Ann Fred
Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat
Cary, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolAnn Fred is a Distinguished Engineer and AI architect with over two decades of software engineering experience, currently leading generative AI platform and strategy work at Red Hat. She combines deep expertise in AI engineering, DevOps, cybersecurity, and platform engineering to help developers and AI teams adopt production-ready AI on Kubernetes using RAG, Llama Stack, MCP, and agent patterns. Her background spans research, consulting, cloud and hybrid-cloud operations, deployment automation, and building developer tools for SRE and platform engineering, informed by hands-on security stewardship since 2018. She has a strong track record of technical leadership at IBM and Red Hat, moving from squad-level management to shaping cross-organizational developer experience and AI strategy. Ann pairs rigorous engineering with practical proofs of concept and upstream open-source collaboration to influence product and enterprise strategy. Outside work she recharges through scuba diving, travel, gaming, and family time with her husband, two daughters, and the family dog.
12 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Duke UniversityMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
German, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (132)
argocd10
architecture10
openshift10
bootstrap10
jetbrains9
git-repo9
front-end-development9
ibm-cloud9
interoperability9
tooling9
serve9
intellij9
continuous-deployment9
kubernetes9
continuous-integration9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
amfred/book-of-appstudio
Nov 2022 - Feb 2024
Technical and Architecture documents
Contributions:6 reviews, 2 PRs, 35 pushes in 1 year 3 months
architecture
amfred/softlayerbootstrap
Apr 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:17 commits in 4 months
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