Shane Heroux is a Principal Engineering Partner Manager at Red Hat, working at the intersection of open technology and partner ecosystems. His first Linux install was Slackware in the mid-'90s, where he found something bigger than software: a way of building things together that actually holds up.
Since joining Red Hat in 2018, he's worked across hybrid cloud, AI, and modernization efforts, translating technical complexity into outcomes that make sense for partners and customers. He works across product, engineering, and alliance leadership to align partner capabilities with what customers are actually trying to do, helping organizations build architectures that are open, adaptable, and built to last.
His approach combines technical depth with systems thinking and a humanities instinct. Open collaboration doesn't just scale platforms; it makes the whole ecosystem more useful.
