Stephen Watt

Steve Watt is a distinguished engineer and leads the emerging technologies group within the Red Hat Office of the CTO.

His team is responsible for identifying and evaluating emerging technologies that may impact Red Hat's market, providing company direction and developing the emerging technology for commercialization. Prior to Red Hat, Watt was the founder of the Hadoop Business and Hadoop Chief Technologist at HP and a Software Architect and Master Inventor at IBM Emerging Technologies. Prior to IBM, he worked for a number of consumer-facing software startups in the USA and his native South Africa.