Affiliation
Red Hat
Qualifications for candidacy
Employee member of organisation. Additionally, I have contributed to the project by speaking at the FINOS Toronto 2026 supporting the FINOS AI Evaluation Framework and supporting the workshop AI GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK TRAINING WORKSHOP - OSFF TORONTO. I meet frequently with members of the FSI community, including Red Hat customers, contributors, and end-users within the CNCF community to understand their technical and business needs and challenges.
I love contributing to the community and the industry and have spoken at conferences such as KubeCon Japan-Europe-NA, Open Source Summit NA, Red Hat Community Day, KCD NY, Open Source in Finance Forum New York and Toronto. I’ve been involved with projects at CNCF, contributed to Platform as a Product among other topics with other working groups. In the last years, I've being part of the Kubeflow community contributing as a Release Management and currently, I'm a co-Chair of the Outreach Program, where I help the Kubeflow community to grow on the CNCF ecosystem and bring technical expertise to the community when needed.
Bio
Valentina Rodriguez is a Principal Architect FSI at Red Hat where she helps customers adopt and understand AI solutions to advance business. In her role Valentina works with diverse stakeholders at Red Hat, and customers from different groups and roles within organizations including technical business leaders. She brings technical expertise to drive technical discussions, presentations to understand customer needs to translate them into technical solutions that drive business value. Valentina transforms business use cases and technical challenges into architectural patterns to be adopted to the larger FSI ecosystem.
She possesses a Master's in Computer Science and an MBA which is the foundation for her skills on business connection with technology, understanding how technology can be applied to drive organization value, remove blockers and help adopt best practices with open source projects. Prior to Red Hat, Valentina worked in the software industry for 15 years, working in diverse roles from Developer to Tech Lead and Architect where she had the opportunity to work with FSI on diverse projects including app modernization and helping design architectural systems.
What impact do you hope to have on the ecosystem during your tenure as TOC member?
Working with FSI organizations is my passion as well as working with the open source ecosystem, and I see FINOS as the intersection of both. My goal is to leverage my expertise in FSI, open source, technology and process to help the FINOS community expand its network of contributors and end-users. To achieve this, I want to drive awareness to FSI organizations to collaborate, adopt and strengthen current solutions and bring to FINOS new projects that can help advance open source projects in the FSI community to create value within the ecosystem. Additionally, I look forward to identifying opportunities within the broader open source community such as CNCF, OpenSSF to foster collaboration and bring awareness of the FINOS community.
Are there any FINOS Strategic Initiatives you would be interested in working on?
I am passionate about AI solutions, specifically contributing to AI Governance, AI Sovereignty, Open Data, and the CCC. That said, I am also eager to support other initiatives as needed.
Confirmation & Commitment
Affiliation
Red Hat
Qualifications for candidacy
Employee member of organisation. Additionally, I have contributed to the project by speaking at the FINOS Toronto 2026 supporting the FINOS AI Evaluation Framework and supporting the workshop AI GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK TRAINING WORKSHOP - OSFF TORONTO. I meet frequently with members of the FSI community, including Red Hat customers, contributors, and end-users within the CNCF community to understand their technical and business needs and challenges.
I love contributing to the community and the industry and have spoken at conferences such as KubeCon Japan-Europe-NA, Open Source Summit NA, Red Hat Community Day, KCD NY, Open Source in Finance Forum New York and Toronto. I’ve been involved with projects at CNCF, contributed to Platform as a Product among other topics with other working groups. In the last years, I've being part of the Kubeflow community contributing as a Release Management and currently, I'm a co-Chair of the Outreach Program, where I help the Kubeflow community to grow on the CNCF ecosystem and bring technical expertise to the community when needed.
Bio
Valentina Rodriguez is a Principal Architect FSI at Red Hat where she helps customers adopt and understand AI solutions to advance business. In her role Valentina works with diverse stakeholders at Red Hat, and customers from different groups and roles within organizations including technical business leaders. She brings technical expertise to drive technical discussions, presentations to understand customer needs to translate them into technical solutions that drive business value. Valentina transforms business use cases and technical challenges into architectural patterns to be adopted to the larger FSI ecosystem.
She possesses a Master's in Computer Science and an MBA which is the foundation for her skills on business connection with technology, understanding how technology can be applied to drive organization value, remove blockers and help adopt best practices with open source projects. Prior to Red Hat, Valentina worked in the software industry for 15 years, working in diverse roles from Developer to Tech Lead and Architect where she had the opportunity to work with FSI on diverse projects including app modernization and helping design architectural systems.
What impact do you hope to have on the ecosystem during your tenure as TOC member?
Working with FSI organizations is my passion as well as working with the open source ecosystem, and I see FINOS as the intersection of both. My goal is to leverage my expertise in FSI, open source, technology and process to help the FINOS community expand its network of contributors and end-users. To achieve this, I want to drive awareness to FSI organizations to collaborate, adopt and strengthen current solutions and bring to FINOS new projects that can help advance open source projects in the FSI community to create value within the ecosystem. Additionally, I look forward to identifying opportunities within the broader open source community such as CNCF, OpenSSF to foster collaboration and bring awareness of the FINOS community.
Are there any FINOS Strategic Initiatives you would be interested in working on?
I am passionate about AI solutions, specifically contributing to AI Governance, AI Sovereignty, Open Data, and the CCC. That said, I am also eager to support other initiatives as needed.
Confirmation & Commitment