DevConf.IN 2026

Aarti Jha is a Principal Data Scientist at Red Hat, where she develops AI-driven solutions to streamline internal processes and reduce operational costs. She brings over 7 years of experience in building and deploying data science and machine learning solutions across industry domains. She is an active public speaker and frequently presents at developer and data-science conferences, focusing on practical approaches to applied AI and LLMs.

SDE 2 Red Hat Data and AI | GSoC Mentor | LFX CNCF-Kubestellar | Maintainer and Steering Committee Member at AsyncAPI

Software Engineer at Red Hat, specialising in cloud native AI and Kubernetes infrastructure.
An active open-source contributor to CNCF projects as well as OpenSource communities - Kubeflow and Ray, with experience in cloud-native AI/ML platform development and distributed systems architecture.

Cloud-Native Developer passionate about building scalable, secure, and developer-friendly platforms.

Engineer and problem-solver , Loves exploring new technology, read about finance and politics.

Architect & Technical Lead – AI & Master Data Management Solutions, Red Hat

Abhishek Kumar is an experienced software engineer and technology architect with over 15 years of expertise in backend development, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures. In his current role at Red Hat, Abhishek serves as an Architect and Technical Lead for AI and Master Data Management (MDM) solutions, where he designs and implements large-scale, intelligent data platforms that power enterprise transformation.

With a strong foundation in technologies such as Java, Python, MySQL, PostgreSQL, AWS, GCP, Apache Camel, Quarkus, and Spring Boot, Abhishek has built and optimized scalable, fault-tolerant, and high-performing systems that align with modern data governance and digital innovation needs. His experience spans the full software development lifecycle, leveraging agile methodologies and driving continuous improvement in engineering practices.

At the forefront of Red Hat's AI initiatives, Abhishek is actively building Agentic solutions using AI agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP) to automate and enhance core business operations. He combines deep technical expertise with strategic vision to integrate AI-driven automation and intelligent data processing into enterprise ecosystems.

A collaborative leader and mentor, Abhishek takes pride in guiding and empowering teams, conducting AI and MDM workshops, and sharing knowledge across the engineering community. Passionate about learning and innovation, he is dedicated to leveraging technology to build solutions that create real-world impact and accelerate digital intelligence.

Abhishek is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, specialising in OpenShift, OpenStack, and RHEL

Abhishek leads initiatives to certify third-party hardware and software compatibility within the Red Hat ecosystem

I’m a Software Engineer at Red Hat and a current M.Tech AI student at IIT Jodhpur. I’ve been in tech for about four years and love working on cloud-native systems, applied AI, and the open-source ecosystem. I enjoy exploring how modern AI tools can be integrated into real production environments and sharing what I learn with the community.

Snowflake Developer @ Arisdata

I am a Frontend Engineer currently working as an Associate Software Engineer at Red Hat. I have a strong interest in building modern web applications and enjoy exploring different areas of software engineering, including full-stack development, DevOps, and AI/ML. I am passionate about learning new technologies and sharing knowledge through the developer community.

Aftab is a DevOps Engineer specializing in cloud-native technologies, Observability, and platform reliability. He's an also a Grafana Champion and an active open-source contributor to the Cloud-Native ecosystem. With expertise in Cloud, Containerization, and Observability, he builds reliable platforms and contributes to open-source projects. He is also a frequent speaker at tech conferences, and actively shares his insights through talks, workshops, and community meetups.

Senior Software Engineer with 6+ years of experience designing and building scalable microservices and Kubernetes operators. Actively involved in the Kubernetes ecosystem, with hands-on expertise in controller-runtime, CRDs, and cloud-native architectures. A passionate open-source contributor, I enjoy collaborating with the community to improve reliability, operability, and developer experience across projects. Always eager to learn, experiment with new technologies, and drive innovation by solving real-world problems at scale.

Principal Software Engineer in The Collective team. Responsible for SBOM lifecycle in Konflux.

I’m a Software Engineer with 4 years of experience turning complex backend and cloud-native challenges into reliable, scalable solutions. My toolkit includes Java, Go, AWS, Kubernetes, and OpenShift. Lately, I’ve been deep in the world of CI/CD and GitOps, contributing to ArgoCD and GitOps Operators to make infrastructure more predictable and resilient.

Senior Director, APAC SA and Adoption Leader, Tech Sales, Red Hat

RHOAI Engineering Manager

I'm a passionate developer from India working on OpenShift GitOps and Kubernetes operators. I'm actively expanding my expertise in Kubernetes operators, exploring how declarative infrastructure and intelligent automation can simplify complex cloud architectures. My work bridges the gap between cutting-edge technology and practical enterprise applications.
When not coding, Anand draws inspiration from anime, manga, and thought-provoking conversations on the JRE podcast.

Andreas is leading the MSR vertical efforts as part of Red Hat's Field CTO organisation in Asia-Pacific.
A core focus is currently distributed computing and related architectures.

Andreas has worked on a wide range of topics across different industries in Europe, North America and APAC including full-scale automotive JIT/JIS production sytems, ERP migrations, HR, Finance and accounting and delivered supply chain logistics transformation programmes and scalable core banking strategies to support APAC wide business growth strategies.

Andrew Block is a Distinguished Architect at Red Hat who works with organizations to adopt Open Source solutions with a focus on Cloud Native, security and emerging technologies. Andrew is the author of multiple technical publications and frequently shares his knowledge and experiences related to relevant industry topics. He is a recognized leader, maintainer and contributor within the Open Source community, and partners with organizations to help incorporate Open Source practices and their benefits.

Hello, I am Angad Tewari an Associate Software Developer at Red Hat with two years of experience in this field. My work mostly revolves around Python development, automation, and tooling. I try to focus on improving developer workflows, building reliable systems, and explaining technical concepts in a practical and accessible way.

A Software Engineer at Red Hat, working on Openshift AI with focus on Feast, the open-source feature store powering real-world ML systems. With deep experience in distributed systems, Kubernetes, and ML pipelines, I love turning complex data problems into simple, elegant engineering solutions.

If not messing with data, I solo-travel, read philosophy & psychology and find amazing eateries!

