Chris Wright

CTO of Red Hat; Expert on Open Software & Software Engineering

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Chris Wright Biography

Chris Wright is vice president and chief technology officer (CTO) at Red Hat. Wright leads the Office of the CTO, which is responsible for incubating emerging technologies and developing forward-looking perspectives on innovations such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, distributed storage, software defined networking and network functions virtualization, containers, automation and continuous delivery, and distributed ledger.

During his more than 20 years as a software engineer, Wright has worked in the telecommunications industry on high availability and distributed systems, and in the Linux industry on security, virtualization, and networking. He has been a Linux developer for more than 15 years, most of that time spent working deep in the Linux kernel. He is passionate about open source software serving as the foundation for next generation IT systems. He lives in sunny Portland, Oregon, where he is happily engaged in open source projects such as OpenDaylight, Open vSwitch, OPNFV, OpenStack, Open Container Initiative, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Chris Wright Videos

  • Chris Wright, Red Hat | Red Hat Summit 2019
  • Scott Sneddon, Juniper Networks & Chris Wright, Red Hat | KubeCon 2018
  • Chris Wright, Red Hat | KubeCon 2016

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