Scott McCarty

At Red Hat, Scott McCarty is a Global Senior Principal Product Manager for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, arguably the largest open source software business in the world. Focus areas include cloud, containers, workload expansion, and automation. Working closely with customers, partners, engineering teams, sales, marketing, other product teams, and even in the community, he combines personal experience with customer and partner feedback to enhance and tailor strategic capabilities in Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

McCarty is a social media start-up veteran, an e-commerce old timer, and a weathered government research technologist, with experience across a variety of organizations, from seven person startups to 25,000 employee technology companies. This has culminated in a unique perspective on open source software development, delivery, and maintenance.