Craig Brandt
Senior Principal Product Manager at Red Hat
Leinster, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolCraig Brandt is a Senior Principal Product Manager at Red Hat with seven years of focused experience driving Ansible Automation Platform strategy, productization, and go-to-market technical enablement. He blends hands-on solution architecture and cloud/DevOps expertise—spanning Ansible, OpenShift/Kubernetes, containerization, and public cloud Linux—with a knack for technical marketing, workshops, and conference presentations. At Red Hat he has moved between roles from Senior Solution Architect to Principal Technical Marketing Manager, shaping both customer-facing content and the end-to-end product vision. His open-source work includes modernizing the ansible/workshops training repo (migrating content to AAP 2.0 and configuring Ansible Navigator), showing attention to practical developer experience and security in training environments. Based in Leinster, Ireland, he pairs deep certification-backed technical skills (RHCSA/RHCE, OpenShift, Ansible) with an educator’s drive to enable customers and partners. Colleagues describe him as self-managed, team-focused, and consistently seeking creative ways to close product gaps and improve automation outcomes.
7 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation Information Technology, Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation Information Technology at Red HatMikrotik Routing and Firewall Specialist, Mikrotik Routing and Firewall Specialist at MikrotikProfessional Diploma in Cybersecurity Cybersecurity, Professional Diploma in Cybersecurity Cybersecurity at University College DublinRHCSA (Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator ), RHCSA (Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator ) at Red Hat via Torque-ITRHCE 6 (Red Hat System Engineer RHEL 6), RHCE 6 (Red Hat System Engineer RHEL 6) at Torque-ITMCSE MCP+I MCP, MCSE MCP+I MCP at Abraxas TechnologiesCCNA, CCNA at Torque ITHigh Impact Presentations Presentation Effectivenes, High Impact Presentations Presentation Effectivenes at Dale Carnegie Training South Africa
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (15)
automation10
ansible-galaxy10
automations10
automation-testing10
devops10
ansible10
sec9
security9
it-security9
docker8
podman8
dockers8
yaml7
rhel6
networking5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/workshops
Aug 2019 - Oct 2022
Training Course for Ansible Automation Platform
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:17 reviews, 195 commits, 59 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Craig primarily focused on configuring and updating the Ansible automation platform training course. Their contributions involved removing references to "Tower," replacing commands and text with AAP 2.0, and configuring Ansible Navigator. The user also made changes related to security features, including implementing and modifying execution environments for Ansible Navigator, updating images, and adjusting various configuration files. These changes suggest a focus on modernizing and adapting the workshop environment.
rhelnetwork-automationansiblenetworkingvyos
craig-br/demos
Sep 2022 - Oct 2023
My demos and doodles
Contributions:3 reviews, 37 PRs, 157 pushes in 1 year 1 month
doodles
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