Brad Topol
Dr. Brad Topol is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and Director of AI and Cloud Open Technologies. In his current role, he leads a development team with responsibility for contributing to and improving several AI and cloud-native open source technologies including PyTorch, vLLM, InstructLab, LMCache, llm-d, KubeFlow, KServe, Kubernetes, Tekton, and Operator Framework. He also serves as Chair of the LF AI & Data Foundation Governing Board, and as a CNCF alternate Governing Board Member. He is a co-author of Hybrid Cloud Apps with OpenShift and Kubernetes, a book published by O’Reilly Media in 2021. In addition, he is a co-author of Kubernetes in the Enterprise, a book published by O’Reilly Media in 2018. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1998.