Building and managing containerized apps in the cloud

Chuck Svoboda is the Senior Director of Managed Services GTM, Global, responsible for the go-to-market and adoption strategies for Red Hat Managed Services such as Azure Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat OpenShift on Amazon. Chuck and his team ensures customer success by helping them focus on outcomes through applications without the toil of managing infrastructure or platforms.

With over twenty years of hands-on keyboard development experience, Chuck is a software developer at heart. He has owned development initiatives in data, middleware, and UX areas, leading multi-disciplined and geo-diverse teams. Chuck is excited to be working in the evolving world of Kubernetes cloud services and remains a tinkerer to emerging technologies.

Prior to joining Red Hat, Chuck was a Field Engineer at Pivotal Software, and a Lead Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton, championing the inaugural year of their Strategic Innovation Group. Preceding Booz Allen, Chuck was product owner of Asurion’s Financial Services IT vertical, enabling initiatives to establish a customer base in the EU and APAC regions.

Chuck relocated from his hometown, Kansas City Missouri, to the Washington DC area in 2011 where he currently resides. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Missouri. Additionally, Chuck is a PMI Project Management Professional. In his personal time, he enjoys alpine skiing, photography, and running.

Engage with Chuck at https://www.linkedin.com/in/crsvoboda/ and @Chuckernetes on Twitter.

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) is Sr. Director of Product Strategy in the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Business Unit, focused on OpenShift. He brings 20+ years of experience in Strategy, Product Management, Systems Engineering, Marketing and M&A. He has a BS/MBA from Wake Forest University.