Brad Sollar
Chief Technology Officer at Mainsail Industries
Alexandria, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrad Sollar is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 11 years of enterprise and government-focused cloud architecture experience, now guiding Mainsail Industries from Alexandria, VA. He combines deep hands-on expertise from Red Hat and MITRE—specializing in OpenShift, cloud strategy, and secure multi-cloud transformations—with a pragmatic history of building and advising mission-critical systems. Brad has translated technical vision into sales and delivery as a Technology Strategist and Sr. Solutions Architect, working closely with C-level stakeholders and systems integrators to drive “Cloud Right” roadmaps. His engineering roots span cyber operations, automation, and front-end contributions to projects like the RedHatGov website, where he implemented analytics and UX-focused tooling. A former Army NCOIC with formal training in information assurance, he pairs disciplined operational leadership with entrepreneurial experience running his own companies. Outside of work he actively trades options, favoring credit spreads to stay theta positive—an indicator of his risk-aware, data-driven decision style.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Information Assurance, Masters Information Assurance at Capitol Technology UniversityBachelors Science Information Technology Information Technology, Bachelors Science Information Technology Information Technology at University of Phoenix
Github Skills (5)
html10
css10
javascript10
e-government7
g7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
RedHatGov/redhatgov.github.io
May 2017 - Mar 2019
RedHatGov website
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:89 commits, 64 PRs, 48 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Brad primarily contributed to the website's front-end functionality by implementing features related to Adobe Analytics integration, and a copy-to-clipboard function. They modified the header and footer partials to include Adobe Analytics tracking scripts and added javascript code and css to enable the copy to clipboard function. Further, they addressed the addition of a new option related to the RHPDS functionality.
governmentworkshop
RedHatGov/OpenShift.AWS
Nov 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:3 commits in 2 months
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