Computer and automation enthusiast. Enjoys cooking, baking, and biking. Appreciates good coffee, clever design, and walkable cities. Tinkers with Linux for a living at Red Hat.

Fedora Quality team leader for Red Hat. Fedora openQA maintainer. Contributor to Bodhi, Fedora CI, greenwave, waiverdb etc.

Fedora contributor from 15+ years. Sysadmin, DevOps engineer and college professor. Free and Open source enthusiast. Husband and father of three, there's no food he has disliked (so far)

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.

Amita Sharma is an accomplished engineering manager at Red Hat, with an impressive 17-year career, including 11 years contributing to the dynamic projects at Red Hat. In her current role, she oversees the management of crucial components in RHOAI (Red Hat OpenShift Artificial Intelligence), focusing on Distributed Workloads and Data Science Pipeline, leading a global team of engineers.
Additionally, Amita takes on the responsibility of the DevOps RHOAI team, ensuring the smooth release of RHOAI. Her leadership reflects a strong commitment to excellence and efficiency.
Beyond her managerial role, Amita is a dedicated contributor to the open-source community. Since 2011, she has made a significant impact on the Fedora Project (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Amsharma), playing a key role in the Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Team and serving as the Fedora Diversity Advisor. Amita has represented Fedora at global events such as Flock, FOSSASIA, FOSDEM, DevConf CZ, OSCAL, showcasing her passion for diversity, inclusion, and open-source culture. Amita Sharma is making a lasting impact in her multifaceted contributions to the tech world.

Carl George is the EPEL team lead in the Community Platform Engineering (CPE) group at Red Hat. He is a member of the EPEL Steering Committee, the Fedora Packaging Committee, and various Fedora Special Interest Groups. He participates in many upstream projects, often related to his packaging activities in Fedora, EPEL, and CentOS.

Daniel is a Principal Software Engineer for OpenShift Engineering at Red Hat. He’s been involved in the creation of the ebpf-sig group in Fedora and the development of bpfman. He's interested in networking and observability technolgies with container systems such as Kubernetes and OpenShift. He’s been a PTL (Project Team Lead) at some projects in OpenStack, a member of the Kubernetes SIG Group and part of the panel for the Leveraging Containers and OpenStack.

Daniel Walsh has worked in computer security for over 40 years as a Senior Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat since 2001. Lead architect of the Container Runtime Engineering team. Worked on container technology for 17 years. Dan focusess on the CRI-O Container Runtime for Kubernets, Buildah for building container images, Podman for running and managing containers, containers/storage and containers/image. Author of Podman in Action. He formerly led the SELinux project. Twitter: rhatdan Blog: danwalsh.livejournal.com Email: dwalsh@redhat.com

David is a Solutions Architect specializing in open source partner solutions on AWS. David is a Sr. Manager for the Partner Solutions architecture team who challenges himself to remain technical while also focusing on the strategic support for operating system distributions. David works with the Fedora Cloud Edition Working Group, but enjoys working with CommOps too.

Passionate about a bunch of stuff like: animals, art, amateur radio, blacksmithing, electronics, open source, maker culture, DIY, self sufficiency.

I started using Linux in 1997 with Red Hat 5.0 (Hurricane). In the countries where I have lived, I have been promoting free software with Linux user groups for approximately ten years,

Graduate education majoring in computer science at the University of Carabobo, Venezuela; 15 years of experience in IT management and application development; 10 years working for the diffusion of free software in many countries of Latinoamerica; Software Engineer; Living in a constant search to make sense of the world through a monitor and a keyboard ...

I'm a packaging sponsor and Fedora Ambassador, and I help review and sponsor new packagers.

Fernando is a Software Engineer from Sevilla, Spain. He is mainly focused on Networking and system engineering. He is member of the SUGUS GNU/Linux free software group. He has contributed to multiple free software projects like Tor, Netfilter subsystem and Linux kernel. In addition, he is co-maintaining nmstate and actively contributing to NetworkManager, Ansible Linux Network System Role and Nispor.

In addition, he is currently part of the Fedora Council as Co-lead of the Mentored Projects initiative.

