Javier Perez

Passionate about technology and open source software, Javier is the Chief Open Source Evangelist and Senior Director of Product Management at Perforce Software. He is responsible for technical thought leadership and advocacy for open source software while driving the OpenLogic by Perforce offering. Javier has been in the application development, open source, cloud, app security, AI, SaaS, and mobile industries for 25+ years. As a speaker and blogger, he has had the opportunity to present at industry events all over the world. Javier holds an honors degree in Computer Systems and an MBA.

supply, risk, supply chain, API management Red Hat supply chain

The Great CentOS Linux Migration: How We Got Here and What’s Next

September 8, 2023 | AlmaLinux, CentOS, devops, Linux distributions, open source, red hat, rhel, Rocky Linux

Finding post-EOL support and patches will allow organizations to have a runway for the migration from CentOS to different Linux distributions ...

ChatGPT Web3 public cloud decision making

Friend or Foe? ChatGPT’s Impact on Open Source Software

June 2, 2023 | ai, ChatGPT, generative AI, open source, oss, software development

OpenAI’s ChatGPT took the world by storm, amassing 100 million users in the first two months after its public launch. The continued interest in the tool has created a buzz among developers, ...