Associate Principal Solution Architect, Red Hat

Sukrit is Associate Principal Solution Architect at Red Hat. He holds TOGAF and AWS certifications. He specializes in Application Services, Middleware and PaaS technologies. Sukrit has over 15 years of experience in IT industry. He holds MBA and Engineering degrees. Sukrit has also co-authored an IBM Redbook on Software Defined Data Center.

Sukrit has been involved architecting some of the major digital transformation programmes, closely working with large BFSI, Govt ministries and airlines in APAC. In his present role, he works closely with major GSIs across APAC to create technical solutions for customers with Red Hat offerings.

Principal Solution Architect, Red Hat

Viswanathan L Iyer (Vishy) is a Principal Solution Architect with the Global Partners & Alliances team at Red Hat, with an experience spanning diverse areas of distributed technology in the Banking & Financial Services domain (Corporate and Retail Banking, Cards & Payments, Capital Markets among others). Vishy’s current focus areas include positioning the Red Hat product portfolio in the Financial Services sector, allowing our partners and customers to maximize the benefits of their business solutions that are well complemented when run on the Red Hat portfolio of products and runtimes.

Technical Marketing Manager, Red Hat

Jaya Baskaran is a Technical Marketing Manager at Red Hat with the Cloud Services team. She focuses on building and delivery technical content, enablement material and workshops for our customers and internal teams to help raise awareness of our product stack and improve adoption of cloud services. In her previous role at Red Hat, as a Solution Architect she worked with Red Hat's global partners building technology portfolio awareness, joint solutions to address customer challenges, and ensure joint success. Prior to becoming a Red Hatter, for over 15 years she has worked as a developer and architect with large customers delivery enterprise full stack applications.

Sr Principal Architect, Red Hat

Karan Singh is a Senior Principal Architect & Developer Evangelist at Red Hat. In his role, Karan focuses on architecting and developing cloud-native composable solutions on Kubernetes. Part of his responsibilities is to enable developers and builders with rapidly changing cloud-native technologies. He holds a strong background in infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, data services, data analytics and product engineering. Karan is specialized in designing and building scalable and cloud-native distributed & event-driven systems, and he believes that better software deserves better architecture. He is also a published author, a frequent speaker at conferences, and an avid blogger at https://ksingh7.medium.com.

Product Manager, Red Hat

Kasturi Mohan is the Product Manager for Dev Spaces, Dev Sandbox and WTO, Kasturi has over 15+ years of experience spawning Services, Lean and Six Sigma, Product Marketing and Product Management. She is based in Bangalore India.

Principal Architect, Red Hat

Ritesh Shah is a Principal Architect of Cloud Technologies on the Red Hat Portfolio Technology team focusing on creating and using next-generation platforms, including AI/ML workloads, application modernization and deployment, and software-defined data storage.

Ritesh has been an advocate for open source technologies and products, focusing on modern platform architecture and design for critical business needs. Ritesh is passionate about next-generation platforms and how application teams, including data scientists, can use open source technologies to their advantage.

Principal Architect, Red Hat

Ritesh Shah is a Principal Architect of Cloud Technologies on the Red Hat Portfolio Technology team focusing on creating and using next-generation platforms, including AI/ML workloads, application modernization and deployment, and software-defined data storage.
Ritesh has been an advocate for open source technologies and products, focusing on modern platform architecture and design for critical business needs. Ritesh is passionate about next-generation platforms and how application teams, including data scientists, can use open source technologies to their advantage.

Associate Principal Solution Architect, Red Hat

Ramakrishna Reddy Yekulla, (Ramky) is a long time Red Hatter and is presently an Associate Principal Solution Architect with the Global Partners Solution Architecture in Red Hat.His focus is on leading the partner developer programs, developer engagement and Developer Relationship for the Global System Integrators and Partners. Prior to that, He was the Principal Software Engineer with Red Hat Storage. Ramky has been with Red Hat since 2005 beginning in the QA team, testing device drivers for an Intel Red Hat Community PC and testing I18N / L10N components for the RHEL Desktop and was the first engineer with Certification Engineering Team. He was the Technology Lead for the Red Hat OpenStack Certification, Software Certification, and ABI Assurance Group till 2016.He has designed, architected and developed the tools for the certification program processes for 5 distinct pieces in the PnT partner ecosystem in - Software Certification, Cloud Certification, Container Certification, Red Hat OpenStack Certification Test Suite, Software Test Suite, Kernel ABI Test Suite in the past.