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.

Howdy! I'm a polyglot having studied 7 languages but still learning English LOL. I play the bagpipes, sing opera and race pigeons in my spare time. I have worked in various big named companies over the years most notably Red Hat for 11 years, where I directed the Engineering Partner Management team which was originally responsible for all technical partner relationships around silicon, server, I/O, storage enablement and then grew up into the public cloud space partner arena. I'm now focused on the software enablement of RISC-V as an architecture, more importantly on what do we need to do as a community to make this a success. RISC-V is an OPEN Architecture with an OPEN ISA and we need your help in order for it to mature into an enterprise ready platform. RISC-V is the next great platform coming but will require many eyes and hands in order to make it successful. We need support from the linux community at large and we also need the support of the Fedora, CentOS Stream community.

Iván Chavero wrote his first programs in Basic at 16, since 1997 he has
become a promoter and developer of Free Software and Open Source.
He studied computer engineering in the University of Chihuahua in which he spent
15 years managing high availability systems, he worked as Senior Software
Engineer at Red Hat developing on OpenStack and OpenShift and cutrrently works as
curriculum developer. He actively contributes to Free Software projects like
Fedora and SotolitoOS and runs a project called SotolitoLabs that is dedicated to
provide software and devices solutions to cloud and IoT.
He's a founding member of the Chihuahua Linux User Group and teaches operating systems at the Engineering
Faculty of the University of Chihuahua. When he's not programming or taming computers
you can find him riding his skateboard or playing with one of his Punk rock bands.

Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/imcsk8/
Blog: https://ivan.chavero.com.mx/blog
GitHub: https://github.com/imcsk8

Jefro is a serving CentOS board member and chair for the CentOS Automotive SIG. He works at Red Hat as an open source strategist and community architect for automotive and edge communities as well as RISC-V. Prior to Red Hat, he spent two years at the Linux Foundation working on RISC-V and LF Energy; eight years at Intel where he helped launch and run the Yocto Project, Zephyr Project, OpenBMC, project ACRN, and a number of other communities; and 20 years as a technical writer, mostly focused on embedded systems and open source.

I started using Fedora in 2014 after attending OSCAL, later becoming a Fedora Project contributor and the first Fedora Ambassador from Albania. Since then, I have been involved in various teams within Fedora, primarily focusing on DEI and mentorship.

Currently, I am part of the Fedora Council as the DEI advisor.

I am a Linux sysadmin at Red Hat, where I develop the managed workstation enviornment used by Red Hat employees.

Jonathan is the Infrastructure Team Lead for AlmaLinux. He has been consuming open source and building infrastructure in the web hosting industry for over 15 years and actively contributing to open source for roughly the past 3 within the AlmaLinux, Fedora, and EPEL communities, among others. Outside of technology he is an avid hunter and conservationist, boating and water sports enthusiast, and member of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary.

Fedora Marketing Team Contributor

Justin W. Flory is a creative maker. He is best known as an Open Source contributor and Free Culture advocate originally from the United States. Justin has participated in numerous Open Source communities and led different initiatives to build sustainable software and communities for over ten years.

In October 2022, Justin joined Red Hat as the fourth Fedora Community Architect (FCA). He works closely between the Fedora Project community and Red Hat to lead initiatives that grow the Fedora user and developer communities. He also helps make Red Hat and Fedora interactions more transparent and open.

Justin is also a contributor to the Fedora Project since 2015. In Fedora, he volunteered as the team leader of the Community Operations team for four years and was a founding member of the Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Team. He continues to represent and advocate for Fedora Linux internationally at events and conferences, including OS Community Africa Festival, CHAOSScon (Africa & Europe editions), FOSDEM, DevConf CZ, All Things Open, OSCAL, and others.

Senior software engineer at Red Hat, working on the Packit project.

Fedora Ambassador - Mentor | Fedora Packager | Fedora Mindshare Team
Senior DevOps Engineer | Senior Okta Engineer | Senior System Engineer

Fedora Ambassador | Fedora Packager | Fedora Design Team
Senior Software Developer

An avid linux user. Fedora tester. Musician. Poet.

