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Gerard Braad

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Background

Gerard is an engineering leader with deep experience in cross‑platform systems engineering, developer tooling, and open‑source collaboration. He led the teams behind CRC/OpenShift Local and JKube, delivering reliable developer environments across Linux, macOS, and Windows.

He combines strong technical judgment with architectural leadership, re‑engineering CRC to keep pace with OpenShift’s evolution and producing the only tool that can bring up a full OpenShift environment in about ten minutes. Gerard is known for people‑first leadership, supporting distributed teams through complex technical challenges and personal hardships while maintaining consistent, high‑quality delivery.

His work bridges low‑level systems engineering, developer experience, and cross‑team collaboration, making him a trusted partner for teams building developer tooling, platforms, and cross‑platform systems.

Employment history

  • Red Hat - Manager, Software Engineering
    January 2017 - July 2026 · 9+ years
  • UnitedStack - Technical Director
    November 2015 - December 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos
  • ThoughtWorks - Senior Full-stack Engineer
    November 2013 - September 2015 · 1 yr 10 mos
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Who am I?

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Portfolio

"music" "blog" "gauth" "jor1k" "Presentation - atomic" "presentation - flatpak" "Presentation - software distribution" "Presentation - CI/CD docker" "Presentation - openstack/openshift" "Presentation - opensource" "Presentation - MeeGo on arm" "Presentation - inspection and maintenance tools" "Public speaking" "Public speaking" "Public speaking" "Public speaking" "kernel patches" "Fedora" "OpenStack" "Kubernetes" "Atomic" "OpenShift" "Ansible" "PassportJS" "FirefoxOS - remotephone" "FirefoxOS - prompt" "Makermade" "Colinux" "Coding" "Visuals - Let There Be House" "ThoughtWorkshop" "Maker" "Sogyo" "Visuals - Let There Be House" "Visuals" "Visuals"

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  1. gbraad-apps/gauth gbraad-apps/gauth Public

    A simple application for multi-factor authentication, written in HTML using jQuery Mobile, jsSHA and LocalStorage.

    JavaScript 1k 260

  2. passport-saml-example passport-saml-example Public

    Forked from DanialK/PassportJS-Authentication

    PassportJS SAML example

    JavaScript 125 88

  3. crc-org/crc crc-org/crc Public

    CRC is a tool to help you run containers. It manages local VMs to run a OpenShift 4.x cluster, Microshift or Podman optimized for testing and development purposes

    Go 1.4k 255

  4. kubernetes/minikube kubernetes/minikube Public

    Run Kubernetes locally

    Go 31.7k 5.2k

  5. gbraad-apps/NDI-Whiteboard gbraad-apps/NDI-Whiteboard Public

    Easy to use Whiteboard application which outputs to NDI endpoint named Whiteboard.

    C# 46 5

  6. machinefile/machinefile machinefile/machinefile Public

    A simple executor that allows you to run `Dockerfile`/`Containerfile` commands directly on a local or remote host

    Go 3