Stephen Watt
Distinguished Engineer, Senior Director, Office Of The CTO at Red Hat
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolStephen Watt is a Distinguished Engineer and senior technology leader with 11 years in executive engineering roles, currently leading a 150-person Office of the CTO at Red Hat where he shapes research, community engagement, and emerging-technology strategy. He has a deep track record advancing and commercializing distributed systems, big data, cloud platforms, storage and edge computing—translating prototypes from Red Hat Research and Emerging Technologies into product portfolio wins. Previously he ran Red Hat’s Emerging Technologies and led big-data architecture and partnerships across Apache projects, and earlier founded HP’s Hadoop program and created IBM’s Hadoop distribution. Stephen combines hands-on technical credibility with executive strategy training from MIT Sloan, and he’s known for aligning open source communities, product teams and partner ecosystems to deliver at scale. An understated strength is his history of performance-focused engineering (record-setting Hadoop benchmarks and reference architectures) that bridges research ambition with production reliability.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Software Engineering, 3.94 GPA, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Software Engineering, 3.94 GPA at University of PhoenixExecutive Certificate in Strategy and Innovation, Executive Certificate in Strategy and Innovation at Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management
English, Afrikaans, Arabic
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Github Skills (71)
scheduling10
paas10
mesos10
continuous-testing10
continuous-delivery10
continuous-deployment10
kubernetes10
continuous-integration10
go10
openshift10
docker10
kubernetes-monitoring10
devops10
openshift-origin9
k8s9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
wattsteve/glusterfs-kubernetes
Sep 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 1 year 3 months
kubernetespodsglusterfs
wattsteve/kubernetes
Jan 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:25 commits, 23 pushes in 4 months
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