Steve Ira
The Linux Foundation Vice President for IT
San Francisco Bay Area
Steve is the Vice President for IT at the Linux Foundation (LF), having been with the LF since 2017. LF IT provides technical services in the form of collaboration solutions, provisioning CI/DC environments and associated best practices for their use, and supporting cloud implementations to facilitate the mission of Open Source communities and associated projects. These solutions are as varied as the OS projects themselves, and range from self-service automation to turn-key CI environments and platforms for small to very large projects. Steve has held various senior IT management roles leading Engineering IT and DevOps teams for various international and startup companies including The Nokia Research Center, eBay, Bechtel, DigitalThink and OQO.