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Stephen Watt
Distinguished Engineer & Vice President, Office of the CTO
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Steve Watt is a Distinguished Engineer and leads the Red Hat Office of the CTO, which includes the Research, Emerging Technologies and Open Source Program Office organizations. Prior to joining Red Hat, Steve 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, Steve worked for a number of consumer facing software startups in the USA and his native South Africa.