Brian Harrington
Co-Chair - Technical Steering Committee at RISE (RISC-V Software Ecosystem)
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Harrington is a seasoned technology strategist and security-focused engineer with 15+ years designing high-performance Linux systems, distributed infrastructure, and secure cloud-native platforms. Currently Co-Chair of the RISE Technical Steering Committee and a Technology Strategist at Red Hat, he blends hands-on architecture with product leadership—most notably shaping OpenShift Service Mesh and CoreOS-era tooling. He excels at concurrency, large-scale management, messaging systems, and hardware integration, with a track record of turning cutting-edge research into usable, secure products. A frequent conference presence (DEF CON, Shmoocon) and occasional public speaker, he pairs deep technical rigor with practical mentorship across teams. Notably, his background includes orchestrating mission-critical, high-throughput email and infrastructure systems for large-scale campaigns and guiding pre-release enterprise deployments where documentation didn’t yet exist.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
RHCA, RHCA at Red Hat Certified ArchitectSoftware Enginnering & Telecommunications Engineering, Software Enginnering & Telecommunications Engineering at Capitol Technology University
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Github Skills (200)
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atmel10
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Programming languages (32)
Github contributions (5)
coreos/mayday
Oct 2014 - May 2017
A diagnostics tool for capturing system state.
Contributions:32 commits, 20 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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brianredbeard/penalty-flag
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
Contributions:12 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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