Tony Kay is an AI Lead and a Senior Principal Architect at Red Hat, where he has worked since 2017. He is part of the Portfolio Technology and Platform team, building and operating infrastructure that serves thousands of internal and external users daily. His recent work focuses on second-generation agentic AI, designing autonomous, skills-driven agent architectures using state-of-the-art harnesses like Deep Agents and others, and deploying them on Red Hat OpenShift AI. He is also deeply involved in driving enterprise-wide AI usage at Red Hat and developing tooling in that domain. Tony is a seasoned international speaker who has delivered hands-on workshops and technical talks at Red Hat Summit, AnsibleFest, VMworld, ContainerCon, LinuxCon, and many other conferences and local meetups. His sessions blend cutting-edge agentic AI patterns with the production engineering realities of running these systems on OpenShift and other cloud environments.