Anindita Sinha Banerjee is a Data Scientist at Red Hat and former researcher at Tata Research. Authored research work at PAKDD, ACL Workshop. Speaker at Open Source Summit, KubeCon and PyCon India. Contributed to 3 patents. Open-source enthusiast. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5GCQcVkAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Anjali Telang is a Senior Principal Product Manager for OpenShift Security and Identity at Red Hat, with 16+ years of experience in security and cloud. A passionate advocate for open source projects such as SPIFFE/SPIRE, cert-manager, External Secrets Operator, Secret Store CSI Driver, she focuses on bringing cutting-edge technologies to enterprise customers. Before Red Hat, she held product and engineering leadership roles at VMware and NetApp. She has presented CloudNative and more recently AI Security at various conferences and was the Keynote Speaker at KubeCon Atlanta representing RedHat for AI Security. Outside of work, she enjoys reading, cooking, and meditation.

Hi, I'm Anuj Singla, a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. I spend most of my days writing code and working with technologies like React, Angular, JavaScript, and Node.js. I'm also deeply involved in AI, building AI agents using the Llama stack and Google's ADK. In addition to my work, I share my knowledge on YouTube... Currently, I am also learning GraphQL.

Software Engineer at Red Hat, working on Ansible Developer Tools and AI-assisted automation in VS Code. Passionate about open source, DevTools, and improving developer experience through intelligent automation.

Passionate about opensource fields, active fedora contributor, written few article for fedora and Red Hat , Active Docker community leader, Trying to promote Opensource by arranging AWS / Google Events as I am AWS UG , GDG UG and AWS CB. In Dec 2022 GDG Devfest we had taken a session for around 550+ attendees. Currently delivering training for Kubernertes / Docker and GKE

Ashwin has 6 years of experience working in AI and machine learning. He has worked on everything from traditional machine learning, computer vision to language models. His work has has been recognized as impactful and result driven throughout his career.
Ashwin has worked in the past to deliver solutions for Amazon, many midsized companies in different domains. He currently is resposible for driving and delivering generative AI strategies for the worlds top legal firms.
Ashwin has also guided 10+ startups in their series A journey and successfully helped them turn ideas into products. His spare time is spent with family, friends and playing sports.

Atharva Arbat is a Computer Science student at MIT World Peace University, Pune. He has spent two years building real-time control systems, desktop applications, and full-stack software. As Navigation and Control Lead at Vegapod Hyperloop, he led a team of 9 engineers and represented India at European Hyperloop Week in Zurich and Groningen. He enjoys building things from scratch - from a 32-bit operating system to gym management software now used by businesses in India. He works primarily with C++, Python, and Linux, and believes the best way to learn something is to build it yourself.

A DevOps and Platform engineering professional with over a decade of experience in CI/CD, Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure, Kubernetes and cloud native development.
Avinash is passionate about process optimisations using open source automations and AI/ML.
As a keen contributor and advocate of open source community, his recent interests are in MLOps and Sustainable computing area.

Software developer with 5 years of experience in building user-friendly, visually appealing web products. I'm passionate about creating efficient, accessible, and high-performing interfaces that offer great user experiences. Skilled in designing and developing products that balance clean design with strong functionality.

Ayushi is an Associate Software Engineer at Red Hat, specializing in AI, ML, and open source. With over 2 years of experience, she has worked on rule writing, log analysis, and proactive issue resolution. Ayushi is also a mentor and public speaker, frequently sharing insights on open source contributions, AI advancements, and career growth in tech. Passionate about scalable automation and AI-driven support systems, she strives to bridge the gap between engineering efficiency and real-world problem-solving.

Professor & Program Director, Department of Computer Engineering & Technology @ Dr. Vishwanath Karad MIT WORLD PEACE UNIVERSITY, PUNE, Bharat

Bharath Nallapeta is a cloud-native engineer and open-source contributor with deep expertise in Kubernetes, Go, and AI/ML infrastructure. He specializes in designing scalable, automated platforms that bridge AI and Kubernetes, enabling efficient, production-grade workloads across multi-cloud environments.
Currently, he leads the OSPO team at Mirantis working on all things Kubernetes.

VP, Conferences, Apache Software Foundation and Sr. Manager, Community Outreach, Open Source Program Office, Red Hat

Veteran technologist with experience in many facets of IT and software engineering. Currently managing global teams that design, architect and deliver web applications based on open source software.

Dr. Chris Butler is a Senior Principal Chief Architect in the APAC Field CTO Office. He represents Red Hat engineering to Red Hat’s public sector clients and suppliers across Asia Pacific.

Chris, and his peers, engage with clients and partners who are stretching the boundaries of Red Hat's products. Chris facilitates co-innovation engagements with our clients and partners with our product engineering team.

From a technical perspective Chris enables clients to achieve their sovereignty outcomes. Frequently this is within complex multi-tenanted and high security environments and is consulted to see how the latest security technology can be used to achieve outcomes.

He is a maintainer of the OSCAL Compass ‘Cloud Native Compute Foundation’ project where he built compliance automation projects used by government agencies globally and is embedded within enterprise product solutions.

Prior to joining Red Hat Chris has worked at AUCloud and IBM Research. At AUCloud Chris led a team who managed AUCloud’s productisation strategy and technical architecture. Chris is responsible for the design of AUClouds IaaS & PaaS platforms across all security classifications and prioritisation of investment with internal and external stakeholders.

Chris spent 10 years within IBM in management and technical leadership roles finishing as a Senior Technical Staff Member at the Centre for Applied Research in IBM Consulting. Chris is an experienced technical leader, having held positions responsible for: HR management of technical teams; functional strategy within the IBM Research division (Financial Services); developing the IBM Global Technology Outlook; and as development manager of IBM Cloud services.

Chris’s technical experience spans from build and deployment of IaaS platforms to industry specific AI applications. He has consistent experience in the productisation of innovative technologies across multiple industry sectors.

Chris has been consistently recognised with corporate and academic awards. Chris has a PhD from Monash University modelling blood flow of thrombotic geometries using high performance computing.

A Senior Principal Technical Support Engineer Engineer with 17 years of experience in Java Enterprise middleware and Red Hat AI (RHAIIS, RHELAI, RHOAI) products.

Proven expertise in the design, implementation, and troubleshooting of distributed enterprise systems on Kubernetes (Red Hat OpenShift), Linux containers (Podman, Docker), and standalone Linux servers (RHEL 7/8/9/10).

Possesses core proficiency in Java and Python programming, with hands-on experience in a wide array of Java middleware and web server technologies.

