Stephen is a Senior Specialist Solution Architect for Edge Computing at Red Hat, focused on running AI and infrastructure workloads at the far edge, on disconnected, air-gapped, and bandwidth-constrained networks where the cloud isn't always an option. He came up the hands-on way, architecting and securing servers, firewalls, and storage in data centers for banks, mutual fund firms, and pharmacies long before "cloud" was a job title. That foundation led him to co-found Linux Academy, the training platform that taught Linux, OpenStack, and cloud skills to tens of thousands of engineers worldwide. From there he moved into enterprise architecture and led cloud and infrastructure teams supporting critical services. At Red Hat, Stephen works with customers across defense, public safety, energy, and critical infrastructure. An open source die-hard at heart, he's happiest with his hands on the technology and a problem nobody else wants to touch. Away from the keyboard, you'll find him running N-scale model trains or building and painting miniatures at his hobby bench.
