Summary
Jamie Longmuir is a Senior Principal Product Manager - Technical with 11 years focused on productizing complex open-source distributed systems, containers, orchestration and networking for enterprise hybrid cloud platforms. Currently at Red Hat he leads product efforts for OpenShift Service Mesh, turning Istio/Envoy/Kiali and related telemetry tools into a cohesive, operator-driven offering for hybrid Kubernetes customers. He has a rare blend of hands-on engineering experience (C/C++, embedded systems, cloud-native stacks) and product leadership honed at Lightbend where he unified Akka, Play and streaming tooling into a commercial Akka Platform. Jamie repeatedly fills critical gaps across product, engineering and field teams, shipping operational features, observability and operators to lower barriers for developers adopting stateful, distributed architectures. Based in Ottawa, he pairs technical depth with practical teaching and enablement—authoring training and diagnostic tooling—and has a track record of simplifying sophisticated tech into consumable, supported products.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Engineering Systems and Computer, Bachelors of Engineering Systems and Computer at Carleton University