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Bob McWhirter
Chief Architect, Cloud Computing, Middleware, Red Hat

As the Chief Architect for middleware cloud computing at Red Hat, Bob McWhirter 
leads a team of several engineers that is paving the way for the enterprise cloud 
computing paradigm shift. Named a Red Hat Fellow in 2009, McWhirter joined Red Hat
in 2007 and is responsible for navigating the cloud as it relates to JBoss middleware. 
He also leads the TorqueBox project, creating a Ruby application server on top of 
the core JBoss AS.

Prior to joining Red Hat, Bob served as a founding engineer at Radar Networks where 
he spent nearly 2 years working on the semantic-web platform Twine.com. He is also 
the founder of the Codehaus open-source community.

McWhirter attended The University of the South (Sewanee) and Auburn University.  
McWhirter resides in southwest Virginia with his wife, Rebecca, and son Noah. He 
enjoys woodworking and playing several instruments poorly.