Scott McCarty

About 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 employee technology companies. This has culminated in a unique perspective on open source software development, delivery, and maintenance.

Experience

1. Global - Senior Principal Product Manager - Red Hat Enterprise Linux

   Red Hat

   Oct 2021 — Present

   In this key role, I\'m driving the strategy and vision for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, arguably the largest open source software business in the world. Together, we\'re building the next-generation Intelligent Operating System for the data center, at the Edge, and in key new verticals.In this role, I interface with key customers, engineers, sales, marketing, fellow product managers and community members to drive the roadmap for RHEL Server in areas such as security, performance, cloud, containers, workload expansion, manageability, and automation. This role includes driving the roadmap for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for customers, as well as building a strong foundation for other Red Hat products such as OpenShift, OpenStack, Middleware and Managed Services offerings.

Education

• The University of Akron

  Bachelors, Anthropology, Computer Science

  1997 — 2007