Google Cloud Certified Fellows:
Hybrid Multi-cloud
Learn more about the distinguished Google Cloud Certified Fellows and explore their experience and qualifications.
Mark Ayala
Senior Software Engineer, H-E-B
Mark is a Senior Software Engineer with 20+ years of
networking experience in the IT industry, with a focus on cloud technologies and
Kubernetes. His team designs and implements H-E-B’s enterprise hybrid cloud
solutions.
Navveen Balani
Head of Technology, Bridgeweave
Navveen has over 20 years of experience building
enterprise products using exponential technology, specialising in Cloud, AI,
Blockchain, and IoT. He is the author of many books, including an upcoming title on
Anthos.
Shlomo Bielak
CTO, Benchmark
Shlomo's expertise is shifting how global markets focus
on making transformational initiatives at scale and inventing new solutions for
multi-cloud and DevSecOps environments. His approach allows teams to innovate while
also enabling continuous deployments to production.
Niels Buekers
Head of Cloud Services at Fourcast
Niels is the CTO and co-founder at Fourcast with 10+
years of experience with Google Cloud. Niels is passionate about solving real
business challenges with cloud technologies.
Inder Singh Chauhan
Lead Engineer, ANZ Bank
Inder has extensive experience in infrastructure
engineering, site reliability engineering (SRE) practices, and cloud native
technologies. He leads the hybrid cloud journey for a key business domain within
ANZ.
Tejas Cherukara
Lead Engineer, ANZ
Tejas is a lead engineer at ANZ with a passion for SRE,
Cloud Native tech, and fostering a knowledge-sharing culture. His focus is
establishing standards across teams, improving the developer experience, and
decreasing time-to-feature delivery.
Konrad Clapa
Senior Expert and Lead Technical Architect, Atos
Konrad is a Lead Technical Architect on the Atos R&D
team with 10+ years of IT experience (and 30+ industry certifications) working for
top Atos enterprise customers. He is an enthusiast of hybrid and multi-cloud
technologies and worked with Anthos in the early stages of the product, equipping
him with a thorough knowledge of the suite.
Spencer Cuffe
Cloud Architect, World Wide Technology
Spencer helps empower organizations on their journey to
the cloud. People, process and technology are all key parts of a modern environment.
Spencer has a proven track record of effectively working with all of them to
provide solutions to meet their needs.
Volodymyr Davydenko
Solutions Consultant, SoftServe
Volodymyr is working in the Center of Excellence
at SoftServe, leading challenging projects with a focus on hybrid cloud
infrastructure, security, and migration. He is passionate about cloud-native
technologies and helping enterprise customers be successful with Google Cloud and
Anthos.
Tim Delesio
CTO, Techolution
Tim is the CTO at Techolution, where he leads the Cloud
Transformation practice focusing on Cloud-Native Applications, Hybrid-Cloud, and
Application Modernization. He is passionate about helping organizations migrate
to the cloud and technology at large.
Andrew Farrell
Domain Architect - Cloud and DevOps Tooling, ANZ Banking Group
Andrew is a Cloud Architect in Financial Services,
focused on customer outcomes built on cloud computing platforms, automation, and
CI/CD tooling to support the structured delivery of change.
Jaroslaw Gajewski
Lead Technical Cloud Architect, Atos
Jaroslaw leads hybrid and multi-cloud transformation
and application modernization journeys for global enterprise customers through his
work in Atos' Engineering Cloud Enterprise Solutions division.
Christopher Galdes
Technical Principal, Contino
Christopher is a Technical Principal at Contino. He has a
focus on the delivery of hybrid and cloud native platforms as well as automation
best practices to enable the transformation of people, process and technology in
Enterprise.
Brad Geesaman
Independent Security Consultant
As an Independent Security Consultant, Brad helps
clients improve the security of their Kubernetes clusters in cloud-native
environments and educates others on the security risks inherent in complex
distributed systems.
Garrett Griffin
Software Engineer, H-E-B
During Garrett's tenure at H-E-B, he's worked on major
projects, including the H-E-B Curbside Fulfillment and Last Mile Applications. He
designs, configures, and supports the Kubernetes platform.
