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Ashish Kamra is an accomplished engineering leader with over 15 years of experience managing high-performing teams in AI, machine learning, and cloud computing. He joined Red Hat in March 2017, where he currently serves as the Senior Manager of AI Performance at Red Hat. In this role, Ashish heads up initiatives to optimize performance and scale of Red Hat OpenShift AI - an end to end platform for MLOps, specifically focusing on large language model inference and training performance.
Prior to Red Hat, Ashish held leadership positions at Dell EMC, where he drove the development and integration of enterprise and cloud storage solutions and containerized data services. He also has a strong academic background, having earned a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Purdue University in 2010. His research focused on database intrusion detection and response, and he has published several papers in renowned journals and conferences.
Passionate about leveraging technology to drive business impact, Ashish is pursuing a Part-time Global Online MBA at Warwick Business School to complement his technical expertise. In his free time, he enjoys playing table tennis, exploring global cuisines, and traveling the world.