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When it comes to modernizing critical infrastructure and infusing AI into enterprise operations, technology alone is not enough. Only people can close the gap between AI ambition and AI execution. Hard numbers support this thesis: Kyndryl’s 2026 People Readiness Report reveals that while 57% of organizational leaders indicate enterprise-wide adoption of AI, only 23% express confidence in workforce readiness. Additionally, the report finds that 79% of business leaders worry that their workforces can’t keep up with the new ways of working that AI is driving.
Kyndryl’s newly elected 2026 Distinguished Engineers and Fellow are helping customers address these issues as they modernize their IT estates for the AI era.
Kyndryl Fellows and Distinguished Engineers are experts in the space where business and technology intersect, and exemplify a culture where technical expertise, innovation and continuous learning are valued and celebrated. Operating from a foundation of market-leading innovation, Kyndryl Fellows and DEs work with the firm’s consultants, designers and delivery teams to illuminate — and navigate — pathways to shared success for our customers and partners.
Modernizing the mainframe
New Kyndryl Fellow Clea Zolotow is focused on redefining the role of the mainframe in the AI era. She works at the intersection of enterprise architecture, agentic AI, resiliency and operational intelligence, helping organizations transform the systems that run the world’s most critical businesses. Rather than viewing the mainframe as simply a system of record, Clea focuses on elevating it into a strategic platform for AI-driven insights, autonomous operations and enterprise-wide innovation in a hybrid IT environment.
Her work centers on creating trusted frameworks that connect customer-developed AI, commercial AI platforms and enterprise operational systems into a governed, observable and secure ecosystem. By bringing together mainframe, cloud and distributed technologies, Clea enables organizations to accelerate innovation while maintaining the reliability, security and performance that have made the platform indispensable for decades.
Beyond technology transformation, Clea is a dedicated advocate for workforce readiness and innovation culture. Through mentoring, patent development programs, university partnerships and STEM initiatives, she is helping to develop the next generation of engineers, architects and technology leaders who will shape the future of enterprise computing.
Driving core enterprise evolution
Drawing upon extensive industry experience in banking, insurance, transportation, public sector and more, new Kyndryl Distinguished Engineer Luis Aused helps organizations align their IT transformation projects with business priorities and strategies for long-term growth.
He believes that achieving business outcomes must be the starting point for any successful transformation strategy. Simply refreshing technologies in a vacuum is not enough. Luis refers to his holistic approach to modernization as “core enterprise evolution.” That requires having the cross-industry expertise to guide customers through targeted assessments of their IT environments. And then having the technical chops and organizational savvy to help customers design future-state architectures and develop clear business cases for transformation.
Luis’s advisor-first approach helps ensure that customers make decisions that balance innovation, cost, agility and risk.
Reimagining reliability for mission-critical services in the AI era
As enterprises modernize applications and scale distributed architectures, new Kyndryl Distinguished Engineer Haytham Elkhoja develops strategies for application-centric reliability transformation. Rather than treating reliability as a standalone operational function, Haytham regards it as a core engineering principle — a foundation that enables and supports resilience across complex service chains, hybrid architectures, legacy platforms and external dependencies.
Expertise in this area is critical to organizations running mission-critical services in highly regulated industries, where constant changes in legislation, technology and market realities require top-tier levels of agility to design AI agents that anticipate and avoid the types of failures that compromise business operations. While most are racing to adopt agentic AI, Haytham is building the engineering foundations required to make these systems dependable.
Combining technical mastery with customer insight
For Kunio Namba, technical expertise and customer knowledge are inseparable. Kunio’s expertise spans infrastructure, application development and both customer-facing and co-creation roles.
As a new Kyndryl Distinguished Engineer, Kunio brings a unique and highly valued perspective on how technology decisions impact business outcomes. His widely ranging expertise enables Kunio to visualize and explain to customers how complex technologies can help drive business value.
Kunio’s capabilities engender customer trust. These are essential qualities for technical leaders in dynamic environments.
Guiding large-scale business transformations
AI, automation and SAP transformation have been key components of enterprise transformation. The trick is to maintain business continuity while modernizing legacy environments and navigating the complexities of cloud migration.
New Kyndryl Distinguished Engineer Andreas Nonnenmacher is an expert at guiding organizations through technical and operational transformations with minimal business disruption. He plays a key role in helping ensure that customers’ technology investments produce measurable business outcomes.
“Positive” is a keyword here — not just in terms of customer ROI, but in the passion and infectious excitement that Andreas brings to engagements. Companies want to work with people who know what they’re doing, and who love what they do. Andreas is both.
Laying foundations for AI success
Pedro Soares is a leading expert in enterprise knowledge management. Newly elected as a Kyndryl Distinguished Engineer, Pedro focuses on helping organizations get their data ready to support AI-enabled applications.
As enterprises are discovering, AI can only deliver value when it is built on a strong data foundation. Effective knowledge management enables AI to drill down to the value level of an organization’s data as part of an infusion throughout the IT environment.
But there’s more to it than that. Pedro’s achievements illustrate how knowledge management is not a singular instance of engagement. Rather, it is a continuous effort involving technology, governance and culture — in addition to data maturity.
Pedro’s perspective and expertise help move AI adoption from the planning stage to the delivery of business value.
