Instructors

Meet our Instructors

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Aaron Torgerson

Solutions Engineer at Upbound

Was the first member of the technical marketing team for Tanzu Application Platform.

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Andrew Lee

Technical Content Developer at VMware

Building and delivering easy to consume technical content of all levels

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Bijoy Choudhury

Senior Solutions Architect at VMware

Focuses on designing and developing educational learning paths for cloud-native practices and technologies, specifically around VMware Tanzu and the Kubernetes ecosystem.

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Boskey Savla

Senior Technical Marketing Architect at VMWare

Focused on spreading knowledge on Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations.

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Chris Culpin

Senior Technical Instructor at VMware

Assessor for new instructors and responsibility for Beta and Train the Trainer courses.

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Cody McCain

Senior Product Manager at Cisco

Passionate about Project Antrea and container networking.

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Corey Dinkens

Technical Marketing Architect at VMware

Focused on spreading knowledge on VMware Tanzu Mission Control.

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Diana Carroll

Technical Content Developer at VMware

Focused on creating learning content related to Tanzu.

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Eitan Suez

Content Engineer at Tetrate

Delivered training on the Tanzu Application Service (TAS), Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition (TKGI), and Platform Automation with Concourse.

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Frederick Verduyckt

Lead Solution Engineer at VMware

Based in Belgium and is passionate about Networking and Security.

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Guy Barrette

Technical Content Developer at VMware Tanzu

Focused on creating learning content related to Tanzu.

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Jason Goocher

Head of Customer Success at CtrlStack, Inc.

Built a strong passion for customer empathy, knowledge sharing, and creating world-class team cultures throughout his 10 years in the SaaS startup space.

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John Gardner

Staff Technical Solutions Architect at VMware

A technologist with deep experience in many aspects of software, systems and application development.

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Kenny Coleman

Staff Technical Marketing Architect at VMware

Looks to spread knowledge on interesting ways to integrate open source cloud native infrastructure tools with VMware Tanzu products.

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Lee Xie

Senior Education Engineer at VMware

Works on creating and delivering Kubernetes based education.

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Marc Alumbaugh

Staff Technical Instructor at VMware

Teaches customers how to build and manage their cloud with tools like Tanzu, Kubernetes, VCF, HCX, vRealize Automation/Orchestrator, NSX-T and VMware Cloud on AWS.

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Neil Winton

Staff Solution Architect at VMware Tanzu

Loves helping other people to learn, grow and develop

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Nicholas Seemiller

Software Engineer at BetterUp

Helped to bring VMware’s flavor of Kubernetes to the Open Source community.

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Nigel Brown

Senior Open Source Community Manager at VMware

Based in Austin, Texas and focused on Cloud Native Technologies like containers and Kubernetes.

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Niran Evenchen

Senior Product Manager at VMware

Responsible for overseeing the development and success of the Tanzu Service Mesh product line.

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Paul Wiggett

Staff Field Engineer at VMware Tanzu

Focused on spreading knowledge and best practices on the majority of the Tanzu portfolio.

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Ryan Baker

Senior Technical Marketing Architect at VMware

Focused on spreading knowledge and best practices on Tanzu Application Platform.

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Ryan Schneider

Lead Technical Trainer at VMware

Passionate about architecture and building great systems. Excited about the cloud native movement that the Kubernetes community is driving.

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Scott Lowe

Principal Field Engineer at Kong, Inc.

Focused on Kubernetes and related cloud-native technologies. Helps customers deploy and deliver applications with cloud-native and open source technologies.

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Scott Rogers

Technical Marketing Manager at VMware

Focused on spreading knowledge on VMware Aria Operations for Applications.

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Scott Sisil

Senior Product Line Manager at VMware

Focuses on building products that increase developer productivity in a sustainable and scalable way.

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Sergi Almar

Java and Spring Software Engineer, Spring I/O organizer

Based in sunny Barcelona, Sergi is an experienced software developer and architect focused on JVM technologies. Sergi is the lead organizer of the Spring I/O conference.

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