
Dr. Leigh Griffin
Senior Research Manager, Ireland, Red Hat Research
Leigh helps to look after the Irish team focused on EU Horizon Projects and wider academic engagements in Ireland. He comes from a research background having completed his PhD in 2012 in Walton Institute, a research center as part of the South East Technological University. His research area was around security for group management of interconnected services, a precursor to many concepts in modern microservices. Post PhD he worked as a software engineer and gravitated towards process improvement and later Engineering Leadership. In his time in Red Hat, Leigh has continued to actively research emerging areas with over 280 US Patents submitted through Red Hat in diverse domains from Quantum Computing through to Artificial Intelligence