John Graham is a seasoned AI engineering leader with 18 years of experience driving engineering teams at Red Hat, now serving as Senior Director focused on generative and predictive AI. He combines deep software engineering roots with recent formal training in data science and machine learning to operationalize open source AI tools like Llama Stack and agentic systems at scale. Known for building global, cross-functional teams, he translates research and cutting-edge frameworks into production-ready MLOps practices. His career stretches from early systems work at Sybase and Eclipse Foundation to strategic AI leadership, giving him rare institutional memory across enterprise software and open source ecosystems. Based in Lexington, MA, he brings a pragmatic, collaboration-first approach to unlocking business value from advanced data-driven technologies. An interesting thread through his profile is the blend of technical leadership and formal academic upskilling—recently earning a Master in Data Science while leading large engineering organizations.
18 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
London School of Economics and Political Science
Master Data Science, Master Data Science at University of Pittsburgh
MS Asian Studies/Japanese language and linguistics, MS Asian Studies/Japanese language and linguistics at University of Hawaii at Manoa
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