Recently developed strong expertise in Python programming for AI, focusing on Generative AI, RAG, AI Agents, LLM fine-tuning, and inference using cutting-edge open-source frameworks (vLLM, llm-d, llm compressor) and Red Hat AI (RHAIIS, RHELAI, RHOAI) platforms.

Deepak Das, has been working in Red Hat for the last 12+ year. Has total of around 25 years of IT experience.

Deepak is an experienced engineering manager with a passion for psychology and organization design and now AI. Throughout his career, Deepak has been fascinated by the intersection of psychology and organizational design. He believes that a deep understanding of human behavior and motivation is essential to building high-performing teams and organizations. He has applied this knowledge to develop innovative management strategies and leadership practices that have helped to improve productivity and employee engagement.
In his current role as a senior engineering manager at Red Hat, Deepak is focused on building digital experiences for Red Hat Partners. He works closely with his team to identify opportunities for process optimization, automation, and product design improvements.

With over 12 years of experience in the industry, I am passionate about technology and software architectures and have planned, developed, and implemented complex software solutions.

DevConf.IN 2026 Final Booths List with abstracts

I Dipayan Dutta an experienced Linux Engineer with more than eight years of hands-on expertise in architecting, securing, and optimizing complex Linux-based infrastructures. He is Red Hat certified (RHCSA/RHCE) across both RHEL 7 and RHEL 9, and his technical portfolio spans systems engineering, automation, container platforms, and cloud technologices

Dr. Dhanashri Narayan Wategaonkar

Assistant Professor, MIT World Peace University, Pune
Certified Ethical Hacker | Researcher in Wireless Sensor Network, Cybersecurity, AI, and Data Sovereignty

Dr. Dhanashri Narayan Wategaonkar is an accomplished academician and researcher with over 17 years of teaching and research experience in Computer Science and Engineering. She currently serves as an Assistant Professor at MIT World Peace University, Pune, and is pursuing a Post-Doctoral Fellowship (PDF) in Computer Science and Engineering from Lincoln University, Malaysia.

A Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) Instructor accredited by the EC-Council and a DGCA-certified Remote Pilot, Dr. Wategaonkar’s work spans cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, cloud forensics, and data sovereignty. She has contributed extensively to research, with numerous publications in Scopus-indexed journals and international conferences. Her research includes innovations in cybercrime investigation systems, AI-driven conferencing solutions, and secure data communication frameworks.

She has received multiple patents and copyrights, completed externally funded R&D projects, and played a pivotal role in establishing the DroneX Innovation Lab at MIT-WPU in collaboration with AiRotor Technologies. As a passionate educator and mentor, she actively promotes cybersecurity awareness through initiatives like e-Daksha and serves as a technical program committee member and reviewer for reputed journals and conferences.

Dr. Wategaonkar has been recognized with several accolades, including the EC-Council Academia Best Newcomer Award (2024) and Best Paper Awards at IEEE and international conferences. Her expertise bridges academia, research, and industry collaboration, inspiring youth to innovate responsibly in the digital era.

Drishti is a Software Engineer and a technology book author. She is based in the USA and believes in democratizing opportunities and brings knowledge of the latest developments in the fast-moving field of technology to early professionals, students, and keep them up to date and well-equipped for their professional careers. Her initiative "SkillUp with Drishti" enables students and professionals to grow in their career.

She has spoken at conferences across the globe and is also a social entrepreneur. Her non-profit organisation - Samyak Drishti Foundation works in environment, education and healthcare sectors and operates in a number of cities across India.

In her spare time, she likes to paint nature, explore new places and anchor live shows.

I'm a transformational technology leader with 15+ years of experience driving innovation across 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱, 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗢𝗽𝘀, 𝗔𝗜/𝗠𝗟, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗜. Holding a 𝗣𝗵𝗗 in Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (𝗔𝗜𝗢𝗽𝘀) from Savitribai Phule Pune University, along with 𝗠𝗕𝗔, 𝗠𝗖𝗔 and 35+ technical certifications (including 11𝘅 𝗔𝗪𝗦, 𝟯𝘅 𝗛𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗽, Confluent Kafka, and Stanford ML), I blend deep technical expertise with strategic vision and business acumen.

Currently serving as a 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗳𝗳 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁 at HashiCorp, I partner with enterprise CxOs and leadership teams across APAC to define and accelerate their cloud transformation journey using the HashiCorp product suite.

https://www.astromedicomp.org/dr-vijay-gokhale/

He is currently working as a technical director, in all of the following companies:
Pi Tech Solutions [2003-now] : http://www.pitspl.com/
Sunbeam Institute of Information Technologies (Training company) [2007-now] : http://www.sunbeaminfo.com/
Sterling Systems private limited [2011-now] : http://www.sterlingsys.in/

Apart from role as a technical director in these companies, he runs private tuition class, where he teaches “Unix System Design” in one semester and “Win 32 SDK, COM and .NET internal architecture” in another. [2003-now] He runs this private class strongly adhering to “Gurukul” ethos. One of the salient features of his teaching is that he imparts not only the technical content but also “Sanskars”**. He is very respected and adored amongst his students. These sentiments are captured in the web-site, http://astromedicomp.org/ which is run by the students and for the students.

Eeshaan is a passionate Engineer from Pune, India. His job is to make technical things a little less technical, or at least, a little less painful.

A DevRel Engineer at ONLYOFFICE, LFX mentee at PipeCD and four years deep into open source and cloud native, Eeshaan spends most of his time writing docs, making tutorials or speaking at conferences – sometimes local and sometimes across the continent. 🌎

In his free time, he likes to hit the gym and brew some fine quality coffee, because aura-farming is equally important. 💪🏼

I am Gaurav Hirani, currently serving as a General Manager – Head Cloud at Reliance Jio, India’s largest telecom company. With over 21 years of experience, I bring expertise in Cloud, Telecom, IoT, DevOps and SRE. I am also serving on CAB of Confluent.

My academic background includes a B.E. in Computer Science, LL.B., PG from IIT Roorkee, MBA from IIM Indore, and NTU Singapore. I have had the privilege of speaking at various summits and conferences in India and internationally, sharing insights on Tech (Cloud and DevOps) driving Telecom and IoT.

Seasoned Software Engineering professional.
Primary interests are AI/ML, Security, Linux, Malware.
Loves working on the command-line.

