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.
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.

Boskey Savla
Senior Technical Marketing Architect at VMWare
Focused on spreading knowledge on Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations.

Chris Culpin
Senior Technical Instructor at VMware
Assessor for new instructors and responsibility for Beta and Train the Trainer courses.

Cody McCain
Senior Product Manager at Cisco
Passionate about Project Antrea and container networking.

Corey Dinkens
Technical Marketing Architect at VMware
Focused on spreading knowledge on VMware Tanzu Mission Control.
Diana Carroll
Technical Content Developer at VMware
Focused on creating learning content related to Tanzu.

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.

Frederick Verduyckt
Lead Solution Engineer at VMware
Based in Belgium and is passionate about Networking and Security.

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.

John Gardner
Staff Technical Solutions Architect at VMware
A technologist with deep experience in many aspects of software, systems and application development.

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.
Lee Xie
Senior Education Engineer at VMware
Works on creating and delivering Kubernetes based education.

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.
Neil Winton
Staff Solution Architect at VMware Tanzu
Loves helping other people to learn, grow and develop

Nicholas Seemiller
Software Engineer at BetterUp
Helped to bring VMware’s flavor of Kubernetes to the Open Source community.

Nigel Brown
Senior Open Source Community Manager at VMware
Based in Austin, Texas and focused on Cloud Native Technologies like containers and Kubernetes.

Niran Evenchen
Senior Product Manager at VMware
Responsible for overseeing the development and success of the Tanzu Service Mesh product line.
Paul Wiggett
Staff Field Engineer at VMware Tanzu
Focused on spreading knowledge and best practices on the majority of the Tanzu portfolio.

Ryan Baker
Senior Technical Marketing Architect at VMware
Focused on spreading knowledge and best practices on Tanzu Application Platform.
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.

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.

Scott Rogers
Technical Marketing Manager at VMware
Focused on spreading knowledge on VMware Aria Operations for Applications.
Scott Sisil
Senior Product Line Manager at VMware
Focuses on building products that increase developer productivity in a sustainable and scalable way.

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.