Chris Butler
Senior Principal Chief Architect at Red Hat
Minato, Japan
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Top SchoolChris Butler is a Senior Principal Chief Architect with deep expertise in cloud, security and regulated-industry architectures, currently driving digital sovereignty and xPU/AI cloud strategies for Red Hat’s APAC Field CTO office. He blends hands-on platform design—spanning IaaS, PaaS and multi-tenant AI-as-a-Service—with leadership in co-innovation and productisation, previously shaping AUCloud’s classified-capable platforms and IBM’s hybrid cloud compliance research. A PhD in haemodynamics and a decade-plus at IBM Research give him an uncommon mix of high-performance computing, numerical modelling and applied AI experience that informs pragmatic solutions to complex regulatory and performance constraints. Chris has repeatedly led cross-functional teams to productionise novel technologies, from cryptographic platforms to DevSecOps operating models, and is known for translating rigorous research into auditable, scalable systems. Based in Minato, Japan, he focuses on enabling governments and enterprises to build compliant, high-performance clouds in boundary-driven environments.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Scotch CollegePh.D., Haemodynamics, Fluid mechanics, Numerical Methods, non-Newtonian flows, Thrombosis,, Ph.D., Haemodynamics, Fluid mechanics, Numerical Methods, non-Newtonian flows, Thrombosis, at Monash University
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Github Skills (126)
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
oscal-compass/compliance-trestle-demos
Apr 2021 - Nov 2021
Demo setup for compliance-trestle
Contributions:6 reviews, 16 commits, 15 PRs in 6 months
aemcomplianceeveaws
butler54/encrypted-control-planes
Nov 2023 - Jun 2024
Contributions:1 review, 70 PRs, 233 pushes in 7 months
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