Core Contributor @stdlib, GSoC Mentor '25 & Contributor '24 @stdlib, Open Source @Quansight, Worked on Quantum Research @IBM, Speaker at global conferences such as FOSSASIA, OpenSUSE.Asia Summit, JSNationUS and more.

Harshit Kumar is a Senior Technical Staff Member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York, US. His research interests span AI automation, AIOps, conversational AI, and information retrieval. At IBM, he currently focuses on building AI-driven solutions for IT operations and services. His work has been recognized through multiple IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards, Research Awards, and patent honors.

I am a Director of Platform Engineering in the Hybrid Cloud Management organization at Red Hat, with over 21 years of experience in the technology industry. Half of my career has been in hands-on engineering roles, and the other half in management and leadership positions. I have worked across Support, IT, and Engineering functions, contributing to and leading teams in areas such as Database Administration, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, and Business Intelligence. My experience spans multiple technologies, products, and global teams, giving me a well-rounded perspective on building scalable platforms, driving operational excellence, and leading high-performing engineering organizations.

Hi, I’m Hrushabh Sirsulwar, a Partner Technical Account Manager at Red Hat and a Red Hat Certified Architect. I specialize in Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Device Edge, and Ansible Automation, and I work closely with partners to help them design, deploy, and scale solutions across cloud, on-premise, and edge environments.

In my role, I support partners throughout their technical journey—whether it’s troubleshooting complex issues, optimizing architectures, or enabling them to adopt modern Red Hat platforms and best practices. I enjoy working on immutable Linux operating systems, bootc/image-mode deployments, automation workflows, and practical edge computing use cases.

I work in Red Hat's Product Security AI team, mainly doing research in the field of AI security, safety and trustworthiness. I have studied AI security from Stanford and am a certified Trusted AI Safety Expert from Cloud Security Alliance Foundation. I have over 15 years of security experience working for open source projects across the entire ecosystem.

Jayapriya Pai brings over 12 years of experience in the industry, having worked across Quality Engineering, System Engineering, and Software Engineering domains. She is currently a Senior Software Engineer with the OpenShift Monitoring team at Red Hat, focusing on backend engineering.

Jey Paulraj is Chief Architect for Customer-Led Innovation within Red Hat's Global CTO Organization. He leads the design and development of next-generation AI/ML data platforms, leveraging Apache Iceberg and Data Mesh architectures on Kubernetes/OpenShift environments. With a strong focus on scalable, cloud-native solutions, Jey drives innovation at the intersection of data, AI/ML, and enterprise architecture.

Hello! I’m Kalyani, a Technical Writer at Red Hat, where I own and develop documentation for Red Hat OpenShift and OpenShift Container Platform. I am passionate about creating clear, user-focused documentation that empowers developers, administrators, and enterprises to use our products with confidence. As an open source contributor, I deeply value community collaboration and the power of shared knowledge. My work often intersects with UI/UX writing, accessibility, and docs-as-code workflows. I am also an active speaker, sharing insights from my technical writing journey, developer experience research, community work, and open source contributions. I enjoy engaging with beginner and student audiences and turning complex concepts into simple, relatable learning experiences.

Outside of work, I’m a writer at heart. I love exploring space science, astrophysics, and the timeless comfort of Disney movies. I thrive on learning, storytelling, and making knowledge approachable.

Kamesh Sampath is a Developer Advocate at Snowflake, author, and long-time open source contributor with over two decades of experience in enterprise software. He’s passionate about helping developers and data practitioners harness the power of cloud, data, and AI to build real-world innovation. Through advocacy, community, and storytelling, Kamesh bridges the gap between complex technology and human creativity, inspiring developers to learn more, do more, and share more.

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Karan Jagtiani is the creator of the open-source project Skyflo.ai and the Cloud Architect at Storylane. He leads DevOps and owns the company's cloud platform end-to-end, including Kubernetes infrastructure, cloud security, observability, CI/CD systems, and compliance enforcement (SOC 2 and GDPR) across multiple environments.

I have 6 plus year experience in c,c++ on Linux. Currently I am back porting desktop apps on older Redhat version.

Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat (Data & AI), focused on building scalable frontend platforms and full-stack systems for over 5 years. I’m passionate about clean architecture, performance, and developer-centric design. Now actively working at the intersection of frontend engineering and AI, integrating intelligent agents and modern AI workflows into real-world products.

Mandar Dixit is an Associate Principal Solution Architect at Red Hat , responsible for Presales across Top 10 Corporate Customers in India.
With 22+ years of Presales & Consulting experience, in varied segments like Cloud, Data Center, Telco & System Integration, he brings an excellent blend of Business & Technical skills.
At Red Hat he has remarkable contributions towards business growth in the hybrid cloud market based on Enterprise open source technologies.
Proven record of accomplishment in complex solution building across Industry verticals like BFSI, Manufacturing & ITES, including AI.
Has been a Trusted Advisor to Large Business Conglomerates, in their Application Modernization & Hybrid Cloud journey.

A results-oriented professional with over 4 years of industry experience, including 1+ years specializing in building AI solutions for workflow automation. Proven ability to design and implement AI agents and scalable backend services, with a focus on creating reusable frameworks to accelerate development cycles.

Mansi has 10 years of experience. She specializes in scaling LLMs across multi-node training and inference accelerators, with active contributions to PyTorch's distributed stack and vLLM. Her expertise spans communication optimization, memory-efficient parallelism strategies (FSDP, tensor parallelism, pipeline parallelism), and accelerator performance tuning.

Product Owner in The Collective team. Responsible for SBOM lifecycle in Konflux.

Matthew Miller is a Distinguished Engineer and Manager at Red Hat. Before trying this "management" thing, he was Fedora Project Leader for 11 years.

With over 4 years of experience managing and optimizing complex Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters, I specialize in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of infrastructure in dynamic environments. Passionate about site reliability engineering, I focus on automating processes, improving system uptime, and troubleshooting complex issues across large-scale cloud-native platforms.

Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat | Top 0.1% Mentor @Topmate| Tech Speaker | 3x Times Square Featured | Publisher of Engineering The Frontend | Open Source contributor

I’m Mitesh Sharma, a Senior Principal Technical Marketing Manager at Red Hat. I build solution-driven demos that help Solution Architects clearly connect product capabilities with real customer value. My focus is on showcasing Red Hat’s innovation in automation in a way that accelerates customer adoption and supports deal closure.