Mamoun Hirzalla
VP, Google Cloud Solutions Leader at DXC Technology
Mamoun is the Google Cloud Solutions Leader at DXC where
he directs a global team to develop Google Cloud solutions for complex business
problems. He is passionate about helping customers envision, build, and execute
strategies to transform their business using Cloud engineering and hybrid cloud
technologies. He's a hands-on technical leader who’s architected and delivered
platforms and solutions across industries using Google Cloud technology. His 22+
years of experience spans various roles across the entire development life cycle,
and consulting globally.
Dwayne Holmes
Sr. Director IT Delivery, Marriott
As Sr. Director IT Delivery at Marriott, Dwayne and his
team operate one of the largest multi-cloud production Kubernetes clusters, focusing
on enterprise-scale "developer experiences” that include CI/CD, cloud, DevOps, and
containers. He’s working on a rapid development framework that companies can use to
lower costs and quickly bring ideas to market.
Ted Hunter
Solution Principal, Slalom
Ted is a Solution Principal with Slalom Consulting and
author of Google Cloud Platform for Developers. His background includes application
modernization, infrastructure automation, SRE, and designing enterprise data
solutions.
Gabe Jaynes
Hybrid Cloud Specialist, Google
Gabe joined Google from KeyBank, where he was a
founding member of the DevOps practice and worked as the Principal Cloud
Architect driving cloud direction and adoption. Gabe was responsible for
designing and implementing the containerized/Kubernetes environment at Key
and worked with Google to help pilot and deploy Anthos as part of the Early
Access Program.
Junya Kuwayama
Cloud Engineer, NTT Communications
Junya is a cloud architect in NTT Ltd., working on both
private and public cloud solutions, specializing in Google Cloud. He has contributed
to multiple Google Cloud and Kubernetes projects towards developing a more
productive application development experience.
Norman L. Johnson IV
Senior Automation Engineer of Cloud Service, SAS
Norman specializes in DevSecOps, modernization,
and hybrid cloud adoption at SAS. After two decades working in all areas of IT,
he knows what drives innovation and improves efficiency: understanding the
technology, addressing customer needs, and designing the best ROI solutions.
His experience in management and training enabled him to teach DevSecOps best
practices to numerous companies.
Chris Leibl
Principal Security Consultant at ScaleSec
Chris is passionate about helping customers automate
cloud security and compliance requirements into the software development lifecycle.
He has experience across highly regulated industries such as Public Sector,
Financial Services, and Healthcare.
Aurora Li
Consultant, Arctiq
Aurora spends most of her time helping enterprise
customers modernize their application platforms with a focus on security, agility,
resiliency. She works closely with customers as well as Google to provide
future-proof hybrid and multi-cloud solutions.
Chris Love
Founder, LionKube
As a thought leader in the Kubernetes and DevOps
segment, Chris is a founder of multiple technology companies with 20+ years
experience in software engineering. He has contributed to several open-source
projects including Kubernetes, Bazel, and Terraform. Chris is also a published
author of the book "Core Kubernetes".
Michael Madison
Cloud Platform Architect, World Wide Technology
As a Cloud Platform Architect, Michael works to help
organizations on their journey to the cloud. His background includes application
modernization, hybrid-cloud, big-data, and devops. He has supported finance, large
retail, national food chains, professional sports, and many other organizations on
their journey to the cloud.
David "Mac" McDaniel
Director, Cloud Professional Services at Qwinix
Mac has over 30 years of experience in the industry. He
has worked on projects leading tactical and strategic implementations and migrations
with organizations ranging from startups to the Fortune 50. He has over a decade of
experience as a thought leadership in cloud technology, and is currently focusing
on hybrid and multi-cloud solutions.
Babak Nasri
Information Technology Architecture Manager, TELUS
Babak is a Manager in Technology Architecture at Telus
Health and has a 20+ year history of development, architecture, security,
operation, and management in IT. He’s on a quest to apply technology to improve
lives and enable customers to deliver positive outcomes.
Liam Nesteroff
Principal, Servian
Liam has over 10 years of experience designing cloud
platforms. He is passionate about helping enterprise customers innovate through
multi-cloud adoption in a reliable and secure way.
