Erwan Gallen is Senior Principal Product Manager, Generative AI, at Red Hat, where he follows Red Hat AI Inference Server product and manages hardware-accelerator enablement across OpenShift, RHEL AI, and OpenShift AI. His remit covers strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle management for GPUs, NPUs, and emerging silicon, ensuring customers can run state-of-the-art generative workloads seamlessly in hybrid clouds.
Before joining Red Hat, Erwan was CTO and Director of Engineering at a media firm, guiding distributed teams that built and operated 100 % open-source platforms serving more than 60 million monthly visitors. The experience sharpened his skills in hyperscale infrastructure, real-time content delivery, and data-driven decision-making.
Since moving to Red Hat he has launched foundational accelerator plugins, expanded the company’s AI partner ecosystem, and advised Fortune 500 global enterprises on production AI adoption. An active voice in the community, he speaks regularly at NVIDIA GTC, Red Hat Summit, OpenShift Commons, CERN, and the Open Infra Summit.
