Nathan Blackham

Nathan Blackham serves as Head of Linux Engineering at CIQ, where he manages the Linux Engineering team and leads the technical strategy for the company's Linux products. He focuses on building strong engineering teams and establishing a culture of excellence while overseeing CIQ's strategic Linux offerings.

With over 20 years of engineering and leadership experience, Nathan has an extensive background in building and developing Linux Operating System, including helping to build Amazon Linux and leading the engineering org to build and develop Amazon Linux 2023. Nathan brought this expertise to CIQ where led the development of Rocky Linux from CIQ (RLC) - Hardened and RLC-AI.