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William Henry is a software and IT enthusiast with over 30 years experience developing distributed applications and systems and service oriented architectures for both government and private industry. His background involves research in software development risk management. He has worked in software engineering, professional services, partner alliances, several management and director roles, and owned and successfully sold his own company. William joined Red Hat in the office of the CTO, in 2008, focusing on emerging technologies, including distributed messaging, high performance computing, and real time kernel. He currently works on the portfolio strategy, Linux container technologies, and DevOps/DevSecOps strategy. He travels globally explaining emerging technologies and how they can bring value to organizations when successfully deployed.