Erin is currently the Director of Emerging Technologies  and Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat in the Office of the CTO. Erin was previously an Apple Cloud Services Engineer at Apple. Erin is a Kubernetes contributor and an Apache Ambari committer. Erin is an active contributor to the Kubernetes Storage SIG and is currently the co-chair of the CNCF Storage SIG. Erin's main focus today is centered around how to enable storage in a stateless, hybrid, multi-cloud environment. Prior to working at Red Hat, she worked at IBM for 14 years. Erin worked in embedded systems development for several years before moving into global enterprise level services. Erin lives outside of Bozeman, MT with her husband and 5 children. She is a robot enthusiast and FIRST robotics mentor. Her family owns and runs a karate dojo in which they volunteer a considerable amount of time to teaching and empowering all people, especially women and children. And in what spare time she has, she runs marathons.