Dr. Mohit Sewak is a Staff AI Researcher and Engineer at Google, specializing in Safe, Secure, and Responsible Generative AI. A leading expert in the field, he is the author of two books and an inventor with over 20 patents. His recent work focuses on the security vulnerabilities of Agentic AI, specifically the "Confused Deputy" problem and the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Mohit bridges the gap between theoretical AI safety and practical cybersecurity, advocating for "Agentic Zero Trust" architectures.

Technical Advisor & Architect, AI-Driven User Experiences (Senior Principal Software Engineer) at Red Hat

Nagesh Rathod is a Senior Platform Engineer with 5+ years of experience in DevOps, multi-cloud, and automation, passionate about open-source and scalable infrastructure. He has over 2+ years of hands-on experience managing LLM workloads in production—ranging from self-managed to cloud-managed environments. His focus lies at the intersection of AI, security, and platform engineering, driving innovation in model serving and governance.

Narayanababu Laveti D V is a Principal Architect at Exotel with deep experience in building scalable systems that make modern communication possible. He is currently focusing on voice AI technology, working directly with the engineering team to develop AI-powered voice bots. His work centers on the technical side of making these bots smarter and more reliable, ensuring they can handle natural, real-time conversations effectively when users interact with them over a phone call.

His current focus on AI is built on a strong foundation of designing high-scale platforms. As part of the architecture team at Exotel, Narayanababu has contributed to the systems powering the company’s CPaaS and its Enterprise Contact Center (ECC/CCaaS). This background in managing high-traffic, real-time data helps him ensure that voice AI solutions are built to be stable and performant at scale.

A DevOps engineer with a great passion for building communities around DevOps. Organiser of Google Cloud Gandhinagar, CNCF Gandhinagar, Hashicorp User Group Gandhinagar and Open Source Weekend. Have mentored 15+ hackathons and open source programs. I have given more than 15 talks at conferences such as KubeCon India, Platform Con 2024, DevFest, HashiTalk India 23, LinuxFest Northwest, 90 Days of DevOps, and many more.

GCP Devops, Cloud Professional certified, Azure -104 certified, Finops Engineer Certified, Terraform and Vault Certified

Work as a Principal Software Engineer on the Developer Productivity and Test Platform team. I have 13 years in industry, including 7 years on this team. I contribute actively to Kubernetes, OpenShift, and related open‑source projects. Outside work, I play piano, guitar, and percussion.

Github: https://github.com/droslean

Nikhil is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, working on Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI), focused on building Feature Store. He is enthusiastic about Open Source Technologies and previously contributed to the foreman and fedora communities.

Sr Engineering Lead @ Persistent Systems Limited

Nikhil Ladha is a backend developer from India, working at IBM and has more than 5yrs of industry experience in the domain of storage, web and kubernetes.He is also an active open-source contributor and a maintainer of multiple open-source projects. He loves to travel and explore the world. In his free time, he loves to relax those brain muscles by playing PC games :)

Nimisha Mukherjee is a Senior Engineering Manager at Red Hat, where she leads global teams focused on delivering the Developer portfolio. Her current focus is on delivering cutting-edge Developer AI experiences and solutions. With over 23 years of experience, she has a strong background in delivering innovative web applications and solutions.
An alumna of the IIMB Tanmatra Program (Batch 6), Nimisha is deeply involved in the tech community. She served as a Design Track Chair for GHCI from 2016 to 2018, was a Steering Committee Member for DevConf.IN from 2019 to 2021
Outside of work, she enjoys exploring new places and cuisines.
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/nimishamukherjee/

Nitesh Narayan Lal is an Engineering Manager at Red Hat in the Virtualization group.

I am Nitin Yewale, currently working as a Software Maintenance Engineer in Sustaining Engineering team at Red Hat. Over the course of my career of more than 15 years of experience working with the Linux Operating system, I have spent a significant amount of time understanding and supporting various system-level components, which has helped me build a foundation in Linux internals.

In the course of my career at Red Hat, I developed a growing interest in the Linux storage stack and the many concepts that shape how data moves through the system. I enjoy exploring how different subsystems — filesystems, the block layer, and storage drivers — work together, and I am looking forward to deepening my knowledge in this area.

I believe in continuous learning, and I approach new technical subjects with curiosity and a willingness to understand them thoroughly. Through this talk, I hope to share some of the insights I’ve gathered while also learning from the broader technical community.

I am a Senior Data Scientist and Technical Architect specializing in building end-to-end AI and analytics solutions. My core expertise includes EDA, statistical modeling, machine learning, forecasting, and designing scalable AI applications. I have strong hands-on experience with GenAI tools such as LangChain, OpenAI APIs, GPT-Vision, and Gemini LLM, along with vector databases and full CI/CD deployment pipelines.

I also bring deep experience in solving complex text-data problems—designing solutions using traditional NLP techniques as well as modern AI approaches like LLMs and neural networks. At Red Hat, I focus on architecting reliable, production-ready AI systems that deliver meaningful business insights and support strategic decision-making.

Building agentic systems at Red Hat. Have prior experience in Machine Learning.

Parshant is a Associate ML Engineer at Red Hat and a Gold Medalist in his Master’s in CSE with AIML specialization. He has authored four SCOPUS-indexed research papers in AI/ML. At Red Hat, he contributes to upstream open-source projects like PyTorch, Helion. He also has hands-on experience in AI compilers and works with open-source compiler frameworks like LLVM and MLIR, bridging ML workloads with systems-level optimization.

I’m Prachiti, currently working as a Software Quality Engineer at Red Hat in the OpenShift team. My work involves Golang, OpenShift CI tooling, and testing various cluster features. I’m passionate about learning, experimenting with new ideas, and growing both technically and personally

I'm a technology leader and hands-on builder with over two decades of experience creating secure and scalable platforms.

I've had an incredible journey through a variety of roles that have truly enriched my experience! I've enjoyed building secure platforms, architecting solutions for enterprises and governments, and advising startups on their very first products. I've also had the privilege of leading teams, mentoring others, and shaping technical directions.

Some of my notable projects include architecting a Kubernetes-based platform for centralised tax processing for the government, creating a Kubernetes-based platform to add guardrails for protecting nodes from workloads, implementing confidential computing for safeguarding sensitive data in untrusted environments, and architecting a Kubernetes-based solution for regulated industries, among others.

