Federico Lucifredi

Product Management Director

IBM | Red Hat

Personal Website

Federico Lucifredi is the Product Management Director for Ceph Storage at IBM and Red Hat and a co-author of O’Reilly’s “Peccary Book” on AWS System Administration. Previously, he was the Ubuntu Server product manager at Canonical, where he oversaw a broad portfolio and the rise of Ubuntu Server to the rank of most popular OS on Amazon AWS. A software engineer-turned-manager at the Novell corporation, he was part of the SUSE Linux team, overseeing the update lifecycle and delivery stack of a $150 million maintenance business. A CIO and a network software architect at advanced technology and embedded Linux startups, Federico was also a lecturer for over 200 students in Boston University’s graduate and undergraduate programs, and simultaneously a consultant for MIT implementing fluid-dynamics simulations in Java.