Meet the latest Red Hat OpenShift Superheroes

This past May at the Red Hat OpenShift Commons Gathering in Atlanta during Community Day atRed Hat Summit, we celebrated our newest class of Red Hat OpenShift Superheroes. While every member of the Red Hat OpenShift community plays a heroic role in driving the platform's success and evolution, certain individuals stand out. They are the advocates, builders, and ambassadors who champion open source collaboration and empower their organizations to reach new heights.

Image 1: From left: Joseph Kanjirathinkal (Dell), Komron Iranzad (Wells Fargo), and Vincent Prince (CAE) on stage in Atlanta.

Our Red Hat OpenShift Superheroes represent the Red Hat OpenShift community as:

• Builders: Contributing directly to the evolution and strength of Red Hat OpenShift.
• Advocates: Amplifying their Red Hat OpenShift experiences and insights through events, technical blogs, and community meetups.
• Ambassadors: Sharing knowledge across diverse teams, industries, and global organizations.

Meet the Superheroes

Here is a look at our newest Red Hat OpenShift Superheroes, celebrated for advancing the OpenShift community through outstanding participation, technical leadership, and innovation. These community nominations have been edited slightly for readability and flow.

Joseph Kanjirathinkal (Dell)

The Ambassador

“Joseph Kanjirathinkal serves as a primary catalyst for collaboration between Dell's development and operations teams, fostering a culture of shared success on the OpenShift platform. He has been instrumental in providing a stable, scalable foundation for numerous organizations across Dell, ensuring the platform meets the rigorous demands of enterprise-grade production. Joseph leads a team that has solidified a developer experience that is as consistent as it is innovative through the seamless integration of Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces, GitOps, and GitHub Actions. His leadership in advocating for these modern workflows across the global enterprise perfectly embodies the spirit of an OpenShift Ambassador.”

— Nominated by James Walton, Red Hat

Komron Iranzad (Wells Fargo)

The Builder

“As Technical Director of Kubernetes Platforms at Wells Fargo, Komron has helped architect a secure, high-scale OpenShift foundation that serves as a gold standard for innovation in the financial services industry. Beyond his deep technical expertise, Komron is an outstanding collaborator who treats every challenge as a shared mission. He has been a critical design partner for Red Hat, directly influencing product roadmaps for Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (ACM), Red Hat OpenShift AI, and the Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA).

His unique ability to translate rigorous banking requirements into actionable product features has been honed through years of co-engineering with Red Hat at two of the world’s top Tier 1 banks. At Wells Fargo, Komron has been a driving force behind OpenShift adoption, partnering across lines of business to mentor teams and evangelize modernization. His industry leadership was on full display at the OpenShift Commons Gathering in London, where he shared best practices for scaling AI/ML workloads in the finance sector. Komron doesn’t just build platforms; he builds the trust, education, and cross-industry blueprints that allow legacy institutions to evolve into agile, AI-ready enterprises.”

— Nominated by Cynthia Bales, Red Hat

Vincent Prince (CAE)

The Ambassador

“Vincent Prince has been a powerhouse in driving the internal adoption of an 'OpenShift-first' modernization strategy at CAE—spanning ROSA, ARO, and on-premises bare metal. He actively tests technology preview (TP) and developer preview (DP) features, providing invaluable feedback to Red Hat engineering teams. As a frequent speaker, having presented at past Red Hat Summits and again in Atlanta, Vincent is a true customer ambassador.

He has successfully designed and onboarded internal customers to OpenShift Virtualization, OpenShift AI, and Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh, constantly pushing these technologies and our documentation to their limits. Beyond advocacy, Vincent works closely with Red Hat engineering to identify gaps and help resolve deep technical issues, making him an invaluable partner and a true ambassador for the community.”

— Nominated by Dan Dobrescu, Red Hat

Nominate today

Do you know someone who helps the community thrive? Nominations are open for our upcoming OpenShift Superhero Awards, which will be celebrated at our next OpenShift Commons community event. Help us shine a spotlight on the builders, ambassadors, and advocates making a difference!

2025 Red Hat OpenShift Superheroes

At Red Hat OpenShift Commons, co-located with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA in Atlanta, we had the chance to recognize a few OpenShift Superheroes. While each member of the OpenShift community is a hero for helping contribute to a project’s success and growth, some members really stand out. They are the advocates and champions who make the community strong and successful.

Earlier this month at Red Hat OpenShift Commons, co-located with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA in Atlanta, we had the chance to recognize a few OpenShift Superheroes. While each member of the OpenShift community is a hero for helping contribute to a project’s success and growth, some members really stand out. They are the advocates and champions who make the community strong and successful.

OpenShift Superheroes are made up of:

• Builders: Contributing to the evolution of OpenShift
• Advocates: Amplifying their OpenShift experience and learnings through events, blogs, meetups, and more
• Ambassadors: Shares knowledge across diverse teams, industries, organizations

Meet the superheroes

Here's a look at who we recognized for helping to advance the community through their contributions, participation, and innovation. These nominations have been edited slightly for readability and context.

Larry Green (Neuberger Berman)

The Ambassador

“I’m nominating Larry Green from Neuberger Berman for the OpenShift Commons Super Hero Award. Larry has been instrumental in championing platform adoption across NB,  implementing and managing a Kafka cluster on OpenShift that supports diverse enterprise workflows. His architectural leadership unified multiple vertical teams—spanning data, DevOps, and application domains—under a common OpenShift platform. Through collaboration, mentorship, and a strong technical vision, Larry has helped establish OpenShift as the standard across NB’s modernization efforts.”

Luis Duran (ABB)

The Advocate

“Luis has been our OpenShift evangelist within ABB and in the process automation industry since the beginning of our partnership. We would like to thank him for his work and trust in Red Hat! Luis has been advocating Red Hat's technology stack (in particular OpenShift) within ABB, allowing Red Hat to navigate the complexity of ABB and enabling cross collaboration among different teams in ABB and Red Hat. His business acumen and understanding of process automation has been a real asset for Red Hat to make important business cases to further develop the product.”

Marcus Dobeck (PNC)

The Ambassador

“PNC Marcus Dobeck is nominated for the 'Heavy Metal' Ambassador award for enablement of the bare metal infrastructure provider in support of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. Prior to this, PNC only had a single supported virtualization infrastructure provider for OpenShift. Under the leadership of Marcus, multiple teams were brought together to successfully complete a Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization MVP within the PNC on-premise environment. At Red Hat Summit 2025, the PNC CTO requested a MVP of OpenShift on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and Marcus was able to call upon the 'PNC Hair Nation' and successfully 'rock' the MVP.”

Reynaldo Linares (Verizon)

The Ambassador

“Reynaldo is a jewel at Verizon...by the time he comes to us (assuming he even needs us), we know he's deep in it and can explain precisely where he stands. He asks excellent questions, advocates OpenShift within his organization, and is an excellent customer to work with. It saddens me that he's so talented because that means we don't get the pleasure of working with him as often.”