Vincent Valdez

About Vincent Valdez

Red Hat Certified Architect with over 20 years of experience with various IT infrastructure, operating systems, and automation* Subject matter expert on cloud computing, Linux, virtualization, storage, clustering and automation* Passion for scripting, automating processes, and improving efficiency * Excel at writing technical documentation aimed at varying audiences* Desire to work in a challenging, fast paced, efficient, collaborative environment* Expert knowledge of Red Hat\'s infrastructure, automation and cloud products* Excellent communication and project management skills* Complex problem solving and root cause analysis skills* Cross-platform integration skills* Able to work with little to no direction with comprehensive results* Converge abstract and operations goals with creative results* Video production for technical screencasts

Experience

1. Chief Architect - Automation Domain Specialist, North America Field CTO Organization

   Red Hat

   Aug 2025 — Present · IN, US

   Participate in Executive Briefing Center (EBC) sessions to capture future level requirements and gathjer them in a consistent manner* Understand and articulate the business requirements of customers and partners as well as their drivers for working with Red Hat* Serve as a subject matter expert in automation technologies and strategies to the technical sales community in your respective geography, ensuring that architectural patterns are reused in order to create Sales, Support and Engineering efficiencies* Understand both how to define an architecture and how to code as reusable patterns (GitOps/Config as Code), utilizing tools like Helm or Ansible* Debug code written by other engineers and, when needed, propose improvements (in the form of pull requests)* Serve as a key facilitator uniting sellers with Open Source community practices, enabling the sharing of that knowledge inside and outside of our company* Review any technical architecture proposals in the region before they are sent by the Solution Architect or SSA to customers

Education

• Austin Community College

  Online Self-paced Course, Ruby On Rails Development

  2012 — 2012

• Texas A&M University

  Computer Science, Information Services

  1993 — 1996

• The University of Texas at San Antonio

  General Studies

  1991 — 1993

Skills

• High Availability
• Agile Methodologies
• Video Production
• Screencasting
• Ruby
• Paas
• Virtualization
• Storage
• Cluster
• Openshift
• San
• Vmware
• Openstack
• Rhn Satellite
• Open Source Software
• Rhev
• Redhat
• Automation
• Windows Batch
• Oracle
• Cloud Computing
• Iscsi
• Troubleshooting
• Perl
• Red Hat Linux
• Graphics
• Operating Systems
• Iaas
• Open Source
• Architectures
• Storage Area Networks
• Integration
• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Data Center
• Architecture
• Python
• Scrum
• Ansible
• Rhel