Shefali Bansal

Shefali would like to introduce herself as a technology enthusiast, curious lifelong learner,
innovator & enabler, mentor & a coach, volunteer & yoga proponent, author and vociferous
reader;
Shefali is Global Engineering Director at Red Hat (an entity of IBM) responsible for
bootstrapping and growing OpenShift Engineering teams in Asia Pacific, Europe & North
America regions. She leads the product engineering teams responsible for OpenShift platform
for Edge devices, Multi-architectures, Customer Focused and core OpenShift Engineering
teams globally.
A seasoned IT professional with over two decades of experience, Shefali has donned various
hats spanning management, strategy, product management, product engineering, solutioning &
professional services working with Customers, System Integrators, Business Partners and
ecosystem teams.
An active speaker at industry and technology conferences, Shefali is very passionate about
incubations and first-of-a-kind software & product development in the areas of AI/ML, IoT &
Hybrid Cloud platforms.
Ms. Bansal is an IIM- Bangalore Alumni and an Engineering graduate from NIT Bhopal with
specialisation in Computer Science. She is plateau holder in patents and has external
publications in areas of Reliability Analytics, and awards like ‘Best of Business Analytics’,
“Outstanding Technical Achievement Award”, “Client Success Awards”, “Industry Academy
membership” & Industry recognitions like “Women in Technology” from Zinnov & “AI Game
Changer” award from NASSCOM to her credit.
Her Inspiration story has been featured in India’s leading newspaper “Times of India”.
As a budding author, she has published two books “Rediscovery journey of a corporate
persona” & “Parijaat…The evening flower”.
Outside work, she loves to travel and volunteers for STEM education through an NGO.