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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Blog May 08, 2019

OASIS Open Projects bridges open source development and open standards development

OASIS Open Projects seeks to combine the innovation and agility of open source development with the governance of open standards…
Article Mar 19, 2019

IBM's approach to open technology

Learn how IBM has played, and continues to play, a leading role in the evolution of open source and how…

Artificial intelligenceCloud+
Dojo Feb 15, 2019

Todd Moore and Chris Ferris on "building your resumé out in the open"

Todd Moore and Chris Ferris discuss the importance of developers participating in open source.

Cloud
Tutorial May 11, 2018

Private and confidential transactions with Hyperledger Fabric

Discover the mechanisms provided by Hyperledger Fabric to accommodate different levels of privacy and confidentiality for different network needs.

Blockchain