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Chad Ferman has over 25 years of industry experience in multiple industries including Retail, public sector and most recently Oil & Gas / Manufacturing as the Enterprise Architect for Automation and Kubernetes. He has been at Red Hat since March of 2021 where he is a Product Manager for Ansible Automation Platform. Chad is extremely passionate about automation, edge, hackathons and opensource methodologies to help empower people to solve real world problems.