Ian Lawson
Senior Principal Technical Product Manager at Red Hat
Hereford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Lawson is a Senior Principal Technical Product Manager and long-time Java technologist with over two decades of hands-on development experience and 11 years in senior technical leadership roles. Now an OpenShift evangelist at Red Hat, he blends deep expertise in SOA, search technologies (Lucene), web services, and mobile platforms with a strong Agile mindset to turn complex problems into elegant, scalable solutions. His career includes building proprietary search engines and mass-dataset search prototypes, reflecting a practical strength in high-accuracy, high-scale engineering. Equally comfortable in product and architecture roles, he has a history of shipping pragmatic open-source-friendly solutions and mentoring teams across EMEA. Based in Hereford, England, Ian pairs veteran-level Java pedigree (since Oak/1996) with a knack for simplifying distributed systems and developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BSc hons Computer Science, BSc hons Computer Science at Teesside University
Github Skills (69)
operator9
serverless9
minishift9
openshift9
development-tools8
container-cop8
k8s-operator8
api-client7
podman7
pipeline7
api7
configurations7
kubernetes7
policies7
compile7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
utherp0/ocpnode
Mar 2019 - Jun 2024
Example app for OCP demos - fast compile but with some useful features
Contributions:2 PRs, 47 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 4 months
applicationcompilenetteocp
utherp0/kneural
May 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:15 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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