Dave Costakos
Director, OpenShift Sales at Red Hat
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Costakos is a sales and technical leader with 11 years in high-impact roles driving enterprise adoption of cloud-native and automation platforms, currently serving as Director of OpenShift Sales at Red Hat. He has a track record of building and scaling teams that exceed targets—managing portfolios exceeding $200M ARR and consistently delivering 120%+ quota attainment. His background blends deep engineering sensibilities (listed as Engineer @ Red Hat on GitHub) with hands-on solutions architecture experience across OpenStack, Ansible, and zero-trust technologies. He has led cross-functional teams at Red Hat, HashiCorp and Bloomberg, translating complex infrastructure requirements into repeatable go-to-market strategies. Based in San Diego, he pairs a rare combination of classical liberal arts education and an MS in computer science/electrical engineering, giving him both strategic communication skills and technical fluency. Peers describe him as the operator who can recruit, coach, and architect the processes that turn sophisticated engineering products into reliable enterprise revenue engines.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science Electrical Engineering, MS Computer Science Electrical Engineering at Franklin UniversityHigh School High School Stuff, High School High School Stuff at Upper Arlington High SchoolBachelor of Arts Classical Languages and Literature, Bachelor of Arts Classical Languages and Literature at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (19)
galaxy10
ansible-galaxy10
vcenter10
google-cloud-platform9
gcp9
depot8
ansible8
google-cloud8
devops8
terraform7
hat4
migration4
ruby4
imports4
aws3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dcostakos/miq-helper
Nov 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 3 pushes in 7 months
dcostakos/osp-director-helpers
Aug 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:4 PRs, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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