Rajan Shah
Manager of Software Engineering_Global at Red Hat · DevConf.IN Lead Organizer · Open Source Ambassador
Pune, India
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A community-driven leader, Rajan believes in empowering people through technology, connection, curiosity, and collaboration. He is personally passionate about sponsorship, thought leadership, coaching, mentoring, and nurturing psychologically safe teams where creativity thrives and performance outpaces.
Rajan is leading Red Hat’s Global Partner Ecosystem Engineering for Tech Certifications & Ecosystem Portfolio, leveraging an AI-first mindset to scale open-source strategy.
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The Community Scaling Playbook: Lessons from APAC's Cloud Native Journey
As cloud-native technology spread worldwide, growth cannot simply be a function of recruitment anymore; it must be sustained and supported in emerging geographies.
This talk is based on experiences building open-source communities in the APAC and the lessons learned from designing participation models for new participants and leaders in those spaces.
The next challenge facing the ecosystem is community scalability:
• How do we engage emerging regions where open source participation models are still maturing?
• How do we connect maintainers, users, students, enterprises, governments, and startups under one ecosystem?
• How do we scale beyond a single project into interconnected communities spanning AI, cloud-native, platform engineering, and digital public infrastructure?
• How do we ensure that community growth remains sustainable rather than dependent on a handful of passionate volunteers?
In this session we will try to answer all these questions from our experience.
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