Steven Ellis
Principal Porfolio Architect - APAC Office Of Technology at Red Hat
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolSteven Ellis is a Principal Portfolio Architect based in Auckland with over three decades immersed in open source and 11 years of focused enterprise experience driving cloud and infrastructure strategy across APAC at Red Hat. He leads cloud infrastructure initiatives—particularly RHEL and OpenShift—while curating product demos and advising customers on Kubernetes, software-defined storage, and cloud-native transformation. A long-time open source evangelist and speaker, he has contributed to projects and conferences for 20+ years and helped bring linux.conf.au to Auckland as Vice Chair in 2015. His background spans hands-on product engineering, virtualisation, and CI/CD from early work building consumer Linux appliances to enterprise-grade platform design at IBM and Vodafone. Known for bridging deep technical know-how with field-facing evangelism, he combines architecture, product management, and community leadership to accelerate adoption of open technologies. Notably, he pairs enterprise strategy with practical operational experience—having built and supported production Linux infrastructures and remote-support models for consumer and enterprise customers.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
New Heys Comprehensive, LiverpoolBSc Maths Computer Science, BSc Maths Computer Science at University of York
English, Italian, French
Github Skills (133)
tasmota9
acs9
linux9
photography9
vsphere9
hat9
vms9
esp329
esp82669
docker9
arduino9
libvirt9
networkmanager9
podman8
pods8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
steven-ellis/ansible-playpen
Jan 2017 - Apr 2018
Sample ansible playbooks used for simple Linux operational tasks
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
steven-ellis/leapp2rhel
Mar 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:35 commits, 26 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
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