Summary
Samson Wick is a seasoned infrastructure and cloud leader with over 17 years of UNIX/Linux systems engineering experience and a decade of enterprise-level virtualization, automation, and directory/DNS architecture. Currently Sr. Manager, Tech Sales at Red Hat, he builds and enables high-performance pre/post-sales teams supporting OpenShift, Ansible, Cloud Services and RHEL, blending deep hands-on automation expertise with customer-facing strategy. He has a strong track record designing CloudForms, Satellite, Insights and OpenShift solutions, migrating complex environments, and producing technical publications and solution blueprints. Certified across Red Hat, SUSE and Solaris and experienced with VMware, Azure, SAP and enterprise storage/clustering, he’s equally comfortable troubleshooting Level 3 escalations and leading cross-functional product-engineering engagements. A pragmatic engineer with a long habit of scripting and tooling (BASH, Ruby, PowerShell, SQL and more), he often delivers creative, open-source or zero-cost alternatives to proprietary tooling. Based in Omaha, he pairs relentless operational rigor with a customer-centric approach to cloud adoption and platform growth.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
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