I am an avid movie lover and enjoy lively debates on history, religion, and philosophy.

Pranjal Bathia is a senior technology leader at Red Hat, currently serving as Senior Engineering Manager and Execution Owner for the transformation of Red Hat’s Master Data Management platform. With over a decade of experience, she has led major modernisation efforts across product, pricing, and downstream integrations, including the shift from enterprise SaaS tools to Red Hat’s in-house AI-native platform.
Her work brings together architecture, product thinking, and hands-on delivery. She has played a key role in building systems from scratch, enabling AI-driven workflows, and driving automation that supports Red Hat’s global product and pricing ecosystem. Pranjal also contributes to Red Hat’s broader AI adoption efforts by designing intelligent agents and helping teams integrate AI responsibly into their daily workflows.
Beyond her technical role, she is active in site leadership initiatives in Pune and is passionate about building collaborative, confident teams. Outside of work, Pranjal loves spending time with her daughters — whether creating crafts together, exploring new ideas, or simply enjoying fun mom–kid moments.

Pranjal Gupta is a Research Engineer at IBM Research Lab, India, specialising in AI for IT Automation and Observability. He has worked across multiple areas including log analytics, infrastructure as code, and observability. His contributions focus on building intelligent solutions that deliver actionable insights to simplify the work of engineering teams, for which he received the IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award in 2023. Pranjal’s research has been published in several international conferences, such as KubeCon and Red Hat Summit. A strong advocate of open-source technologies, Pranjal has actively contributed to various open-source projects in the observability space.

Prasanth Baskar is a Open Source Software Engineer and a core contributor to the CNCF Harbor project. He thrives on mentoring new contributors, fostering collaboration, and building innovative solutions that drive the future of open-source communities.

Principal Architect @ Exotel

Senior SRE at Red Hat supporting OSD and Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) platforms. Passionate about high-availability systems, cloud automation, and delivering resilient managed Kubernetes platforms for enterprise customers.

Praveen Kumar is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, where he leads efforts to create tools that make it easy for developers to experiment with OpenShift in local environments. With a strong passion for the container ecosystem, he actively contributes to a variety of open-source projects in his spare time.

Praveen has been a featured speaker at numerous conferences including Eclipse Summit, FUDCon, GNUnify, DevConf, Flock, FOSSAsia, Jenkins User Conference, and Docker-Meet. Over the years, he has delivered talks on Docker, OpenShift, Ansible, RPM packaging, Git, Jenkins, and several other developer-focused technologies.

He is deeply involved in the open-source community and enjoys sharing practical insights drawn from real-world engineering work. You can connect with Praveen on Twitter at @kumar_pravin.

Pritesh is the Community Manager at Harness and takes care of the LitmusChaos Community. He is also the Head of Community at ReactPlay, leading the ReactPlay Bangalore chapter. He has a strong background as a Developer Advocate, leading tech communities and fostering open-source contributions.
Pritesh organizes workshops, meetups, and creates video/blog content on Chaos Engineering and AI.

Prithvi Raj is a Community Manager & Developer Advocate at Mirantis working with the Open Source Program Office team. He is a CNCF Ambassador with 5+ years of experience who helped scale a CNCF incubating project in LitmusChaos and runs the Platform & Resilience Engineering Meetup group. He is an active member at SIG Project Reviews and is currently leading the community efforts for the k0s project, k0rdent, OpenSDN, and the other OSS initiatives Mirantis is contributing to.

He is a co-organizer to KCD Bengaluru, and previously did Chaos Carnival, LitmusChaosCon and KCD Chennai.
He was previously at Harness, ChaosNative, and MayaData.

Priya Rahul Belokar is an Associate Application Developer at Fujitsu Consulting India Pvt. Ltd. with over four years of experience in the IT industry. She specializes in designing, developing, and maintaining enterprise applications with a focus on performance and scalability. Priya has worked across all phases of the software development lifecycle and is known for her problem-solving skills and attention to detail. She enjoys collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions and continuously enhances her skills by exploring new technologies. Outside of work, she loves reading, traveling, and learning about emerging tech trends.

Rahul Belokar is a Senior Data Engineer at Red Hat India Pvt. Ltd. with over nine years of industry experience across data engineering, software development, and system administration. He has spent the last seven years at Red Hat, where he currently focuses on building scalable data pipelines and optimizing data transformations.

Before transitioning into data engineering, Rahul worked as a Tech Support Engineer and Software Engineer, gaining hands-on experience in systems reliability and application development. Earlier in his career, he also served as a Solaris Administrator at Reliance Life Insurance, where he developed a strong foundation in infrastructure and enterprise systems.

Rahul is passionate about open source, data-driven innovation, and cloud-native engineering. Outside of work, he enjoys traveling, reading, and exploring new technologies that connect people and ideas for positive impact.

Rahul Shetty is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat’s Performance & Scale group. He focuses on large-scale performance testing for Red Hat’s platforms and is currently exploring AI-driven approaches to enhance internal testing and automation.

Rajani is a skilled DevOps and SRE Engineer with over 4 years of experience, passionate about cloud technologies and modern DevOps practices. As a recognized Docker Captain and Women Techmakers (WTM) Ambassador, she actively contributes to the tech community through content creation, mentorship, and public speaking.
A prominent speaker at major cloud and DevOps conferences, Rajani engages global audiences on emerging technologies and real-world engineering practices. She shares her expertise on platforms like Medium and LinkedIn, aiming to educate and empower others in the DevOps space. Rajani finds fulfillment in mentoring aspiring engineers, inspiring professionals and students alike through her talks, articles, and community initiatives.

Rajan leads the Partner Ecosystem Engineering's Product Certification Solutions team at Red Hat, helping global technology partners build trusted, proven, and secure solutions on Red Hat platforms. His work focuses on strengthening the bridge between community innovation and enterprise reliability — ensuring that certified partner products deliver confidence to customers everywhere.

A community-driven leader, Rajan believes in empowering people through technology, connection, curiosity, and collaboration. He is personally passionate about coaching, mentoring, and nurturing psychologically safe teams where creativity thrives.

Outside of work, you’ll find him travelling across the world, exploring new places & culture, capturing moments through his lens, vibing to offbeat music, or sharing good energy with the communities he’s part of.

Rajesh Dulhani is a seasoned Linux Systems and Infrastructure Specialist with strong expertise in RHEL, automation, system performance, and recovery engineering. He is passionate about solving deep technical problems and designing reliable, scalable, and self-healing systems for enterprise environments.

