DevConf.IN 2025

Ajay Desai

Associate Principal Specialist Solution Architect, Application Platform, Red Hat APAC

Ajay Desai is Associate Principal Specialist Solution Architect in Red Hat with overall 19 years of IT professional experience in architecting, designing & delivering Complex Applications in Hybrid Cloud Platform across multiple domains including BFSI, Telecom, Manufacturing, etc. He comes from a Java Application Development Background and carries expert skills on integration technologies.

In his current Role at Red Hat, Ajay works closely with Enterprise set of customers and assists them in digitally transforming and modernizing their businesses using Red Hat Open Hybrid Cloud approach.


Company or affiliation

Red Hat India Pvt. Ltd

Job title

Specialist Solution Architect


Session

03-01
10:55
35min
OpenShift virtualization – your hidden IT power
Rahul Damle, Ajay Desai

OpenShift is best known for running container-based applications at scale. However, not every application can be or should be containerized. Resource-constrained corporate IT shops now contend with supporting modern, cloud-native applications, monolithic databases, and virtual machine-based solutions. OpenShift Virtualization closes the gap between modern cloud-native architectures and those virtual-machine based solutions. Learn from our experts about OpenShift Virtualization and Experience a modern application platform for your virtual machines.

Cloud, Edge, and Platform Technologies
Torna Room | Chanakya Building / School of Business (capacity 200)