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Name
Steve Shirkey
Title
Director APAC AI Platform
Bio

As the Director for Red Hat AI across the Asia Pacific region (encompassing China, Japan, India, ANZ, Southeast Asia, and Korea), I lead the specialized technical sales teams in building and executing the go-to-market strategy for Red Hat’s entire AI portfolio. My primary focus is driving the enterprise, commercial and public sector adoption of predictive, generative, and agentic AI solutions leveraging the Red Hat AI platform.


I work at the intersection of open-source innovation and high-performance infrastructure, helping customers deploy trusted Private AI solutions that are sovereign-by-design. My team is involves architecting environments utilizing Red Hat AI Enterprise, which leverages frameworks like vLLM and llm-d, and hosts leading open-weight models such as Llama, DeepSeek, Qwen, Nemotron and others. By applying advanced quantization techniques and optimizing the hosting layer with advanced LLM techniques (KV caching, PagedAttention, PD disaggregation, speculative decoding), we maximize efficiency and throughput.


To accelerate this mission, I drive strategic GTM alongside market-leading AI accelerators (NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and Google TPU) and tier-one OEMs like Dell, Cisco, and Lenovo. Together, we architect compliant, Sovereign AI solutions that bridge the gap between complex hardware ecosystems and scalable MLOps/GenAIOps pipelines.