Obituary - Lessons learned with a career in software?
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Career summary spans 24.5 years at Red Hat, starting with an NSA-funded $5M push to upstream SELinux and inventing the SELinux sandbox and MCS-based VM isolation (first patent); later building container tooling: Podman replaces Docker, CRI-O, buildah/builder and skopeo, removing Docker from RHEL; launched bootable images with bootc and delivered an image-mode demo tied to AI; created Ramalama to run local AI models in containers and drove Rivos functional-safety work that achieves certification.
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- 0:00Introduction and career path
- 1:22Early days and education
- 4:28Early professional career
- 7:37The road to Red Hat
- 13:16Joining the security team
- 17:32SELinux and innovation
- 24:26The shift to containers
- 28:50Building the container ecosystem
- 35:07Moving from Docker to Podman
- 37:13Functional safety and retirement
- 40:35Bootc and image mode
- 42:50AI initiatives and conclusion
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