Rakshith is a Software Engineer at IBM Storage Team. He is an active open source developer, top contributor at Rook and maintainer at CephCSI, CSI-Addons and External-snapshot-metadata sidecar projects. He has given multiple talks at conferences including FOSDEM, DevConf.CZ, Cephalocon, Ceph Days India and Kubecon India .

Ram Iyengar is an engineer by practice and an educator at heart. He was (cf) pushed into technology evangelism along his journey as a developer and hasn’t looked back since! He enjoys helping engineering teams around the world discover new and creative ways to work. He is a proponent of product development and engineering teams that put the community first.

Customer Success Manager by day, tech enthusiast always. When I’m not catching success, I’m sipping coffee at Pinterest-worthy spots around the globe. I love blogging, contributing to open-source projects, and sharing real-life stories on LinkedIn and Instagram. Travel keeps me inspired.

Renu Jhamtani is a seasoned technology leader with over 22 years of IT expertise. Starting her career in Java/J2EE, she transitioned into full-stack development. Her extensive background spans both service and product-based organizations, where she has a track record of consistently delivering innovative customer solutions. Renu is highly adept at forming and leading high-performing teams to successfully address complex business challenges and create effective end-user solutions. She is passionate about coaching and developing emerging leaders. Currently, Renu holds two key roles at Red Hat: leading the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Sustaining Engineering team and proudly serving as the Red Hat Pune Site Leader.

Ritesh Shah is a Senior Principal Architect with Red Hat and focuses on creating and using next-generation platforms, including AI/ML workloads as well as application modernisation and deployment.
Ritesh is an advocate for open source technologies and products, focusing on modern platform architecture and design for critical business needs. He is passionate about next-generation platforms and how application teams, including data scientists, can use open source technologies to their advantage.

Rizwana Naaz is a Software Engineer working in the Kubernetes and GitOps ecosystem. She builds with Golang and works on Argo CD, Argo Rollouts, and OpenShift operators, focusing on making deployment automation easier and more reliable. She also writes Ginkgo tests and enjoys sharing practical knowledge to help developers adopt cloud-native tools with confidence.

An SDV & Automotive IoT evangelist and a firm believer of open source technologies impact on our lifestyle.

Samson is Seasoned Professional working as a Associate Principal Solutions Architect at Red Hat, where he is responsible for building and scaling Red Hat offerings with Global System Integrators and Strategic Partners. He spearheads co-creation initiatives with partners and is the architect behind several commercially viable offerings. In his role, Samson also serves as an advisor to partners, helping them develop solutions for complex transformation pursuits. Before joining Red Hat, Samson gained extensive experience working with leading organizations such as Accenture, Wipro, DXC, HCL, Airtel, and Tata Group. In Past he has architected multiple large & complex Application Modernization and Cloud Migration Pursuits

S Ashwin is a software engineer early in his career at Deutsche Bank, working on cloud-native platforms with a focus on automation, reliability, and observability. A former GSoC contributor to Prometheus-Operator, he currently serves as a triage member and has a strong interest in open-source and the Prometheus ecosystem.

Proactive Open Source Software Quality Engineer at Red Hat with 4+ years of experience, passionate about continuous learning and sharing knowledge through documentation and presentations.

An Engineer with skill of DevOps and Site Reliability domain , coding enthusiast with a keen interest in Building Scalable Cloud Applications

I build Products that power AI at Scale.

As a Group Product Manager, I lead strategy for GPU cloud platforms designed for LLM inference, training, and fine-tuning in real production environments.

My focus is on:
- Turning GPUs into reliable AI platforms
- Scaling inference efficiently and responsibly
- Lowering cost and complexity of AI infrastructure

I care deeply about making advanced AI usable beyond big labs, so startups and enterprises can build, deploy, and scale AI without friction.

Hello There I'm shane , i mess around with a lot of tech stuff. One day it’s Linux, next day FreeBSD, sometimes web dev, sometimes hardware. I just like breaking things and fixing them back. I know I jump around a lot, but that’s how I learn. I want to go deep into systems and kernel stuff, but at the same time I also enjoy building random projects. Basically, I’m just curious and stubborn enough to keep trying until it works.

Principal Machine Learning Engineer at Red Hat's Data & AI team in Bangalore, building LLM-based systems, RAG pipelines, and agentic workflows. With 11+ years spanning AI, ML, and data engineering, he's passionate about sharing real-world architectures that actually work in production.

Shashank is a Senior SRE at InfraCloud, bringing extensive experience in managing and scaling cloud-native applications. His expertise lies in Kubernetes, CI/CD automation, and infrastructure as code. He is passionate about continuous learning and contributing to the DevOps community, often speaking at conferences and writing technical blogs.

Software Engineer at RedHat

Developer Relations at Exotel – an India-first CPaaS platform

Featured Speaker at APIDAYS India 2025| SDE-1 @RedHat| Google Summer of Code Contributor @AsyncAPI | I turn ideas into interfaces

Software Engineer at Red Hat, an open-source contributor, and a DevOps believer.

Senior Software Engineer @ Datafortune Software Solutions

Siddardh R A is a Senior Software Engineer in the Performance & Scale team at Red Hat, where he focuses on the performance, scalability, and reliability of OpenShift Pipelines and Tekton. His work spans large-scale performance testing, continuous performance regression detection, and platform tuning for real-world enterprise workloads. He is an active contributor to open-source projects, including Tekton, LogAn, and Pbench, and is increasingly exploring AI to improve engineering productivity. Siddardh regularly shares his learnings through talks at conferences such as PerfConf and DevConf, as well as internal workshops.

I am currently working with Deloitte as a Software Engineer in the HCSM – Infra and Cloud Management team, where I primarily focus on Network Operations Center (NOC) services and cloud technologies. My role involves ensuring smooth infrastructure operations, monitoring critical systems, and supporting cloud environments. Along with that, I have a keen interest in Robotics and Automation.

I'm software engineer with 4+ years of experience in Kubernetes-based storage systems. I'm maintainer and one of the top four contributors to the Rook-Ceph CNCF graduated project. I'm also maintainer of kubectl-rook-ceph. I have spoken at major conferences including KubeCon, Cephalocon, FOSDEM, and Ceph Days.
My work focuses on distributed storage, Kubernetes operators, and cloud-native infrastructure.

