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Kevin Barfield

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Director, Customer Engineering at Docker, Inc
📍 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Kevin Barfield is the Director of Customer Engineering at Docker, where he focuses on building strong technical teams to support customers. He previously had a long tenure at Red Hat in senior sales engineering leadership roles. He holds an M. S. from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and is an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.

Kevin has a background as a Java developer and architect. He is a passionate advocate for developers, recently highlighting Dockers initiative to release over 1, 000 hardened, secure images for free public use under an open-source license.

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Experience
15 Years
Current Role
Director, Customer Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Customer Engineering
His current role as Director of Customer Engineering at Docker and previous leadership positions at Red Hat are focused on pre-sales and customer success.
Building Technical Teams
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Career

Work history

8-2025
Director, Customer Engineering
Docker, Inc
11-2023 - 8-2025
Director of Solutions Architects
Docker, Inc
4-2023 - 11-2023
Principal Solutions Architect
Docker, Inc
12-2022 - 4-2023
Owner
Kevin Barfield Consulting
10-2020 - 11-2022
Senior Director, Specialist Sales Engineering
Red Hat
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Education
1989 - 1994
Master of Science (M.S.)
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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