Invented the open patch architecture to facilitate automated imports and builds while maintaining a consistent release plan. Maintainer of reference implementations srpmproc and distrobuild for imports and builds. Coordination with external cloud providers and generation of ISOs and other cloud artifacts for release. Cross-team contributor.

Creator and sole maintainer of Mothership. SRPM archiver, auto patcher and attestation tool.https://github.com/openela/mothershiphttps://imports.openela.org

Delivered Mothership for OpenELA automation. Worked on upstream kernel automation for RL 8/9, RBE for monorepo and led the migration to Github. Integrating IAP to a custom SAML provider. Led development of a cloud marketplace proxy for keyless access to protected assets in public clouds using marketplace images and created the base for automated image builds on AWS and GCP.

Led initial development of CIQ Mountain. Delivered Apollo v3 for security advisories covering Rocky Linux core and SIGs. Leading development of next generation of import tools in use by RESF and OpenELA. Leading development of Sideline to bring updated drivers for EL kernels, maintaining GCP Optimized kernels with it.

Leading development of Peridot, a cloud-native build system built upon a strong foundation of separation and authorization and makes heavy use of modern technologies. Peridot can be used to build multiple distributions at once in one instance, while allowing separate SIGs/extensions to be built by third-party members safely and securely.Also includes yumrepofs which replaces a need for a shared filesystem while enabling the use of object storage. Yumrepofs doesn't require packages on disk while making repo updates, enabled by the hot-swap feature where only affected RPM metadata are swapped in and out of the necessary repository files.Peridot runs on x86_64, aarch64, ppc64le and s390x allowing the build of packages on same architectures as well as i686 and armhfp. Peridot supports fine grained and rapid distribution forking, repositories on-demand, rapid configuration changes and automatic repository modifications based on those changes, automatic package signing as well as no-access key generation (where key is stored in services like Vault and AWS Secrets Manager) and more to enable engineers to build the distribution of the future.Peridot has been open-sourced and work will continue publicly. https://github.com/rocky-linux/peridot

Created secparse to bring security, bug and enhancement metadata for packages on Rocky Linux 8. Secparse is now a part of the release protocol for Rocky Linux. Started work on new cloud-native build and release tools tailored to building, releasing and maintaining Linux distributions and forks.