DevConf.US 2025

Daniel Walsh

Daniel Walsh has worked in the computer security field for over 40 years. Dan is
a Senior Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat. He joined Red Hat in August 2001.
Dan is a lead architect of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Edge team concentration on In Vehicle Operation System. Prior he led the Container Runtime Engineering team. Dan has been working on container technologies for 17 years. Dan focusess on the CRI-O Container Runtime for Kubernets, Buildah for building container images, Podman for running and managing containers, containers/storage and containers/image. Authored the Podman in Action book. Formerly he led the SELinux project, concentrating on the application space and policy development. Dan helped developed sVirt, Secure Virtualization as well as the SELinux Sandbox. Previously, Dan worked Netect/Bindview's on Vulnerability Assessment Products and at Digital Equipment Corporation working on the Athena Project, AltaVista Firewall/Tunnel (VPN) Products. Dan has a BA in Mathematics from the College of the Holy Cross and a MS in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Twitter: rhatdan Blog: danwalsh.livejournal.com Email: dwalsh@redhat.com


Job title

Senior Distinquished Engineer

Company or affiliation

Red Hat


Sessions

09-19
10:30
80min
Container BOF
Daniel Walsh

BOF to discuss all things containers.

Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, and Hyperscale Infrastructure
Brookline Room (Capacity 30)
09-20
09:00
35min
What's new with RamaLama
Daniel Walsh

This talk will cover using AI with RamaLama. Will cover new features and a roadmap to the future.

Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, and Hyperscale Infrastructure
101 (Capacity 48)
09-20
16:30
35min
Dan Walsh Red Hat Obituary - Lessons learned with a career in software?
Daniel Walsh

This talk will cover Dan's history at Red Hat, from working with Paul Cormier prior to Red Hat. Early days of SELinux, where did it come from. Early days of OpenShift. Working with Docker, Fallout with Docker, Container tools, bootc, all through to RamaLama.

Open Track
Ladd Room (Capacity 96)