#166 Red Hat CTO - Chris Wright

Today we are talking to Chris Wright, the CTO at Red Hat. And we discuss the evolution of the open source movement, an amazing explanation of Edge Computing, and how the organization is planning an all virtual experience for Red Hat Summit 2020 on April 28-29.

All of this, right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!

Chris Wright is senior vice president and chief technology officer (CTO) at Red Hat. Wright leads the Office of the CTO, which is responsible for incubating emerging technologies and developing forward-looking perspectives on innovations such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, distributed storage, software defined networking and network functions virtualization, containers, automation and continuous delivery, and distributed ledger.

During his more than 20 years as a software engineer, Wright has worked in the telecommunications industry on high availability and distributed systems, and in the Linux industry on security, virtualization, and networking. He has been a Linux developer for more than 15 years, most of that time spent working deep in the Linux kernel. He is passionate about open source software serving as the foundation for next generation IT systems.

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