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Stu Gott
Principal Software Engineer
IBM / Red Hat
Stu is a software engineer at Red Hat, and has been a strong advocate of open source ever since he first started using Linux in the late 1990s. After leaving the Navy in 2005, Stu has been a software engineer focused in various areas including virtualization/containerization and package management.