Ricardo is a Principal Software Engineer working at the Red Hat's Office of the CTO in the Emerging Technologies organization as Initiative lead. Ricardo is currently focused on the different kinds of architectures in the AI space like SLMs and multimodality. He has been part of the MicroShift and Edge Manager projects since its inception.
He is a former member of the Akraino Technical Steering Committee and Project Technical Lead of the Kubernetes-Native-Infrastructure blueprint family. He's been doing R&D related to OpenStack, as well as, contributing to OpenDaylight project and OPNFV. He is passionate about new technologies and everything related to the Open Source world. Ricardo holds a MSc Degree in Telecommunications from Technical University of Madrid (UPM). He loves music, photography and outdoor sports.
