Stephen Gordon

Geographically displaced Australian. Focused on building infrastructure solutions for compute use cases using a spectrum of virtualization, containerization, and bare-metal provisioning technologies. Stephen is currently a Manager, Product Management at Red Hat based in Toronto, Canada. He got his start in Open Source while building out and managing web-based solutions for the Earth Systems Science Computational Centre (ESSCC) at the University of Queensland. After graduating with degrees in Information Technology and Commerce Stephen took a multi-year detour into the wonderful world of the z-Series mainframe while writing new COBOL applications for the Australian Tax Office (ATO). Stephen then landed at Red Hat where he has grown his knowledge of the infrastructure space working across multiple roles and solutions including OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, and Red Hat Virtualization.

Currently focused on taking Red Hat's platforms to the edge, with a particular focus on telecommunications use cases including 5G Core, 5G RAN, and MEC.