Paul Mccarthy is an experienced engineering manager at Red Hat focused on Openshift AI model training, with 11 years of hands-on cloud and platform experience across API management, connectivity, and large-scale SaaS operations. He combines people-first leadership—managing and mentoring teams from interns to senior engineers—with product-focused delivery, coordinating roadmaps and prioritisation for teams of up to twenty. A strong proponent of the leader-leader model, Paul actively empowers engineers to speak up and take ownership, translating technical strategy into dependable, automated cloud systems. His background spans roles from cloud operations and DevOps to principal engineering, giving him deep operational insight into high-availability platforms and developer workflows. Based in Waterford, Ireland, he blends practical automation expertise with a track record of growing engineering talent inside open source-driven enterprise environments.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc (Hons) IT, Bsc (Hons) IT at Waterford Institute of Technology
Dummy Credentials repository to demonstrate how to bootstrap a tower instance with CI/CD jobs
Contributions:23 PRs, 18 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 3 months
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Paul Mccarthy - Engineering Manager, Openshift AI at Red Hat