Vamsi Chemitiganti is Chief Strategist at Platform9 Systems (www.platform9.com). Vamsi works with Platform9's Client CXOs and Architects to help them on key business transformation initiatives. In previous roles, Vamsi was the CTO for RiskCounts, a FinTech firm based in NYC. Prior to that he spent eight years as the Chief Architect for Red Hat’s Global Financial Services Vertical. Vamsi also spent two years as the general manager of Financial Services at Hortonworks. In both roles, Vamsi was responsible for driving Red Hat and Hortonworks technology vision from a client business standpoint. In 2013, Wall Street and Technology Magazine identified Vamsi as a Global Thought Leader.