Paul Christensen
Director, Partner Ecosystem Development at Red Hat
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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SeniorPaul Christensen is a Director of Partner Ecosystem Development with 11+ years of experience building technical partner programs and driving go-to-market growth at Red Hat. He combines deep hands-on technical roots—from Linux and virtualization to cloud-native containers and Kubernetes—with strategic leadership of globally distributed product, engineering, and partner teams. Paul built Red Hat’s container certification program from scratch, scaling it to hundreds of partners and thousands of application deployments, and now leads partner alliance models that align IBM product teams and vertical strategies to the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud. Known for explaining complex ideas with memorable metaphors, he is a roll-up-the-sleeves operator who moves ideas from concept to implementation and scale. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he blends telco, security SaaS, and open-source foundations to create repeatable partner-driven growth engines.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (8)
sdk8
operator7
scaffolding6
kubernetes5
webserver1
hat1
docker1
golang1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pchriste/testwebserver
Apr 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
pchriste/simplewebserver
Apr 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
golangwebserver
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