Rimma Iontel

Chief Telco Architect, Red Hat

Speaker Bio

Rimma Iontel is a Chief Telco Architect at Red Hat.  She is responsible for supporting Red Hat’s global ecosystem of customers and partners in the Telecommunications industry and also represents the industry in the CTO Organization.  Since joining Red Hat in 2014, she’s been assisting customers and partners in their network transformation journey, helping them leverage Red Hat open source solutions to build future-proof telecommunication networks capable of providing modern advanced services to the consumers in an efficient, sustainable, and cost-effective way. 


Rimma has over twenty years of experience working in the telecommunications industry. Prior to joining Red Hat, she spent fourteen years at Verizon working on Next Generation Networks initiatives and contributing to the first steps of the company’s transition from legacy networks to the software defined cloud infrastructure.