Chris Alfonso has worked as a software engineer for nearly 15 years. Since joining Red Hat in January 2006, Chris has built many of the redhat.com web application and along they way has taken note of how complicated production systems and infrastructure are to setup. Chris has spent a great deal of time in the evolution of systems automation tools - from informal scripts, to configuration management, to infrastructure providers. Chris now spends his time working on automating the end-to-end setup of compute services needed to write and host applications using OpenShift, OpenStack, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Chris has a bachelor's degree from Utah Valley University and a master's degree from Colorado State University in Computer Science.