Bill Burns
Retired at Retired from RedHat
Salem, New Hampshire, United States
Summary
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SeniorBill Burns is a retired engineering leader with decades of deep systems and virtualization expertise, most recently driving Red Hat’s Digital Sovereignty and Operate First initiatives to bake production-grade operations into development. He built and led distributed teams that enabled NFV/containerization for telcos and partners, and earlier authored kernel and hypervisor work on Xen and Linux across many architectures. Bill’s hands-on background spans low-level C and assembly, crash-dump and robustness engineering, distributed file-system metadata, and boot/installer integration for hardware virtualization platforms. Known for hiring and empowering self-directed engineering leaders, he combines strategic product stewardship with a rare practical fluency in kernel internals and system bring-up. Based in Salem, NH, he continues to advocate for bringing open source projects into production clouds during development.
11 years of coding experience
51 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (16)
cooperation8
gatsbyjs7
netlify6
react5
gatsby5
serve5
blueprint5
raise5
twitter-api3
sre2
publish2
twitter2
kubernetes1
docker1
specification1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
open-infrastructure-labs/operate-first-workloads
Feb 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:9 reviews, 7 PRs, 10 comments in 3 months
billburnseh/operate-first-workloads
Feb 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:19 pushes in 2 months
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