Vinny Valdez is a senior principal consulting architect at Red Hat focused on engaging customers to solve strategic technology and business challenges utilizing open-source technologies, practices and methods.  He has extensive experience in delivering solutions leveraging Red Hat’s automation products such as Ansible and Ansible Tower, cloud products Red Hat OpenStack Platform, and infrastructure products Red Hat Virtualization, Red Hat Satellite among other base Red Hat Enterprise Linux components. He is deeply involved in architecture, delivery and support of high-quality implementations that result in the client’s confidence in Red Hat’s cloud offerings. Vinny works closely with clients, partners and internal teams to ensure solutions exceed client’s expectations while staying true to open-source and open standards. Vinny has extensive experience in both Technical and Practice domains, leveraging his wide and broad  expertise to provide value to his clients. He has worked as a systems administrator, software engineer, consultant and architect with internet service providers, global telco/service providers, global retail companies, financial services and many more. Vinny is an RHCA, RHCSS, RHCVA, RHCDS and RHCE who has over 20 years of IT experience and he joined Red Hat in 2007.