Rich Sharples

Rich Sharples is the Senior Director of Product Management of the Application Services organization at Red Hat. Sharples has spent 30 years advocating the use and design of enterprise middleware and cloud services.

He previously worked for Forte Software and Sun Microsystems as an independent software developer and consultant, building distributed software systems for the space, transport, telecom and energy sectors. Sharples served on the node.js Foundation Board of Directors and helped it transition from BDFL (“benevolent dictator for life”) to an open, independent foundation.