Vamsi Chemitiganti

Vamsi Chemitiganti is Chief Strategist at Platform9 Systems. Vamsi works with Platform9's Client CXOs and Architects to help them on key business transformation initiatives.

In previous roles, Vamsi was the CTO for RiskCounts, a FinTech based in New York, NY. Before that, he spent eight years as the chief architect for Red Hat’s Global Financial Services Vertical. Vamsi also spent two years as the General Manager of Financial Services at Hortonworks. In both roles, Vamsi was responsible for driving Red Hat and Hortonworks technology vision from a client business standpoint. The clients Vamsi engages with span marquee financial services names across major banking centers in Wall Street, Toronto, London, and Asia. These include businesses in capital markets, retail banking, wealth management, and IT operations. He holds a BS in Computer Science and Engineering as well as an MBA from the University of Maryland, College Park. He is also a regular speaker at industry events on topics including cloud computing, big data, AI, high-performance computing, and enterprise middleware. In 2013, Wall Street and Technology Magazine identified Vamsi as a Global Thought Leader. Vamsi writes weekly about the financial services business and technology landscape at his highly influential blog, http://www.vamsitalkstech.com.