James Laska
Senior Director Software Engineering at Red Hat
- Role
- Senior Director of Software Engineering at Red Hat
- Location
- Raleigh, NC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About James Laska
Senior Engineering Director with a technical background in development and quality engineering for both on-prem software as well as container-based managed services. Experienced in management of numerous software engineering disciplines including Development, Quality, Documentation, User Experience, and Release management and service operation teams. Strongly believe in developing leaders, both technical and management, throughout an organization to combine strengths, and overcome gaps, for successful business outcomes.Other relevant experience- Managing teams of 150+ associates and 15+ managers (include directors)- Capable working with distributed and global engineering teams - Raised on open-source development model and practices - Passionate about developing associates and turning the volume to 11 on their strengths and talents - Engineering responsibility for a variety of products over career at Red Hat, including Red Hat Ansible Tower, Red Hat Insights, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes, Red Hat Openshift Cluster Manager
Experience
Senior Director of Software Engineering
Oct 2021 — Present
Responsible for multiple engineering teams and products including the self-managed products Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes (formerly StackRox) as well as the managed service offering Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager.
Education
Penn State University
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Engineering
Skills
- Software Quality
- Python
- Rhel
- Rhev
- Red Hat Cloudforms
- Redhat
- Open Source
- Selenium
- Test Automation
- Software Quality Assurance
- Test Planning
- Bugzilla
- Agile Methodologies
- Testing
- Fedora
- Shell Scripting
- Amazon Web Services (Aws)
- Git
- Ansible
- Bash
- Linux
- Cloud Computing
- Unix
- Quality Assurance
- Red Hat Linux
- Linux System Administration
- Open Source Software
- Apache
- Stuff
- Things
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