About

I’m Fabio Alessandro “Fale” Locati, Senior Principal Architect at Red Hat. For 20+ years I’ve helped organizations, from startups to Fortune 500s, architect the automation, cloud and security strategies they bet their business on, from vision through production, building systems designed to last.

Philosophy

Technology should be open, ethical, and built for people, not just profit. That’s the bar I hold everything I do to.

Experience and Focus

I own problems end to end: set the technical direction, build the proof at scale, then stick around to make sure it survives real-world operations.

• Automation strategy and Ansible at enterprise scale
• Kubernetes and container orchestration
• Hybrid and multi-cloud architectures (AWS, GCP)
• Security by design, compliance, and Infrastructure as Code
• IBM Z and IBM Power modernization through automation

I hold 30+ industry certifications across Red Hat (including RHCA), AWS, Google Cloud, IBM, Scrum.org, and CompTIA.

Public speaking and publications

100+ talks in 15+ countries over 18 years, at FOSDEM, CfgMgmtCamp, DevConf, DevOpsDays, AnsibleFest, Red Hat Summit, IBM TechXchange, and others. I tend to pick topics I wish someone had explained to me earlier.

I wrote 5 books on Ansible and OpenStack.

This blog has been running since 2000, with 200+ posts. It gets around 60k unique visitors and 170k hits per month.

Community

I care about open source beyond the code. I contribute to Kubernetes, Fedora, Ansible, Wikimedia, and OpenStreetMap, and I served on the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee. More on my community page.