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Explore the career journey and lessons learned from Daniel Walsh's extensive tenure at Red Hat in this 39-minute conference talk from DevConf.CZ 2025. Discover Walsh's professional history beginning with his collaboration with Paul Cormier before joining Red Hat, and trace the evolution of key technologies he helped develop. Learn about the origins and early development of SELinux, the foundational days of OpenShift, and Walsh's work with Docker including the subsequent fallout that led to alternative approaches. Examine the development of container tools, bootc, and RamaLama, gaining insights into how these technologies evolved and the strategic decisions that shaped their development. Understand the broader lessons about software development careers, technology evolution, and the challenges of working in open source enterprise environments through the perspective of a veteran Red Hat engineer.