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Sr. Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, working on security and identity management. Actively participates in FreeIPA, SSSD, Samba, and many other free software projects targeting an open source enterprise environments. Alexander also presents Fedora Project in OpenSSL community.

Amy Marrich is a Principal Technical Marketing Manager at Red Hat. She currently serves as the Chair of the CentOS Project, Vice Chair of the Open Infrastructure Foundation (OpenInfra) Board of Directors, and is on the Community Health Analytics in Open Source Software (CHAOSS) projects governing board. In addition, she serves on the Red Hat OpenStack technical committee, is Chair of the OpenInfra Diversity and Inclusion Working Group, contributes to several OpenStack projects, and previously served as the Chair of the OpenStack User Committee.

Cali Dolfi is a Senior Data Scientist in the Open Source Program Office at Red Hat. Her work focuses on changing the way we look at open source communities through the lens of data science and machine learning. Outside of data science, her passion lies in making careers in technology more accessible for underrepresented groups by mentoring college students and developing accessible academic resources. Outside of her open source work, you can find her at the nearest ski lift.

Carl George leads the EPEL team at Red Hat. He is a longtime maintainer in the Fedora and CentOS projects and contributes regularly to the broader open source ecosystem. He is a member of the EPEL Steering Committee, the Fedora Packaging Committee, and several Fedora Special Interest Groups.

Dennis is a long time Fedora contributor, he is currently a Senior Manager for the systems enablement team in OpenShift. His teams support installing and running OpenShift and OKD on most platforms. He is a big proponent of Open Source and community engagement.

CentOS CTO (Chief Trolling Officer) and part time Hybrid Clown strategist.
Keeping things running, in a smooth way so that while maintaining things up2date, nobody notices it .. or doing it in a way that it's bringing added value and so positive feedback

Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat.
Product Owner for projects under Packaging and Testing Experience group covering Packit, Copr, Testing Farm, tmt and Log Detective.

I'm a seasoned technology professional with a passion for DevOps and innovations. With almost 20 years of experience working with software engineers and Infra/Ops engineers, I deeply understand the importance of collaboration and synergy between these teams.

Currently, I'm an Architect in the Platform engineering team at Canonical. In my role, I support the team in defining technical specifications, applying best practices, and leading cross-team projects.

Recovering people manager at Red Hat. I work in Automotive, but used to do Containers, Atomic, Edge and CoreOS. Also do Origami, Silversmithing, Steelsmithing, Crocheting, Video Games, and random stuff.

Joseph Marrero Corchado is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, specializing in bootable containers, image-mode systems, and cloud infrastructure. With over a decade of experience, he has contributed to open-source communities and enterprise software. His experience encompasses image-mode OSes, Kubernetes, cloud-native buildpacks, and middleware.

Software engineer at Red Hat working on in-place upgrades and conversions of RHEL and other Centos-like operating systems.

Mauro is a Community Engineer at Canonical who frequently runs around coordinating, travelling to, or talking about open-source events. In his free time, you'll usually find him being a mad scientist at home with his latest homelab experiments, gardening, and practicing archery.

A Software Engineer/Product Owner who has been working at Red Hat on conversions between Linux distributions and major version upgrades of RHEL.

Michel Lind is co-chair of the new CentOS Proposed Updates SIG. He 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.

Neal Gompa is a developer for–and contributor to–Fedora, CentOS, AlmaLinux, and openSUSE. Neal focuses primarily on the base Linux system components, such as package and software management, and desktop Linux. He believes in “upstream first,” which has led him all over the open source world. In addition to open source work as a consultant through Velocity Limitless, he is also a co-host on the Sudo Show podcast where he talks about "the business of open source."

Peter is a scientist at University of Bremen, specializing in research methodology, statistics, and computational methods & infrastructure. He is involved with Fedora since FC1, working with desktop and especially Server and contributing to documentation in the early days. In 2020, he got involved in the Fedora Server Edition Working Group. From 2022 onwards, he was also involved in setting up a new Docs Team and improving the Fedora documentation. Currently, he is also co-lead of the Fedora Docs 2025 Community Initiative.

Studied physics (B.Sc. and M.Sc.) and obtained his doctorate from the University of Regensburg. Currently a permanent staff member of the Faculty of Physics at the University of Regensburg.
Founding member and current chair of the CentOS Kmods SIG.

Petr is a technical writer on the Community Linux Engineering team who has been active in Fedora Documentation since 2013, mostly working on user-facing documentation such as the Release Notes, the old (now no longer published) Installation Guide, and Quick Docs.

At Red Hat, Scott McCarty is a Global Senior Principal Product Manager for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, arguably the largest open source software business in the world. Focus areas include cloud, containers, workload expansion, and automation. Working closely with customers, partners, engineering teams, sales, marketing, other product teams, and even in the community, he combines personal experience with customer and partner feedback to enhance and tailor strategic capabilities in Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Principal Software Engineer @ Red Hat
Hacking on Foreman project for the last 10 years using Ruby on Rails and Javascript to make the lives of system administrators easier. Working in the field of hosts provisioning and administration.

Open Source enthusiast that loves to build operating systems and wear Hawaiian shirts.
CentOS Stream Team Lead
CentOS Alternative Images SIG Chair
EPEL Steering Committee Chair
CentOS Board member
Hawaiian Shirt Artisan / Founder Casual Penguins