Sudhanshu is Software Engineer at SafeDep and core maintainer of Meshery, an open-source CNCF sandbox project. You will find him talking on open-source, web development, supply chain security, cloud-native technologies, and community building. He actively mentor and guide new contributors, helping them navigate and grow in the open-source ecosystem.

Sumanto Kar did his M.Tech in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, IIT Bombay and B.E. in Electronics Engineering from Mumbai University. His interests lie in contributing to the open-source EDA tools. He is actively involved with the FOSSEE project, contributing to the development, integration, documentation, and outreach of eSim, an open-source EDA platform used across universities in India. His work focuses on strengthening open technical ecosystems, enabling reproducible engineering workflows, and bridging the gap between academic research and community-driven software development.

I am a dedicated Software Engineer, specializing in Linux packages, with a deep passion for security, open source, and Python. I break down complex security challenges into clear, accessible insights. I have presented a well-received talk at DevConf India, where I helped engineers and students understand Denial of Service attacks with live demos. I have also volunteered to organize tech conferences and hackathons, nurturing a collaborative community that drives innovation and continuous learning.

I am a passionate and driven third-year Computer Science Engineering student at Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune, specializing in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AIML). With a strong curiosity for emerging technologies, I am continuously building my knowledge in AI/ML, data science, and software development. I enjoy solving problems, exploring real-world applications of AI, and working on projects that challenge me to grow both technically and creatively.

Trilok Geer is a member of cert-manager steering committee. His recent interests and contributions are primarily focused on workload security and zero-trust architectures. He has diverse experience spanning multiple domains building public and enterprise PaaS offerings, cloud-native certificate management and workload identity.

AI Developer passionate about Generative AI, automation, and building human-like intelligent systems. Currently working at Eelanos Group on LLM development and model integration. I’ve built creative AI projects including an AI ATS system, a Medical Data Analyser, and automation workflows using AI agents and LangChain. Always exploring new tools, ideas, and experiments to push what's possible with AI.

I’m a cloud-native engineer at Guidewire with strong involvement in the open-source ecosystem, contributing to Kubernetes and Cluster API release teams. I’ve supported multiple releases in documentation and release engineering roles. As a Certified Kubernetes Administrator, I actively share knowledge through technical writing and conference talks. I’m passionate about building, learning, and growing with the developer community.

Vijay Seshadri is the Chief Architect at JioStar, where he leads the product architecture and system design strategy for JioHotstar, the network’s flagship digital streaming platform. With over 25 years of experience across enterprise security, e-commerce, and large-scale distributed systems, Vijay defines the structural blueprint that powers one of India’s most advanced streaming ecosystems.

At JioHotstar, Vijay drives the evolution of the platform’s core architecture frameworks, ensuring scalability, reliability, and intelligent design across devices. He also leads the platform’s Generative AI technology strategy, designing the architecture that enable new applications, personalized experiences, and business innovations built on AI-driven capabilities. His work bridges deep system engineering with product vision, shaping the foundation for next-generation entertainment experiences that are seamless, secure, and capable of serving millions concurrently. Before joining JioStar, Vijay served as Senior Vice President and Engineering Fellow at Swiggy, where he led the architecture and system design for its hyperlocal e-commerce platform. Prior to that, he spent over a decade at Amazon, spearheading innovations in AWS security and digital payments infrastructure, and at Symantec, where he was Chief Architect and Distinguished Engineer. He was the lead architect of Symantec Insight, a reputation-based security technology that earned The Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award in 2010. An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, where he earned his Master’s in Computer Science, Vijay brings global expertise in building high-performance, scalable, and intelligent technology systems. His leadership continues to guide JioHotstar’s transformation into a future-ready, cloud-native platform that seamlessly blends performance, personalization, and innovation at scale.

Vincent Caldeira, Red Hat APAC CTO and Industry Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, drives tech strategy and emerging engineering. A Top 10 APAC CTO (2023) with 20+ years in finance IT, he is an authority on open source, cloud-native technologies and AI. Vincent holds leadership roles across the Linux Foundation (FINOS, LF AI & Data) and GSF, championing AI safety, sustainability, and digital sovereignty.

Vinod is experienced in architecting and delivering AI/ML based solutions for customers in automotive, energy, healthcare, retail and consumer electronics. His current interest is on distributed LLM inferencing using cloud native frameworks and edge computing. His contributions in automating repetitive human tasks using predictive and generative AI has led to significant savings in effort and improved safety. He has led a number of PoCs and production deployments of AI/ML-based systems on cloud, cars, trucks, drones and wearable devices. He is passionate about modernization of enterprise IT and OT workflows using AI.

Vinod has been a speaker at multiple conferences and workshops and has contributed as a reviewer and member of technical program committees. He is the inventor of 25 patents filed (of which 19 were granted) and has authored more than 15 peer-review papers and business articles. He is an open source contributor and mentors aspiring engineers.

Data Scientist @ kipi.ai - A WNS company

Yogendra Joshi is a Product Leader at Google with 20+ years of experience in product management and innovation and has filed three software patents. He was Director Product Management at Oracle prior to his current role.

At Google he is also part of AI Ethics efforts through AI Principals Pioneers program.

A Chartered Accountant by education, Yogendra is also an internationally recognized artist integrating art and science through his Art with Chemistry initiative.

Yogendra combines creative thinking with rigorous product strategy to deliver talks on the "Art of Innovation". and also routinely conducts trainings in Vibe Coding, Time Management and Work-Life Integration

Yogesh Babar is a Senior Principal Technical Support Engineer at Red Hat with 15 years of experience in the Linux kernel and enterprise systems. He specializes in low-level troubleshooting, performance tuning, and the Linux boot process.

A regular speaker at open-source conferences, Yogesh also conducts hands-on OS workshops and is the author of 'Hands-on Booting' booking. He runs an educational YouTube channel and is currently working on an autonomous-vehicle project, reflecting his interest in robotics and embedded systems.

Yogesh Mittal is a Manager at Red Hat, leading the Vulnerability Management team within the Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT). He oversees the entire security flaw lifecycle, including coordinated disclosure and technical analysis, ensuring critical data is optimized into machine-readable formats for effective remediation. Additionally, Yogesh represents Red Hat in industry forums like the CVE Program Root, where he champions the needs of the open source community to ensure global security standards remain accessible and effective.