Full Name
John Willis
Job Title
Senior Director Global Transformation Office
Company
Red Hat
Speaker Bio
John Willis is Senior Director of the Global Transformation Office at
Red Hat. Prior to Red Hat, he was the Director of Ecosystem Development
for Docker, which he joined after the company he co-founded
(SocketPlane, which focused on SDN for containers) was acquired by
Docker in February 2015. Before founding SocketPlane in the fall of
2014, John was the Chief DevOps Evangelist at Dell, which he joined
following the Enstratius acquisition in May 2013. He has also held
past executive roles at Chef and Canonical. John was one of the
earliest cloud evangelists and is considered one of the founders of
the DevOps movement. John is the author of seven IBM Redbooks. He is alsothe co-author of the “DevOps Handbook” and “Beyond the Phoenix
Project” along with author Gene Kim.
Red Hat. Prior to Red Hat, he was the Director of Ecosystem Development
for Docker, which he joined after the company he co-founded
(SocketPlane, which focused on SDN for containers) was acquired by
Docker in February 2015. Before founding SocketPlane in the fall of
2014, John was the Chief DevOps Evangelist at Dell, which he joined
following the Enstratius acquisition in May 2013. He has also held
past executive roles at Chef and Canonical. John was one of the
earliest cloud evangelists and is considered one of the founders of
the DevOps movement. John is the author of seven IBM Redbooks. He is alsothe co-author of the “DevOps Handbook” and “Beyond the Phoenix
Project” along with author Gene Kim.
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