Rodrique Heron is a Senior Manager, Account Solution Architecture at Red Hat, leading a team of Account Solution Architects supporting the United States Air Force and Space Force. A Red Hat Certified Architect with sixteen years at Red Hat, his technical focus is AI at the operational edge: deployment patterns for forward inference, small-model orchestration for disconnected operations, and AI-augmented defense for mission systems. His work centers on the patterns that let warfighters use production AI when a link to a data center is not available. He is based in Orlando, Florida.