Chris Negus is a Red Hat Certified Instructor (RHCI), Red Hat Certified Examiner (RHCX), Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA), and Principal Technical Writer for Red Hat Inc. In more than six years with Red Hat, Chris has taught hundreds of IT professionals aspiring to become Red Hat Certified Engineers (RHCE).
In his current position at Red Hat, Chris produces articles for the Red Hat Customer Portal. The projects he works on include Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat Enterprise OpenStack Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Linux containers in Docker format.
Besides his RHCA certification, Chris is a Red Hat Certified Virtualization Administrator (RHCVA) and Red Hat Certified Datacenter Specialist (RHCDS). He also has certificates of expertise in Deployment and Systems Management, Clustering and Storage Management, Cloud Storage, and Server Hardening.
Before joining Red Hat, Chris wrote or co-wrote dozens of books on Linux and UNIX, including Red Hat Linux Bible (all editions), CentOS Bible, Fedora Bible, Linux Troubleshooting Bible, Linux Toys and Linux Toys II. Chris also co-authored several books for the Linux Toolbox series for power users: Fedora Linux Toolbox, SUSE Linux Toolbox, Ubuntu Linux Toolbox, Mac OS X Toolbox, and BSD UNIX Toolbox.
For eight years Chris worked with the organization at AT&t that developed UNIX before moving to Utah to help contribute to Novell's UnixWare project in the early 1990s. When not writing about Linux, Chris enjoys playing soccer and just hanging out with his wife, Sheree, and son, Seth.