With a background in Software Engineering, Ken has spent his entire professional career in service of the public sector starting as a Flight Software Engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab. At Red Hat, Ken employs his subject matter expertise in automation and security to assist customers with intelligent IT transformation. Ken is a contributor to Kubernetes, has submitted multiple Ansible modules upstream, and has founded the Enterprise Linux Exploit Mapper project. Ken is a Red Hat Certified Architect as well as an Offensive Security Certified Expert.