Eric IT Guy Hendricks

Personal Details

Bio

Eric “The IT Guy” Hendricks is a Technical Marketing Manager for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as well as the host of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Presents, a podcaster, and open source evangelist. Eric has 15 years of IT experience; he started out as a Systems Administrator specializing in Linux before moving into technical marketing.

Current position (1)

Technical Marketing Manager

Red Hat

Degrees (2)

Network Communications Management

DeVry University

2007 to 2009

Information Systems Management

Keller Graduate School

2012 to 2014

Presentations

Presentations (2)

Getting Started with Open Source

So, you are interested in technology, you want to contribute to something bigger than yourself, you can't wait to join a global community...but where do you start? Is coding the only way in? Let's take a practical look at how to go from consumer to contributor!

Busting Open Source Security Myths

Developers are constantly being asked to make more and more powerful applications. The more feature-rich the application, though, the more prone to risk it becomes. Many have thought the solution is to keep the code base locked up tight, that open source is undesirable. The truth, however, is quite the opposite! More eyes on code has proven to increase the quality and security of the modern application.

Workshops (1)

Getting Started with Git

1 hour

Past talks (6)

GitLab Takes You From Idea to Production

South East Linux Fest 2019

Charlotte, NC

June 17, 2019

Busting Open Source Security Myths

South East Linux Fest 2019

Charlotte, NC

June 16, 2019