Individual Member Profile
Julia Kreger
To learn, leverage, and help evolve.
I started my working career in technology close to twenty years ago. It has surely not been an average career, but a career where I've continually learned and evolved to fulfill the need. In a sense, it all started with Linux and answering some questions about installing Linux. This started a journey into computer networking and eventually shifted to a systems engineering focus with a stop-over in data center operations.
The DevOps movement lead me more into software development and the operationalization of software due to the need to automate large scale systems deployments. This required bringing an operational perspective while bridging to the requirements, and often required digging deep into the underlying code to solve the problem of the day.
In a sense, I found a home in OpenStack in 2014 and the Ironic project in 2015 because of many years spent working with physical hardware in data centers.
I presently work for Red Hat as a Principal Software Engineer, where my upstream focus has been Ironic for the past few years, and my downstream focus has been on helping lead adoption and use of Ironic.
- Red Hat - From 2017-12-04 (Current)
- HP Cloud - From 2014-05-21 To 2015-10-31
- I Fight for the Users Cup - Berlin 2018
I'm involved in the following OpenStack projects: Bare Metal Provisioning Service (Ironic),Bifrost,Ironic,Openstacksdk
- Demystifying Ironic’s Access Control model
- Open At the bottom - Secure Open Infra at the physical layer
- API Performance - A journey down the rabbit hole
- Quick, Solid, and Automatic - OpenStack Bare-metal Orchestration
- Ironic - Snapshots?
- Ironic Operator Feedback
- Ironically Reeling in Large-scale Bare Metal Deployment Without PXE
- OpenStack Ironic and Bare Metal Infrastructure: All Abstractions Start Somewhere
- Ironic - Project Update
- Ironic - Project Onboarding
- Technical Committee Vision Retrospective
- OpenStack: Bare Metal Clouds & Beyond
- Ironic - Project Update
- Ironic - Project Onboarding
- Ironic Operator Feedback
- SmartNics, Ironic, and Neutron
- Community outreach when culture, time zones, and language differ
Julia is a candidate in the January 2026 Board Elections .
Julia has been nominated enough times to appear on the election ballot. You can read the answers Julia gave to the election questions below.
Foremost, I feel OpenInfra is important to provide users with options and choice which they can control to meet their needs. That is ultimately the greatest power we can give our users. I think my greatest contribution to this point has been my work on the board. To be pragmatic and work with the staff to further and support our communities.
I have served on the OpenInfra board for several years now, including as Vice-Chair and Chair. I've served on and consulted with some smaller community non-profit boards in the past and those roles didn't as much prepare me but re-enforced the reality of making progress was reaching a consensus.
I see the Governing board as critical as the top level goal and advice engine to set direction.
It is clear to me that we're in a time of change where the world is re-evaluating technology decisions. It is key to embrace change while also controlling our own project's destinies by advocating for ourself and using our own words to advocate for ourselves in the world as the world focuses on sovereign operations.
Julia has already been nominated by:
- Amy Marrich
- Tony Breeds
- Allison Randal
- Mohammed Naser
- Ghanshyam Maan
- Kurt Garloff
- Jeremy Stanley
- ChangBo Guo
- Allison Price
- Mark Collier
- Wes Wilson
