Dr. Chris Butler is a Chief Architect in the APAC Field CTO Office at Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions. Chris, and his peers, engage with clients and partners who are stretching the boundaries of Red Hat's products. Chris is currently focused on the strategy and technology to enable regulated & multi-tenant environments, often for ‘digital sovereignty’. He has been doing this with Governments and Enterprise clients across Asia Pacific.
From a technology perspective Chris is focused on: Compliance as code with OSCAL Compass; Confidential Computing to enforce segregation between tenants and providers; enabling platforms to provide AI accelerators as a service.
Prior to joining Red Hat Chris has worked at AUCloud and IBM Research. At AUCloud Chris led a team who managed AUCloud’s productization strategy and technical architecture. Chris is responsible for the design of AUCloud's IaaS & PaaS platforms across all security classifications.
Chris spent 10 years within IBM in management and technical leadership roles finishing as a Senior Technical Staff Member. Chris is an experienced technical leader, having held positions responsible for: functional strategy within the IBM Research division (Financial Services); developing the IBM Global Technology Outlook; and as development manager of IBM Cloud Services.