Jason O'Connell
GCP Platform Owner, Macquarie Banking & Financial Services
Jason is the GCP Platform Owner at Macquarie and
passionate about platforms that unleash developer productivity while improving
risk and security. He believes experimentation, failing fast, and releasing often
are capabilities that platforms unlock to help businesses grow.
Gaurav Pasricha
Senior Consultant, HCL Technologies
Gaurav has 16 years of experience in the IT industry,
with a focus on delivery on hybrid and multi-cloud platforms. As a senior consultant
at HCL, he partners with customers in their transformation journey towards adoption
of Cloud Native technologies.
Robin Percy
CTO, OpsGuru
Robin is the CTO of OpsGuru, where he provides thought
leadership to employees and customers on Cloud-Native technologies, processes, and
strategies. He is a Kubernetes contributor that specializes in building large-scale,
hybrid-cloud platforms.
Jason Quek
CTO, DevoTeam Cloud Services
Jason is the CTO of Devoteam Cloud Services and
specializes in Google Cloud, Kubernetes and Anthos. His team has helped many
customers in Europe and APAC to move to Google Cloud and utilize it to meet their
business goals.
Zach Snee
Cloud Transformation & Migration Manager, Accenture
As a certified Cloud Solutions Architect, Zach has led
Accenture and partner teams in the design and deployment of IaaS and PaaS solutions
on Google Cloud and other CSPs to meet customers’ hybrid and multi-cloud needs.
His 13+ years of IT experience spans retail, telecommunications, financial
services, and government.
Mike Sparr
Staff Cloud Architect, DoIT International
Mike is a Staff Cloud Architect at DoiT International
that has held various senior leadership roles in startups and enterprise companies
for 20 years. He is passionate about software, DevOps, and helping organizations
thrive with cloud technology.
Scott Surovich
Global Container Engineering Lead, HSBC Bank
With 25+ years of experience in information technology,
including Windows, Linux, virtualization, cloud technologies, Docker, and
Kubernetes, Scott has spent the last two years as Global Container Engineering
Lead, focusing on the design and implementation of HSBC’s global Kubernetes
platform running on GKE.
Andrzej Szelemetko
Head of Technology, Google Cloud Partnership, GFT Poland
Andrzej is a cloud architect with proficiency in cloud
native apps, microservices, databases, data streaming, and hybrid cloud. He has work
experience driving cloud projects in multiple industries, including virtual banking.
As Head of Google Cloud partnership at GFT Poland, he drives collaboration between
technology and the marketplace.
Phil Taylor
Chief Technology Officer, IGNW
Phil is Chief Technology Officer at IGNW, overseeing
next generation software engineering, cloud, DevOps, and advanced infrastructure.
He is passionate about helping customers create digital transformation strategies
that drive better ROI and reduce time to market on infrastructure and software
delivery. Phil has 20+ years experience building software in financial, healthcare,
retail, and manufacturing verticals.
Jonas Vadebo
Site Reliability Engineer, NetEnt
In 2018, Jonas joined operations at NetEnt, Stockholm,
as Site Reliability Engineer and Developer Advocate, where he’s helping to build a
Site Reliability Service team and evolving their gaming platform using Google Cloud
and Anthos. He has almost a decade of experience in software engineering as a
developer.
Jenn Viau
Consultant, Arctiq
Jenn is passionate about exploring new approaches, tools,
and methodologies, and helping people find the "right" way and "right" tooling to
get things done. That’s been the recipe for success in her 15+ year career from
Systems Administrator to DevOps Engineer to her present position as Consultant.
Brendan Wreford
Principal Engineer - Australia Business Transformation, ANZ Bank
Brendan is a Principal Engineer at ANZ with extensive
experience in software engineering, site reliability engineering and cloud native
technologies. He is currently leading a large team responsible for building a next
generation digital banking platform.
John Wynkoop
Chief Technology Officer, Eastern Region, IGNW
Serving as IGNW’s Regional CTO for the Southeast US, John
helps customers build and execute strategies to speed time to market through
adoption of hybrid cloud and cloud-native technologies. He is passionate about
building scalable distributed systems and leading customers in digital
transformation, infrastructure automation, and application modernization through
adoption of SRE practices.