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Ritesh Shah is a Principal Architect with the Red Hat Portfolio Technology Platform team and focuses on creating and using next-generation platforms, including artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) workloads, application modernization and deployment, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity as well as software-defined data storage.
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. Ritesh has vast experience working with and helping enterprises succeed with open source technologies.