Security Symposium, Phoenix 2019

Chris has over 20 years of experience in IT and Software. Since joining Red Hat in 2005, Chris has been architecting solutions for strategic customers and partners and is a frequent speaker on DevOps, security, and containers. He started his career at Intel in IT and managed hosting followed by leadership roles in services and sales engineering at Loudcloud and Linux startups. Chris holds a Bachelors of Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Veer Muchandi is a container and PaaS evangelist. As a principal architect with Red Hat, he helps enterprises with container strategy, DevOps, and microservices strategy. He conducts strategy sessions, workshops, and education sessions to drive change. Veer is a well-known speaker and presents at several forums. He also is a blogger and runs OpenShift meetup groups in Atlanta and Jacksonville.

Brian Harrington, also known as “Redbeard,” was chief architect at CoreOS and is now the product manager for Istio at Red Hat. He is a developer, hacker, and technical writer in the areas of open source development and systems administration. His time spent in both defensive and offensive computing have combined with his readings of classical anarchism to present new ideas in organizational hierarchies for software development. Redbeard has been featured on Al Jazeera as an expert in the field of computer security, and he has been seen and heard on Bloomberg Television and National Public Radio. He was grudgingly elected president of the hackerspace, HacDC. Twitter: @brianredbeard

Dan Walsh is a Red Hat consulting engineer. Dan has led the Red Hat Container Engineering team since August 2013 but has been working on container technology for several years. He has made many contributions to the Docker project, has done a lot of the software development on the Atomic project, and has led the SELinux project, concentrating on applications and policy development. Dan helped develop sVirt, secure virtualization, and the SELinux sandbox, an early desktop container tool in Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 6. Prior to Red Hat, Dan worked at BindView (formerly Netect) on vulnerability assessment products and at Digital Equipment Corporation on the Athena project, as well as AltaVista on its firewall/tunnel (VPN) products. Twitter: @rhatdan

Iftikhar Khan is a senior manager responsible for leading Ansible Network Engineering team. He has over 18 years of experience designing, building, implementing, and automating global data networks. Before moving to Ansible Networking, he was managing Red Hat’s corporate IT Global Networking team. Iftikhar previously worked for SCANA Corporation (now Dominion Energy) in Columbia, South Carolina, securing their supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and corporate networks. He currently lives in Apex, North Carolina, with his wife and children. Twitter: @Ifty_k

Lucy Kerner is currently the global security technical strategist and evangelist at Red Hat and helps drive thought leadership and the global go-to-market strategy for security across the entire Red Hat portfolio. Lucy creates and delivers security-related technical content to the field, customers, and partners and has spoken at numerous internal and external events. She is a 2018, 2017, and 2016 Red Hat Summit Top Presenter. Prior to her current role, she was a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect for the North America Public Sector team at Red Hat. Lucy has over 15 years of professional experience as both a software and hardware development engineer and a pre-sales solutions architect. Prior to joining Red Hat, she worked at IBM as both a Mainframe microprocessor design engineer and a pre-sales solutions architect for IBM x86 servers. She has also interned at Apple, Cadence, Lockheed Martin, and MITRE, where she worked on both software and hardware development. Lucy graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with an MS and BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a minor in Spanish.