Chad Ferman
Ansible Senior Principal Product Manager at Red Hat
Carrollton, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarChad Ferman is an enterprise automation and DevOps leader with over 15 years of hands-on IT automation experience and eight years in product-focused roles, currently serving as Senior Principal Product Manager for Ansible at Red Hat. He has driven digital transformation and deployment automation across Fortune 5 environments, translating complex business processes into scalable BDAT-aligned technology solutions. A former Automation Domain Architect at ExxonMobil, he led platform POCs (including enterprise OpenShift adoption), microservices migrations, and global enablement programs. Chad combines deep manufacturing and logistics domain knowledge with practical system architecture skills—from orchestration and CI/CD to monitoring and self-healing systems—and is a regular speaker and evangelist for open source and DevOps. Notably, he has significant APAC experience and a track record of turning research POCs into production platforms that accelerate business outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (105)
python10
hat10
automation10
rest-api10
django10
ansible-automation-platform10
api10
rest10
ansible10
django-rest-framework10
upstream10
user-interface10
commons9
ostree9
composer9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
redhat-adsa/HowWeEnable
Mar 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:33 reviews, 140 commits, 18 PRs in 1 year 4 months
chadmf/fedora_workstation
Nov 2021 - Jun 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 66 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
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