Brett Thurber
Director And Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat
Pflugerville, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrett Thurber is a technology leader with over a decade of engineering and management experience, currently serving as Director and Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat. He rose through technical and leadership ranks—from Engineering Manager to Distinguished Engineer—bringing deep expertise in large-scale enterprise and HPC support from prior roles at Dell and the U.S. Air Force. Based in Pflugerville, Texas, he blends hands-on systems thinking with strategic customer experience training from the University of Houston’s Bauer College. Brett’s career shows a pattern of evolving responsibility: shaping engineering teams, driving platform reliability, and influencing product direction at an open-source-centric company. He is known for bridging operational rigor and customer-focused solutions, often translating complex technical constraints into pragmatic support and delivery strategies. Colleagues would note his uncommon combination of military discipline, enterprise support leadership, and senior engineering influence.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Customer Experience Program, Customer Experience Program at University of Houston, C.T. Bauer College of BusinessIndustry Certifications
Github Skills (116)
origami10
tooling10
vsphere10
vagrantfile10
metadata10
gcp10
ovirt10
opal10
ruby10
google-cloud10
vms10
operator10
commons10
cdr10
itil10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
bthurber/managing-ocp-install-beyond
Aug 2017 - Sep 2018
Managing the Lifecycle of OpenShift from Installation and Beyond
Contributions:35 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
lifecycleinstallationopenshiftkubernetesbeyond
RedHatDemos/RHCLS_QuickStartCloudInstaller
Aug 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 6 months
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