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Marina Kalinin

Marina Kalinin

Principal Product Operations Engineer
Raleigh,NC

Summary

Principal Product Operations Engineer for the OpenShift Security Pillar. Covering OpenShift security and compliance, Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes, OpenShift sandboxed and confidential containers.

Cross-functional collaboration evangelist, assisting our product teams to establish the appropriate support policy and ensuring all the teams are aligned to enable best product experience for our offerings.

Action-oriented, passionate, organized, direct and reliable, with strong leadership and communication skills.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages

Work History

OpenShift Security Product Operations Engineer

Red Hat, PLM
03.2021 - Current

OpenShift Security and Compliance; CVE handling in OpenShift; Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes; Red Hat OpenShift sandboxed containers and confidential containers.

Main responsibilities:

  • Curated the lifecycle and support policies
  • Managed support exceptions
  • Provided risk mitigation and prevention analysis
  • Prioritized customer Bugs and RFEs based on customer impact analysis (PX Prio)
  • Resolved customer escalations by understanding the problem and driving the correct people to take the next necessary steps
  • Provided key feature review and technical enablement to CEE and other stakeholders
  • Connected different teams to work together to enable faster resolution on of customer cases and with higher customer satisfaction
  • Established support matrix documents

Virtualization Product Lead

Red Hat, CEE
06.2016 - 03.2021

Red Hat Virtualization, Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Virtualization, RHEL Virtualization, OpenShift sandboxed containers (kata)


Ensured the customer and CEE(Red Hat Support Organization) had a strong voice in the products we ship

and support:

  • Incorporate the DDR strategy in RHV release planning
  • Weighed in on bugs and RFE prioritization during minor and z-stream release plannings for RHV
  • Actively participated in RHV program and the transition to agile workflow
  • Acted as the global focal point for unresolved sbr-virt technical issues
  • Handled Support Exception for RHV, RHHI-V and Virt
  • Defined general SBR processes and workflow

Ran the RHV beta program:

  • Created and executed plan for the global Support Delivery team
  • Coordinated high touch beta program for customers in collaboration with TAM and SCM teams
  • Incorporated RHV Engineering knowledge sharing sessions during beta releases

Senior Software Maintenance Engineer for RHV

Red Hat, CEE
09.2012 - 03.2021
  • Responsible for troubleshooting, providing patches and solutions for all Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) components
  • Hotfix Contact Point for accelerated fix requests within RHV and Virt teams
  • Mentored members of the global sbr-virt team
  • KCS Coach and Evangelist
  • Managed the sbr-virt lab in NA
  • Provided RHV best practices trainings for RHIT Upshift team and NVidia support team

Software Maintenance Engineer for RHV

Red Hat, CEE
06.2009 - 08.2012
  • Troubleshooted and provided patches and solutions for all Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) components
  • Developed support tools for both Linux & Windows Platforms
  • Main contributor to RHEV knowledge base articles
  • Provided in-person and remote trainings for junior team mates

Software Developer

Radcom
03.2006 - 12.2008
  • Developed and maintained the management side of the network monitoring solution for communication service providers and equipment vendors
  • Improved and significantly expanded one of the main product's features; implemented a robust and flexible engine, including wide testing set and comprehensive documentation, which noticeably contributed to the feature's adoption and usability
  • As a part of Fast Response team at R&D department, directed integration and deployment of the product at Telco companies all over the world, achieving high customer satisfaction and successful POCs leading to signed contracts

Software Developer

Amdocs, Israel
01.2005 - 03.2006
  • Designed and developed core and customizable parts of OMS application, J2EE multi-tier application, working mainly server side
  • Responsible for software integration, system tests and releases, focal point at the customer's site (AT&T, USA)
  • Developed an internal tool (as eclipse plug-in) for checking code conventions, required before code review process according to CMM procedures, and was recognized with a special award

Software Developer

Mishuv, Israel
03.2004 - 01.2005
  • Managed company's financial systems development. Based on analyzing the office needs, I developed powerful Access applications for managing the company's budget and other financial aspects in an effective and reliable way.

Freelance Developer

Medva Surveying Ltd, Israel
08.2000 - 05.2001
  • Developed applications for office management and accounting using mainly Access and AutoCAD VBA

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

The Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo
Israel
05.2001 -

Bachelor of Arts - Computer Science

The Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo
Israel
05.2001 -

Tel-Aviv College
Israel

Skills

Action-oriented

Organized

Strong leadership and communication skills

Managing multiple demanding priorities simultaneously

Agile principals, jira, portfolio

Deep understanding of Red Hat strategy, workflows, portfolio and life cycle management

OpenShift, RHEL

Vulnerability mgmt, Compliance

Open Source

Additional Information

Israel Defense Forces / Air Force
Firing systems technician
Awarded the Honors of the President of Israel

Timeline

OpenShift Security Product Operations Engineer

Red Hat, PLM
03.2021 - Current

Virtualization Product Lead

Red Hat, CEE
06.2016 - 03.2021

Senior Software Maintenance Engineer for RHV

Red Hat, CEE
09.2012 - 03.2021

Software Maintenance Engineer for RHV

Red Hat, CEE
06.2009 - 08.2012

Software Developer

Radcom
03.2006 - 12.2008

Software Developer

Amdocs, Israel
01.2005 - 03.2006

Software Developer

Mishuv, Israel
03.2004 - 01.2005

Master of Science - Computer Science

The Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo
05.2001 -

Bachelor of Arts - Computer Science

The Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo
05.2001 -

Freelance Developer

Medva Surveying Ltd, Israel
08.2000 - 05.2001

Tel-Aviv College
Marina KalininPrincipal Product Operations Engineer