Associate Principal Solution Architect, Red Hat

Sr Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

As Architect of the Kruize project, Dinakar is focused on Autonomous Performance Tuning and exploring the usage of ML and Hyper Parameter Optimization in the Performance domain specific to Kubernetes and Cloud. Dinakar previously worked on making the OpenJ9 JVM run more efficiently in the cloud and was the official maintainer of the AdoptOpenJDK Docker Images. Dinakar loves OpenSource, Astronomy and Volleyball and is a prolific speaker at conferences.

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As the Global Ecosystem Presales Leader focusing on our partnerships in the field, I have the opportunity to work with our customers and partners at all levels of the organization on how our products can improve their daily lives. Any type of change is difficult and removing the obstacles to do so increases customer loyalty and partnership.

I am a well-known public speaker, blogger, and moderator of events hosted by Red Hat, our customers and the industry. I specialize in digital transformations, platform implementations and education.

Previously I focused on selling and delivering consulting engagements and growing the Northeast services region.

Global Engineering Director, Red Hat

Shefali would like to introduce herself as a technology enthusiast, curious lifelong learner, innovator & enabler, mentor & a coach, volunteer & yoga proponent, author and vociferous reader.

Shefali is Global Engineering Director at Red Hat responsible for bootstrapping and growing OpenShift Engineering teams in Asia Pacific, Europe & North America regions. She is leading the product engineering teams responsible for OpenShift platform for Edge devices, Customer Focused and core OpenShift Engineering teams globally.

A seasoned IT professional with over two decades of experience, Shefali has donned various hats spanning management, strategy, product management, product engineering, solutioning & professional services working with Customers, System Integrators, Business Partners and ecosystem teams.

An active speaker at industry and technology conferences, Shefali is very passionate about incubations and first-of-a-kind software & product development in the areas of AI/ML, IoT & Hybrid Cloud platforms.

Ms. Bansal is an IIM B Alumni and an Engineering graduate with specialization in Computer Science. She is plateau holder in patents and has external publications in areas of Reliability Analytics, and awards like 'Best of Business Analytics', “Outstanding Technical Achievement Award”, “Client Success Awards”, “Industry Academy membership” & Industry recognitions like “Women in Technology” from Zinnov & “AI Game Changer” award from NASSCOM to her Credit. Her Inspiration story has been featured in India’s leading newspaper “Times of India”. As a budding author, she has published two books “Rediscovery journey of a corporate persona” & “Parijaat...The evening flower”.

Outside work, she loves to travel and volunteers for STEM education through an NGO.

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Senior Cloud Technical Architect, Accenture

Barnali is Senior Cloud Technical Architect in Accenture. She drives Hybrid Cloud, Application Modernization & digital transformation solutions, specialized in cloud native & container technologies.

ISV Technology Lead, RedHat

Vinay Rajagopal is ISV Technology Lead Architect for Partner Ecosytem at RedHat. As a Technology lead, he is responsible for helping Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) including IOT, AI/ML and Emerging technologies based partners to build products on RedHat stack, accelerate containerization and enabling them on go-to-market strategy. He brings over 20+ years app dev and platform experience. He is a BlockBolt certified product management professional. Has completed Design Thinking from MIT Emeritus, Business Management from LSE (London School of Economics and Political Science), Leadership and Strategy from JWMI (Jack Welch Management Institute). He holds several granted patents and published files. An open source enthusiast who is currently pursuing Masters in AI from Reva University.

George Drapeau is Senior Director of Partner Solutions and Technology in Red Hat’s Partner Ecosystem Success organization. He manages a global solutions architecture group, working with strategic partners to build joint offerings based on emerging technologies. The team works with global technology partners of every kind: software, hardware, Systems Integrators, public cloud service providers, and global distributors.

Before joining Red Hat in 2011, George’s background in software development included roles at Stanford University, Sun Microsystems, and Oracle.

George holds bachelor's and master's degrees in Computer Science from the University of Southern California. He and his wife and child live in the San Francisco Bay Area.