating with multiple teams.
Delivered full OpenShift on ARM Macs within 12 months of M1 announcement.
Rapidly optimized for remote work. Enabled thousands to work from home without business disruption.
Re-architected CRC to align with major OpenShift changes while maintaining a monthly release schedule.
Led comprehensive Windows enablement across CRC, Podman, and Podman Desktop: installer integration, virtualization drivers, Desktop extensions, unified developer experience.
Built virtualization stack for Linux (KVM), macOS (Hyperkit/Apple framework),
Kubernetes, OpenShift, Podman, Go, Python, Virtualization, Linux, macOS, Windows; (Hyper-V) without admin requirements. Solved complex OS-level constraints.
- Built center of excellence for cross-platform systems engineering
- Developed high-performing engineers
- Coordinated cross-product releases with Podman/DevTools teams
- Championed open-source collaboration with Kubernetes and container communities
- Codespace: 🛠️
gbraad-redhat/ubi9-golang, Tunnel: ⚙️gbraad-redhat/ubi9-golang - Codespace: 🛠️
gbraad-redhat/ubi9-gotoolset, Tunnel: ⚙️gbraad-redhat/ubi9-gotoolset - Codespace: 🛠️
gbraad-redhat/fedora-golang, Tunnel: ⚙️gbraad-redhat/fedora-golang - Ephemeral Infrastructure: ⚙️
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