Scott McCarty is a Solutions Architect for Ohio and Michigan at Red Hat. He has worked in data center operations at small start ups, online retail, large enterprise and government. He has focused on open source software/scripting, networking, security, and infrastructure at NASA, Alltel, American Greetings, and Gamesnake.com. He developed the Python based, open source, log analysis program Petit and has contributed code to several other open source projects including Cacti and Nagios.

Red Hat is the world's leading provider of open source solutions, leveraging a community-powered approach to provide reliable and high-performing cloud, virtualization, storage, Linux and middleware technologies. Red Hat also offers award-winning support, training and consulting services. As the connection point between a global network of enterprises, partners, and open source communities, Red Hat enables the creation of more relevant, innovative technologies that liberate resources for growth and prepare customers for the future of IT.

Scott is teaching DevOps With Bash Programming for Ohio LinuxFest 2012.