Sherard Griffin
Senior Director, OpenShift AI Engineering at Red Hat
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSherard Griffin is a senior engineering leader who currently heads OpenShift AI at Red Hat, bringing eight years of focused AI/ML and hybrid-cloud platform leadership within a long software career. He has deep experience architecting cloud, on‑prem and hybrid solutions—from enterprise SaaS at SAS to open-source AI platforms like Open Data Hub—applying Lean Startup principles to rapidly validate ideas and deliver measurable ROI. Sherard combines strategic product-driven thinking with hands-on execution, shipping scalable AI services and upstream contributions that bridge enterprise needs and open-source communities. He is also a serial entrepreneur and founder who translates startup agility into enterprise practice, and he champions tech equity through a long-running nonprofit that introduces underserved youth to software careers.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. in Computer Science Computer Science, B.S. in Computer Science Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityFastTrackUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
English, Spanish
Github Skills (36)
r9
spark9
java9
python9
scala9
jdbc9
sql9
scale8
data-processing8
big-data8
large-scale8
apache-spark8
analytics7
ranger7
apache7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
griot-and-grits/griot-and-grits
Sep 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:41 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 5 months
shgriffi/data-show
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:24 pushes in 20 days
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