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Steve Shirkey

Activist · DISC type Cd
Director APAC AI Platform at Red Hat
📍 Singapore

Steve Shirkey is the Director for APAC AI Platforms at Red Hat, where he leads strategy for AI solutions using hybrid cloud and open-source technologies. His career includes key AI leadership roles at Microsoft and Amazon Web Services across the Asia Pacific region. Colleagues describe him as focused, detailed, and an incredibly smart problem-solver.

While his specific hobbies are not publicly detailed, his education at the University of Illinois System suggests a potential connection to the Illinois region. [Predicted]

He has spearheaded AI adoption strategies for three of the worlds most influential technology companies: Amazon, Microsoft, and Red Hat.

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Experience
16 Years
Current Role
Director APAC AI Platform
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Singapore
Personality Overview

How Steve shows up

Value Conscious
Observative
Meticulous

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Priorities

Topics Steve cares about

Enterprise AI Adoption
His entire career focus at Red Hat, Microsoft, and AWS has been helping large enterprises across APAC build, scale, and operationalize AI solutions to deliver business value.
Open-Source AI
He actively promotes open-source solutions in his role at Red Hat and through posts about technologies like vLLM, Llama Stack, and Qwen3-Next.
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Career

Work history

2-2025
Director APAC AI Platform
Red Hat
10-2023 - 2-2025
Director, Azure AI (ANZ, ASEAN, Korea) at Microsoft
Microsoft
7-2020 - 10-2023
Director, Solutions Architecture and Customer Engineering for Data/AI (APAC)
Microsoft
7-2019 - 7-2020
Manager, Solutions Architecture
Microsoft
5-2016 - 1-2019
Specialist Solutions Architect, Machine Learning
Amazon Web Services
In the press

Media appearances

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Education
1-2014 - 6-2024
Bachelor of Science (completion Spring 2024)
University of Illinois System
1991 - 1994
Bachelor of Science (not completed)
Governors State University
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

C

Calculativeness (C)

Calculativeness (C) reflects the degree to which a person is likely to be cautious, systematic and analytical. Those scoring high tend to emphasise quality and accuracy.

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