CentOS Connect

Adrian is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat and is migrating processes at least since 2010. He started to migrate processes in a high performance computing environment and at some point he migrated so many processes that he got a PhD for that. Most of the time he is now migrating containers but occasionally he still migrates single processes. Currently he serves as the OpenHPC project lead.

FOSS enthusiast since ever, and Ph.D. in distributed computing. Alessandro Di Stefano likes staying on the cutting edge, focusing on observability, software-defined networking, AIOps, and SLA management for PaaS clouds.

AlmaLinux OS Lead Architect and Release Engineering Lead from day 1.
20+ years of Linux experience, 10+ years of building RHEL source code based products.

AlmaLinux OS Lead Architect and Release Engineering Lead from day 1.
20+ years of Linux experience, 10+ years of building RHEL source code based products.

Carol Chen is a Community Architect at Red Hat, having led several upstream communities including InstructLab, Ansible and ManageIQ. She has been actively involved in open source communities while working for Jolla and Nokia previously. In addition, she also has experiences in software development/integration in her 12 years in the mobile industry. On a personal note, Carol plays the Timpani in an orchestra in Tampere, Finland, where she now calls home.

Cedric Clyburn (@cedricclyburn), Senior Developer Advocate at Red Hat, is an enthusiastic software technologist with a background in Kubernetes, DevOps, and container tools. He has experience speaking and organizing conferences including DevNexus, WeAreDevelopers, The Linux Foundation, KCD NYC, and more. Cedric loves all things open-source, and works to make developer's lives easier! Based out of New York.

Dennis is an Engineering Manager at Red Hat. He currently manages the Systems Enablement team in OpenShift. He was formerly the Fedora Release Engineer and has a long history of community engagement.

Ewoud has worked on the Foreman project for a long time with his first commit in 2012. In 2017 he joined Red Hat to work on it full time. As part of Red Hat Satellite's platform team the installer, packaging and releases are significant parts of his responsibilities.

Floor Sweeper, positive attitude bringer, Hybrid Clown Strategist, Old School thinker, non LLM/AI assisted real human @ CentOS Infra (Red Hat employee)

Principal Software Engineer and Packit Product Owner at Red Hat.

Occasional teacher at Masaryk University, Brno CZ. Member and instructor of scout leaders. Python and non-formal education enthusiast.

RDO core maintainer contributing to Openstack, Fedora and CentOS communities.
At Red Hat I'm working in the Release Delivery team in charge of the OpenStack product.

Michel Lind is a long-term Fedora contributor who more recently also contribute to EPEL and the Hyperscale SIG. In his day job, Michel is a Production Engineer on the Linux Userspace team at Meta, which is responsible for the CentOS Stream deployment on the production fleet.

In addition to being a consultant at Velocity Limitless, Neal Gompa is a developer for and contributor to Fedora, CentOS, and openSUSE. Neal focuses primarily on the base Linux system components, such as package and software management, and desktop Linux. He's a big believer in upstream first, which has led him all over the open source world.

Neil Hanlon is an accomplished open source systems engineer with a particular interest in Distributions, Networking, and Security. As a member of the board of directors and infrastructure lead for Rocky Linux and the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF), he is deeply involved in steering the foundation and project's direction at a technical and community level. Neil also contributes to notable projects such as OpenStack-Ansible, Fedora, CentOS, and OpenELA. Neil is employed by CIQ in the Open Source Program Office where he focuses full time on Rocky Linux and other community initiatives.

Nofar is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat, working on the Foreman team to enhance provisioning and systems management for open-source infrastructure. Nofar also moderates the Foreman community demos, fostering collaboration and engagement within the open-source community.

Shaun works at Red Hat as the CentOS Community Architect. He is the chair of the Promo SIG and co-chair of the Docs SIG. When he's not working on CentOS, he sometimes likes to pretend he's still an active GNOME developer.

Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat and upstream maintainer of OpenScanHub. Previously involved with fish shell, Sailfish OS and KornShell.

Spikey Hair, Hawaiian Shirts ... with Penguins on them.
Troy currently works for Red Hat on the CentOS Stream and Emerging RHEL teams.
He is on the CentOS Board. He is the EPEL Steering Committee chair.
He is chair of the Centos Alternative Images SIG.
Troy is also on the Fedora KDE SIG dealing largely with KDE in EPEL.