Cesar Saavedra

Cesar Saavedra, GitLab Staff Developer Advocate, focuses on AI across the entire SDLC, Continuous Delivery (CD) as well as Infrastructure-as-Code (GitOps) and how to apply DevOps practices to managing infrastructure on-premise, virtualized, hybrid and multi-cloud environments. He is also a co-founder of the Commonhaus Foundation, a non-profit open source foundation dedicated to the sustainability of open source libraries and frameworks. Prior to GitLab, he was a Red Hat Senior Principal Technical Product Marketing Manager for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP), Eclipse MicroProfile, OpenJDK, Jakarta EE, and Quarkus. In addition, he co-authored the book “Hands-On Enterprise Java Microservices with Eclipse MicroProfile” by PackT, has authored white papers and blog posts, participated in conferences as a speaker and delivered webinars to end customers, partners and internal audiences. He has over 30 years of IT experience, many of them in AI and DevOps fields, application server market, hybrid integration and API management. Before Red Hat, Cesar was at IBM, Oracle, BEA Systems, TIBCO, Lucent Technologies, and AT&T Bell Laboratories. In his spare time, Cesar enjoys spending time with his family, traveling and playing soccer.

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