x Red Hat OpenShift and IBM Cloud Paks on IBM Power Systems: Volume 1
Ricardo Dobelin Barros is an IBM Certified IT Specialist and IT Architect in Brazil. Ricardo 
joined IBM in 2002 and has a total of 20 years of experience in the IT industry. He works in 
the Sales Solutions group for IBM Services™ as pre-sales Technical Solution Architect. 
Ricardo has expertise in availability management, service-levels management, sizing, and 
performance tuning in operating systems. He also has experience in capacity planning, 
modelling, measurement, automation, virtualization, multicloud, and infrastructure 
management for many IBM clients in Brazil. Ricardo holds a bachelor degree in systems 
analysis, post-graduate in Teaching Degree in Higher Education. He also has Master of 
Business Administration in Strategic Management and Business Planning.
Daniel Casali is a Thought Leader Information Technology Specialist working for 15 years at 
IBM with Power Systems, high-performance computing, big data, and storage. His role at IBM 
is to bring to reality solutions that address client’s needs by exploring new technologies for 
different workloads. He is also fascinated by real multicloud implementations, always trying to 
abstract and simplify the new challenges of the heterogeneous architectures that are intrinsic 
to this new consumption model, be that on-premises or in the public cloud. 
Luis Ferreira is a Senior Software Engineer at IBM Austin, working on cloud containers, 
Kubernetes-related products, and cloud computing design and architecture. He holds a 
Master of Science degree from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Before 
joining IBM Austin, Luis worked at Tivoli® Systems as a Certified Tivoli Consultant, at IBM 
Brasil as a Certified IT Specialist, and at Cobra Computadores as a SOX Kernel developer 
and operating systems designer.
Alain Fisher is an IT specialist and DevOps Developer and supports many IBM development 
teams at the IBM Hursley Lab, UK. He holds a B.Sc. (Hons) degree in Computer Science 
from The Open University, England. He joined IBM in 2001 supporting DB2® middleware 
products, such as DB2, before moving to the Hursley Lab. His areas of expertise include the 
OpenStack cloud platform, cloud deployments, automation, and virtualization. He contributed 
to two other IBM Redbooks publications since 2005.
Federico Fros is an IT Specialist who works for IBM Global Technologies Services, leading 
the UNIX and Storage team for the IBM Innovation center in Uruguay. He has worked at IBM 
for more than 15 years, including 12 years in IBM Power Systems and IBM Storage. He is an 
IBM Certified Systems Expert for UNIX and high availability. His areas of expertise include 
IBM AIX®, Linux, PowerHA® SystemMirror®, IBM PowerVM®, SAN Networks, Cloud 
Computing, and IBM Storage Family, including IBM Spectrum® Scale. 
Luis Daniel Gonzalez is a System Administrator and an Automation Engineer on Power 
Systems in IBM Guadalajara, Mexico. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Cyber Security and 
Networking Engineering. He joined IBM in 2018 as an automation engineer, helping to 
automate Power Systems installation and configurations. He has experience in configuring 
Linux systems and services for 5 years.
Miguel Gomez Gonzalez is an IBM Power Systems Integration engineer who is based in 
Mexico with over 11 years experience in Linux and IBM Power Systems technologies. He has 
extensive experience in implementing several IBM Linux and AIX clustering solutions. His 
areas of expertise are Power Systems performance boost, virtualization, high availability, 
system administration, and test design. Miguel holds a Master in Information Technology 
Management from ITESM.
Mahesh Gurugunti is a Senior Solutions Architect at Red Hat in New York City. Mahesh is a 
seasoned technologist with experience in engineering, design, and architecture of IaaS,