[davideg]

Looks like it's a silly and self-aware play on the word "builder" (New England regional dialect):

> Since I’m relatively new to the world of containers and images, I was excited to learn about the Buildah tool. Especially since I’m a native New Englander and it’s a clever play on how we say Builder in these parts. [0]

[0] https://buildah.io/blogs/2017/06/22/introducing-buildah.html

[ghaff]

That is correct. The person who largely had overall responsibility for Red Hat’s open source container tooling is a Boston area native.