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About

Ricardo Gerardi is an experienced IT professional with over 25 years in customer-facing roles as a consultant, architect, and solutions engineer, specializing in networking, Kubernetes, containers, IT automation, and virtualization. Skilled in deploying complex environments using OpenShift, Kubernetes, Ansible, Go, and Linux, he has a track record of serving as a trusted advisor to strategic enterprise customers, with a proven ability to drive customer success, foster technology adoption, and provide strategic guidance.

He currently holds the position of Principal Consultant at Red Hat, where he specializes in Kubernetes, Ansible, and OpenShift.

He is the author of Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go (2021) and co-author of Automate Your Home Using Go (2024), both published by The Pragmatic Bookshelf. He has published more than 60 articles on the Red Hat Blog, opensource.com, Medium, and We Love Open Source, and has spoken about Go, Linux, containers, and automation at conferences, meetups, and on podcasts. He is passionate about technical enablement and knowledge sharing.

Originally from São Paulo, Brazil, he is currently based in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada.