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Steven Huels

Vice President of AI Engineering, Red Hat

  • Vice President of AI Engineering, Red Hat1

Steven Huels is Vice President of Red Hat's AI Engineering organization, accountable for developing and releasing Red Hat's AI product portfolio. Red Hat's author biography says Huels previously served as Vice President and General Manager of Red Hat's AI business unit, where Huels led its strategy, product portfolio, and field readiness. Huels has more than 20 years of experience with data management and AI platforms, and as one of the founders of Open Data Hub, an open-source machine learning platform, was responsible for bringing it to market as Red Hat OpenShift AI.12

At a glance

Current role
Vice President of AI Engineering
Company
Red Hat
Sector
Company
Work listed
1
Sources cited
4
Profile reviewed

Career

A 2018 profile on the Red Hat Collaboratory at Boston University site described Steven Huels as a Senior Manager in the Red Hat AI Center of Excellence, responsible for Red Hat's common analytics platform, which combined internal and upstream data for machine learning and advanced analytics. The profile noted an interest in applying image manipulation techniques to the ChRIS platform.3

A 2023 Red Hat TV webinar listed Huels as Senior Director for Red Hat's AI platform business, working on AI strategy, ecosystem partners and customer implementations. Huels later served as Vice President and General Manager of Red Hat's AI Business Unit and is now Vice President of the AI Engineering organization, accountable for developing and releasing Red Hat's AI product portfolio.421

Products and projects

Huels is one of the founders of Open Data Hub, which the 2023 webinar listing describes as a reference architecture for building a data science platform on Red Hat OpenShift. Red Hat's author biography says Huels was responsible for bringing Open Data Hub to market as Red Hat OpenShift AI.41

Work and contributions

  • Open Data Hub and Red Hat OpenShift AI

    Red Hat's author biography names Huels as one of the founders of Open Data Hub, an open-source machine learning platform, and says Huels was responsible for bringing it to market as Red Hat OpenShift AI.1

Timeline

  1. Listed by the Red Hat Collaboratory at Boston University as a Senior Manager in the Red Hat AI Center of Excellence.3
  2. Spoke in the Red Hat webinar "Getting the most out of AI with open source and Kubernetes" as a Senior Director.4

Other documented roles

Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.

  • Vice President and General Manager, AI Business Unit, Red Hat12

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References

4 sources · profile reviewed Oct 21, 2026 · data updated Oct 21, 2026

  1. Steven Huels — Vice President of AI Engineering (Red Hat author page)Red Hat · Official page · accessed Oct 21, 2026
  2. Steven Huels — General Manager, AI Business Unit (earlier Red Hat author page)Red Hat · Official page · accessed Oct 21, 2026
  3. Steven Huels — Red Hat Collaboratory at Boston University people profileBoston University (Red Hat Collaboratory) · Official page · accessed Oct 21, 2026
  4. Getting the most out of AI with open source and Kubernetes — Red Hat TVRed Hat · Official page · published 2023 · accessed Oct 21, 2026