Harish currently heads the Community Architecture and Leadership team in Red Hat Asia Pacific. He has been with Red Hat since helping to set up their Singapore/Asia Pacific operations in 2003. In 2019, Red Hat was acquired by IBM for a cash offer of US$34 billion and is now a distinct and separate subsidiary of IBM.
In 2005, Harish was inducted into the Council of Outstanding Early Career Engineers of the College of Engineering, Oregon State University for his contributions to engineering and the global open source technology community. He is passionate about playing a part in Singapore’s digital transformation journey.
In 2013 , Harish received the SPRING Singapore (now Enterprise Singapore) Distinguished Partner Award for helping with driving standards adoption in IT in Singapore and around the world.