Dan Radez serves as Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at 4rivrs. With more than two decades of experience in cloud infrastructure and open source software, he drives technical innovation and platform scalability across the organization.

Prior to 4rivrs, Dan spent 17 years at Red Hat, where he led a lab team responsible for DevOps operations across OpenStack deployments, managed TryStack (a public cloud testing environment for the OpenStack project), and contributed to the development of OPNFV (an open platform for network function virtualization used in the telecommunications industry). His expertise spans cloud platform development, systems automation, DevOps, TELCO virtual networking, and container platform scale and performance testing.

In addition to his engineering leadership, Dan is the author of OpenStack Essentials and an international speaker who has helped shape industry understanding of cloud computing fundamentals. His presentations at global conferences have guided organizations worldwide in their adoption of cloud technologies.

At 4rivrs, Dan applies his proven track record in platform automation and scaling, as well as his experience leading high-performance engineering teams, to accelerate the company’s growth and position it as the industry leader in online EHS documentation.