Scott McCarty
Solutions Architect and Subject-Matter Expert, Containers, Go to Market, and Strategy, Red Hat

Website | @fatherlinux

Scott McCarty is a solutions architect and subject-matter expert at Red Hat, where he helps educate IT professionals, customers, and partners on all aspects of Linux containers, from organizational transformation to technical implementation, and advance Red Hat’s go-to-market strategy around containers and related technologies. He also liaises with engineering teams, both at the product and upstream project level, to help drive innovation by using feedback from Red Hat customers and partners as drivers to enhance and tailor container features and capabilities for the real world of enterprise IT. Scott is a social media startup veteran, an ecommerce old timer, and a weathered government research technologist, and he has served everywhere from seven-person startups to 8,000 employee technology companies—giving him a unique perspective on open source software development, delivery, and maintenance.