Nirmal Ranganathan is the VP and Distinguished Architect at Rackspace and is responsible for AI Engineering, technology strategy, and roadmap for Rackspace's FAIR solutions portfolio. Nirmal leads FAIR (Foundry for Generative AI by Rackspace), a practice dedicated to accelerating the secure, responsible, and sustainable adoption of generative AI solutions across industries. Nirmal has worked with data over the past 2 decades, solving distributed systems challenges dealing with large volumes of data, being a customer advocate and helping customers solve their data challenges. Nirmal consults with customers around large-scale databases, data processing, data analytics and data warehousing in the cloud, providing solutions for innovative use cases across industries leveraging AI and Machine Learning.