I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling firewalls and crushing stacks. I have been known to remodel panic() functions on coffee breaks, making them more efficient in the area of crash recovery. I translate computer jargon for Microsoft refugees, I write eyebrow raising parodies*, I manage time with chrony. Occasionally, I work feverishly for 3 days in a row. I woo Linux with my sensational and hypnotic keyboard typing, I can pilot fsck around bad sectors with ease, and I can induce qubits to spin faster. I am an expert in System Administration, a veteran in UNIX, and an outlaw at CERT.

By day I am a people manager at Red Hat, in charge of the Community Linux Engineering group. We make the platform for Fedora, CentOS, and EPEL & drive it forward.

* Thank you, Hugh Gallagher

Jim Perrin is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, with over 20 years of experience building multiple Linux distros. Jim is a former CentOS Board member, working extensively at the intersection of enterprise Linux, cloud, and upstream community.

Justin serves as Field CTO at Sidero Labs and hosts the Fork Around and Find Out podcast. He has been called the Steven Spielberg of Cloud Native and the Bill Nye of tech. His career includes contributions to Oscar-winning films, the Disney+ streaming platform, and Amazon EKS. In his free time, Justin enjoys building modern-retro computers and watching Moana.

Sri Ramkrishna has had a colorful and varied career. He started in Enterprise IT, spending 15 years crawling under servers in datacenters, writing tools, and managing enterprise-class storage before moving into professional open source. Since then, Sri has worn many hats — developer advocate, community builder, event organizer — alongside technical roles like firmware QA and building open-hardware servers on open toolchains.

To say Sri loves working with Linux is an understatement. He currently serves as a Director of the GNOME Foundation, the nonprofit that stewards the finances and assets of the GNOME Project. Today, Sri runs a consulting business focused on his core strengths: open source strategy, community development, and technical infrastructure.

Previously at Intel, ITRenew

Infrastructure Lead @ AlmaLinux