Chris Ferris

Developer AdvocateSoftware Engineer

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An IBM Fellow and CTO Open Technology for IBM, Christopher has been involved in the architecture, design, and engineering of distributed systems for most of his 37+ year career in IT and has been actively engaged in open standards and open source development since 1999. He has technical responsibility for all of IBM's strategic open source and standards initiatives, including OpenStack, Cloud Foundry, Hyperledger, Open Container Initiative, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Node.js and Docker. He is a Maintainer of the Hyperledger Fabric project and member and former chair of the Hyperledger Technical Steering Committee.

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2021 is the year that open source overcomes its diversity problems

February 26, 2021
Blog Post

In the era of open hybrid cloud, open source skills matter more than proprietary software skills

February 9, 2021
Article

IBM's approach to open technology

April 1, 2020
Article

Open governance: It's all about community

April 1, 2020
Blog Post

What 5 new innovations will open source yield in the 2020s?

December 11, 2019
Event | Conference

ApacheCon Sept 2019 Las Vegas

September 9, 2019 11:00 am MDT
Blog Post

OASIS Open Projects bridges open source development and open standards development

May 8, 2019
Event | Conference

Red Hat Summit (NA)

May 7, 2019 8:00 am ADT
Tutorial

Private and confidential transactions with Hyperledger Fabric

May 11, 2018