Hugh Brock

Summary

* Currently Director of Engineering, Red Hat Research, Red Hat Office of the CTO * Previously Director of Engineering for Boston University Research Initiatives at Red Hat * Previously Director of Engineering for OpenStack Management at Red Hat * Previously senior engineering manager for Red Hat OpenStack Management. I led a team of 50 helping to develop native upstream deployment and management for OpenStack, via the TripleO and Tuskar projects. See http://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/TripleO . * Previously engineering manager for Red Hat CloudForms, a cross-cloud provisioning and management application in Ruby On Rails * Previously engineering manager and technical lead for oVirt Server Suite, a large scale virtualization management tool in Ruby on Rails * Previously helped build virt-manager, a Python application to manage virtual machines, with Red Hat Emerging Technologies. * Previously consulted at Goldman Sachs on Linux deployment and configuration management issues * Before that, consulted at UBS for two years on Java/Linux integration. Worked with MQ, Websphere, Oracle, COBOL on Linux * Lots of other Java and Oracle development, particularly around web content management, back to 1999. Specialties: Scaling and driving open source teams, managing geographically distributed teams, developing engineering talent from within an organization, cloud management application delivery, libvirt-based application development, Python/GTK application development, virtualization management, RHEL installation and testing, enterprise systems integration