Chris Bowland ( Presenter )

The atypical SLUUG member is quite extraordinary. So are our presenters.

Some are employed in the Information Technology field.
Some are not; but, are very interested in IT.

Some are well educated.
Some are not; but, are extremely experienced.

Some have families.
Some have non-technical hobbies, interests and even pets.

Chris is a Cloud Platform Solution Architect with Red Hat. A 20+ year IT veteran with experience in Helpdesk, Consulting, Enterprise Application Development, and Software Architecture, he enjoys helping people deliver high value solutions that leverage open source technology as a competitive advantage. Chris is currently focused on Kubernetes-based platforms as the best way to deliver cloud-native applications that are independent of any particular cloud provider.