Speakers

BB is the Lead Systems Engineer at The Home Depot. You can find him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bb-laycock-6b4494132/

Tony has been with Pacific for eight years. During that time, he has worked tirelessly with his team to help transform the University's antiquated data center approach to a modern cloud-first institution. This has put the University in a strong position to tackle many challenges facing Higher Education, today.

Eric Alba is an active contributor to numerous open source projects including Rubrik’s own Python SDK and Rubrik Ansible Modules projects and he has nearly 15 years of experience in IT. At the Home Depot, he has had a hand in nearly every critical part of the core IT infrastructure, including systems-design, disaster recovery, monitoring, automation, and networking.

Brandon Morris is the Lead Systems Administrator for the City of Sioux Falls. He has over 15 years of experience in Information Management and leading technical teams. For the past three years, Brandon has been a strong Rubrik customer and partner, participating in Rubrik's Technical Advisory Board for the past two years. His favorite thing about Rubrik is that "we’ve become partners, working together to create products focused on improving the customer experience."

Wendy Bahr leads Rubrik’s MSP and Partner Channels, Hardware and Software Alliances, Inside Sales and Professional Services teams. She is responsible for driving strategic alignment that accelerates the company’s global growth and drives best-in-class customer and partner satisfaction. Prior to joining Rubrik, Wendy served as the Senior Vice President of the Global Partner Organization at Cisco Systems, Inc.

Rebecca is the Director of Developer Relations at Rubrik. Rebecca has worked with various federal agencies, foreign governments, enterprises, and service providers across multiple verticals designing and implementing data center infrastructures, as well as private and public cloud architectures.

Emad Younis is a Staff Cloud Architect working in the Hybrid Cloud Services Business Unit, part of the R&D organization at VMware. He currently focuses on workload mobility and hybrid connectivity with VMware HCX for on-premises and cloud infrastructures. Emad works with engineering and product management to help provide early feedback on usability, design, and architecture.

Vincent is a Network Engineer at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. You can find him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincent-waniel-9a9a811b/

Tim Carr is a Staff Cloud Native Field Engineer at VMware and a member of the Heptio acquisition. In his role, he helps evaluate and optimize customers’ desired architectures. He helps deploy and integrate various CNCF projects to meet advanced needs in alignment with customer goals and is an active contributor to the upstream Kubernetes community.