Welcome. I am Paul Bastide. Thank you for your interest
I’m a software engineer at IBM and a Red Hat Partner Engineer, building and maintaining OpenShift and Kubernetes across multiple architectures — specifically IBM Power (ppc64le). I lead, plan, design, ship, and debug the OpenShift Container Platform on IBM Power and the layered offerings and operators, autoscaling, and install/CI tooling that make enterprise Kubernetes run in production, and I do it in the open. Alongside the engineering, I’m energetically focused on mentoring early-career developers to find and reach their goals.
Highlights
- 400+ patents
- 22 years at IBM, spanning deep technical enablement, multi-arch support, systems-of-systems integration, and high-performance software development.
- Led the ppc64le enablement of Security Profiles Operator, scheduler plugins, secondary scheduler operator, Red Hat build of cert-manager, Red Hat build of external secrets operator, Custom Metrics AutoScaler, Compliance Operator and supporting CIS,DISA-STIG,PCI-DSS v3/v4 profiles.
- Open-source engineer — 100+ repositories on GitHub; led an open-source project with 100+ forks.
- Published author — A regular technical writer at bastide.org and on IBM.com
What I do now
OpenShift Container Platform on IBM Power Systems
I lead the engineering of OpenShift Container Platform on IBM Power and layered solutions in Go, Rust and Python for the IBM Power architecture, with a focus on operators, autoscaling, and multi-architecture support. Recent work includes:
- Custom Metrics Autoscaler (KEDA) — enabled Red Hat’s KEDA-based autoscaler on IBM Power (v2.19.1+), covering Prometheus, Kafka, and cron scalers with fallback behavior and CloudEvents-based observability.
- Platform & install tooling — RHCOS build-artifact extraction, multi-cluster bastion configuration, PowerVS networking, and contributions to multi-architecture OpenShift CI.
- ISV OpenSource Ecosystem — lead a team that ports OpenSource software to Linux on IBM Power.
I work day-to-day in Go, Rust and Python on Linux, with Git/GitHub workflows and CI/CD at the center of everything I ship.
Selected projects
IBM FHIR Server (open source)
The IBM FHIR Server is a modular Java implementation of HL7 FHIR R4, built for performance and configurability. I led the design and development of major features — Search, Persistence, Bulk Data (Amazon S3 and Azure Blob), Audit, Hard Erase, and Release Automation — and migrated the FHIR search implementation from DSTU2 to R4.
I also led the project’s migration to open source on GitHub, preserving the full git history while removing sensitive references. The project grew to 100+ forks, 100K+ downloads, and 500K+ Docker pulls, developed by a distributed team using FHIR, Db2, Postgres, Open Liberty, and GitHub Actions.
IBM Watson Platform for Health — Resiliency Framework
I built the GxP disaster-recovery framework for FHIR and file data, developing wrapper automation around Kafka topics, message management, and MirrorMaker. I developed deep Kafka expertise validating the most critical DR use cases — recovery-time and recovery-point objectives, active/passive, and active/active — using Chef, UrbanCode Deploy, Bash, and Java.
IBM Watson Platform for Health — Patient Data Export
I led a team of ten developers to deliver a near-real-time health-data platform, transforming HL7 FHIR DSTU2 data through a dimensional and analytical model to surface patient and population insight over REST APIs. Built on HDFS, HBase, and Kafka, under rigorous GxP governance, using Java, JAX-RS, ETL, SQL, Jenkins, Maven, Chef, and UrbanCode Deploy.
IBM Watson Health Cloud
I led a team building health-data platform APIs — REST and JDBC access, patient-data subscriptions, FHIR Server, Kafka, and WebSocket integrations, and a JPA data-access layer — as part of establishing a micro-services-based, HIPAA-enabled platform for healthcare developers.
Innovation & recognition
With over four hundred patents, I’m recognized as one of Wikipedia’s prolific inventors. I hold professional badges for thought leadership, data science, and engineering skills on my Credly profile.
Let’s connect
Conferences & papers: bastide.org/conferences
GitHub: github.com/prb112
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/paulbastide
Blog: bastide.org