/tags/red-hat/Recent content in Red-Hat on Chris WagnerHugo -- gohugo.ioencw@wagner.org.za (Chrisando Wagner)cw@wagner.org.za (Chrisando Wagner)© 2026 Chrisando WagnerMon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000/posts/technical-profile/Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000cw@wagner.org.za (Chrisando Wagner)/posts/technical-profile/<p>If you&rsquo;ve landed here from LinkedIn or a referral, this is the longer answer to &ldquo;what do you actually do?&rdquo;</p> <p>The short version: I design and build infrastructure, and increasingly I&rsquo;m the one deciding what infrastructure gets built. I have done so for 25 years — across datacentres, managed service environments, banking platforms, and my own homelab — using everything from Windows Server and VMware to OpenStack, Red Hat, and modern cloud-native stacks on Kubernetes. My current role is setting cloud and containerisation strategy for a regulated banking platform: the reference architectures other engineering teams build against, the guardrails that keep a POPIA and PCI-DSS environment audit-ready, and the FinOps governance that keeps cloud spend accountable at group level.</p>