Julia has seen things, and built things! Sounds ominous right? She started in Networking early in her career, and drifted through building data centers, hardcore systems engineering, and eventually the automation of the data center infrastructure! She is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, and serves on the Board of Directors of the OpenInfra Foundation. When she is not in meetings, she can sometimes be found working on the Ironic Project, which helps facilitate Bare Metal as a Service.

Presentations

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Forum - Ironic - Something Something Cloud Native Dark Side

A Forum Session to discuss the move of Ironic to better enable cloud-native workloads and use cases, and discuss other bare metal-related topics.

https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/openinfra-days-la-ironic-2025 

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OpenInfra Days North America Keynotes

Infrastructure lays the foundation for every daily function and open source drives innovation, cost savings, and adaptability. Together, open infrastructure has adapted to global and regional trends to disrupt proprietary market holds and drive human progress. In the face of recent trends, like licensing changes and redefining infrastructure for AI, open source communities are continuing to collaborate to evolve the projects behind an $8.8 trillion USD market. 

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OpenInfra Leadership Meet and Greet

Meet leaders from the OpenInfra Foundation, board and projects. 

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The death of hardware knowledge

As we have simplified technology, we have abstracted away details. As time has passed, the bulk of the interaction has moved to the simplified interactions. They became the preference due to speed, efficiency, and economics. Yet much is still constrained in the lower layers. We need the context to make informed decisions. We'll talk about the trend, and what to be mindful of as we continue to simplify technology.

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