Technical Lead for the Lenovo Linux PC team

My name is Matt Kosarek and I am currently working at Canonical on the Mir compositor library. In my spare time, I'm writing a Mir-based compositor called miracle-wm, a tiling window manager much in the style if i3 and sway. I like all things Linux, especially in the graphics space. I live in Philadelphia, PA and I'm originally from New Jersey.

Maya is a Product Manager at Microsoft who is passionate about understanding consumer painpoints, ideating and iterating around solutions, and using data to drive product decisions. She hails from Brockport, NY, a small town west of Rochester and is excited to be working on the cloud and delving into all things open source. Maya holds a Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering and an MBA, both from the University of Virginia. She loves to try new restaurants and play tennis and golf in her free time.

Admin in Fedora Infrastructure
Wizard from release-monitoring.org

Michel Lind (né Salim) 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 deployment on the production fleet.

Neal is a developer and contributor in Fedora; Mageia; and openSUSE, focusing primarily on the base Linux system components (such as package and software management) and the Linux desktop. He's a big believer in "upstream first", which has led him all over the open source world. He is the principal consultant at Velocity Limitless, a consultancy focusing on open source software solutions.

Infrastructure cat herder.

Noel Miller

Noel Miller is a Systems Administrator, Technical Account Manager at Red Hat, and the Project Manager at Universal Blue.

He has been working in IT for a little over 10 years, with most of his career being focused on Small and Medium Size businesses. He recently joined Red Hat as a Technical Account Manager with a focus on Ansible.

He is the Project Manager and a Core Contributor at Universal Blue. Universal Blue builds a diverse set of continuously delivered operating system images using Fedora Atomic Desktop's support for OCI/Docker containers.

Outside of his IT endeavors, he enjoys spending time with his family, playing video games, heavy metal music, and playing guitar.

Pat Riehecky works at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. He is the release manager for Scientific Linux and a member of the CentOS Board.

Perry Rivera:

I motivate, mobilize, and connect cross-functional teams with technical solutions and support and provide customer-focused DevOps Customer Success experience in commercial and non-profit industries.

I deliver system, network, and security support in a wide variety of business and home environments. I partner with clients for training and end-developer support efforts, especially in the areas of configuration management and platform integration.

Engineer at Red Hat working on the Konflux platform.

I am Rene Kuhn, a 27-year-old self-taught developer currently working at Terramate, where we work on open-core developer tooling. My journey in technology began through a passion for Linux, which now extends to teaching Linux workshops in my spare time, predominantly using Fedora.

Hey, I'm Smera – a designer with a flair for creating intuitive and stunning designs. Originally from New Delhi, I've made my way to Berlin to immerse myself in the thriving design scene. When I'm not busy pushing pixels, you can find me exploring the city's vibrant culinary scene or whipping up my next art masterpiece.

As a designer, I'm passionate about using design to solve complex problems and make people's lives easier. Whether it's creating a more accessible web experience for seniors, designing a personalized period tracking app, or developing a comprehensive design system for a company, I love diving into new challenges and finding creative solutions.

When I'm not working on design projects, I'm actively involved in open source contributions through organizations like The Fedora Project, and I'm always looking for ways to give back to the community.

And when I'm not working or indulging in my creative hobbies, you can bet I'm playing video games. I love everything from RPGs to puzzle games, and I'm always down for a good co-op session.

I've been a Red Hat employee and contributor to Fedora since 2008. I've served on the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee for many years, as well as being a founding member of the Fedora ELN SIG and Fedora Server Working groups.

QA.Council.Onboarding and Tech Evangelism

Tim is employed by Red Hat to work on the Fedora Quality team. In the past, he has worked on test automation but is currently working on AI/ML in Fedora and the intersection between testing and AI/ML.

Opensource enthusiast with a passion for embedded connected things

Spikey Hair, Hawaiian Shirts ... with Penguins on them.
Troy currently works for Red Hat on the CentOS Stream and Emerging RHEL teams.
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.

I work in Red Hat as a developer for Systemd and related projects.
I'm a Fedora packager and member of FESCo.