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Abhinav, Kumar
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Ahmed, Ilham
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Ahmed, Sabeehah
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/e0a659be1385d03db4ca9eed09b1826d'
bio: "Sabeehah Ahmed is a Solutions Architect specializing in Google Cloud. She
creates detailed design solutions to meet customer requirements. Sabeehah
studied Biomedical Engineering at university, where she learned about medical
devices. And she loves desserts, especially anything with chocolate."

Anand, Vikrant
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/98991c72835ea03135094fb2a1b6e3c0'
bio: "Vikrant is a database consultant with extensive work in database technical
support, production database administration, database migration, design and
architecture for several business areas. He has vast experience interacting with
national and international clients from various business areas and a good
understanding of requirement analysis and database technology implementation."

Batham, Bhupendra
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/e64fc7787bc24eac1a8c969c4eceda44'
bio: "Bhupendra Batham has more than 12 of experience with Oracle technology
and currently works at Rackspace. He is enthusiastic, a quick learner, and
always learns new technologies. His strengths include analytical thinking,
problem solving, learning from mistakes, and working well under pressure."

Bhatnagar, Amit Kumar
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/c9c74dd30299675961e5160a4fbb05fe'
bio: "Amit is a DBA with 14+ years of excellent professional exposure and
experience in Oracle/Mysql/Vertica/Postgres/NoSQL(Cassandra)/MongoDB database
servers, with extensive knowledge of the functional areas of business
administration and the application of information technology for efficient
management of business processes."

Belke, Emily
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/4a7de5d7772b14826cca8496c410ba88'
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Benmbarek, Mustapha
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bio: Mustapha works with startups and companies of any size to support their
innovation. In his role as Solutions Architect at Rackspace, he leverages his
experience to help people bring their ideas to life, providing guidance and
technical assistance on cloud-based and AWS architectures.

Bonig, Matthew
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/17fefeb3c1832175bf6fbe9841368292'
bio: "As a Senior Software Engineer at Rackspace, Matthew draws upon his 15
years of web application development experience to help architect highly-available,
fault-tolerant, scalable, and secure AWS environments composed of a wide range
of services in the AWS portfolio, including Compute, Storage, Database,
Networking, Developer Tools, and more. He is an AWS certified Solutions Architect.
His hobbies include hiking the foothills of Colorado and walks with his wife
and dogs."

Booth, Karisa
authorAvatar: 'http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/c5a8a633797f4b8c85b5b5bad605cd18'
bio: "Karisa is an experienced Cloud Architect with a demonstrated history of
working in the information technology and services industry. She is skilled in
working with a variety of verticals including non-profit organizations, higher
education, retail, and HLS as well as providing technical evaluations, program
execution, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), event management, and
marketing/technology. Karisa is passionate about cloud technology and marketing
and about combining these to create unique solutions for clients."

education, retail, and HLS; providing technical evaluations, program execution,
Customer Relationship Management (CRM), event management, and marketing/tech.
Karisa is passionate about cloud technology and marketing and combining these
to create unique solutions for clients."

Brinkman, Michiel
authorAvatar: 'https://gravatar.com/avatar/e360e0501d74b0de5be9250474951354'
bio: "Michiel Brinkman is a Solutions Architect working for Rackspace from
Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Multi-cloud certified with a strong engineering
background."

Carbone, Denise
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/621ec460934803c15e9b2c4ff6cbf75f'
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Carter, Nikki
authorAvatar: 'https://gravatar.com/avatar/3177b82ffcbe59f1f3e6e155d3c94e7a'
bio: "Nikki Carter is a Content Strategist on the Digital Marketing Services
Team at RelationEdge. She has extensive experience creating and editing content
and marketing assets for a variety of verticals, including healthcare, technology,
and wellness. Nikki is passionate about freedom, telling the truth, and supporting
other women/non-binary folks of color."

Chauhan, Dushyant
authorAvatar: 'https://gravatar.com/avatar/1817fa128828e2dbdd87e8e713a0cac0'
bio: "As a Racker, I am having a good experience as Oracle APPS DBA and
exploring new technology."

Colbert, Charlotte
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Cortez, Teresa
authorAvatar: 'https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/889f88c8dacf485d4c00f7c6fcfd51f8'
bio: "Teresa Cortez is a Product Manager working with Dynamics 365 from Microsoft.
Formerly she implemented Dynamics 365 Business Central as a Senior Consultant
and has been implementing Microsoft ERP solutions for the past five years. Her
passion to learn continuously and to provide customers with enhanced business
process solutions, which is what guided her to the technology services industry.
Teresa holds a Business-Economics degree from the University of San Diego, and
a Master of Business Administration degree from California State University, San
Marcos. She also formerly served as the Vice President of Stella’s Kids Association,
a non-profit organization. In her free time, Teresa enjoys camping (or better yet,
glamping) at the beach or the sand dunes with her family."

Croce, Steve
authorAvatar: 'https://gravatar.com/avatar/56d03e2d0f853cff39c129cab3761d49'
bio: "As Senior Product Manager for the ObjectRocket Database-as-a-Service
offering and Head of User Experience for ObjectRocket, Steve oversees the
day-to-day planning, development, and optimization of ObjectRocket-supported
database technologies, clouds, and features. A product manager by day, he still
likes to embrace his engineer roots by night and develop with Elasticsearch,
SQL, Kubernetes, and web application stacks. He's spoken at
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, OpenStack summit, Percona Live, and various Rackspace
events."

Croteau, Paul
authorAvatar: 'https://en.gravatar.com/userimage/1316548/544d0908ada5d93056e89afc7d240c23.png?size=200'
bio: "Paul Croteau is the Channel CTO at Rackspace, where he works with partners
to enable their understanding of technology, the Rackspace portfolio, and the
state of the industry. With more than 25 years of information technology
experience including roles in engineering, sales, account management, and
technical training, Paul’s experience helps him relate with partners and
customers at all levels within an organization. His energy and passion for
technology have been helpful in creating successful sales engagements and
exceptional customer experiences with partners of all sizes. Paul originally
joined Rackspace in 2005. Previous employers include AT&T, HP, and Accenture.
Paul is based in San Antonio, Texas. Outside of work, Paul is a professional
musician and composer and is married with two teenagers and a house full of pets."

Crumpler, Shaun
authorAvatar: 'https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c26423ec960c158dbdbcbee1f61ea7b5'
bio: "Shaun Crumpler is a 7 year Racker, who focuses on applying his MBA to the
technical space to evolve and transform processes, promoting change and agility.
His technical expertise spans Linux operating systems, the Rackspace Public
Cloud infrastructure, and the AWS infrastructure.  He was awarded the Fanatical
Jacket, Rackspace’s highest honor, because of the focus that he places on
fanatically supporting not only external customers, but internal customers as well."

Dhiman, Vivek
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/d29da50d9ece9c12e208afaa0de68cd5'
bio: "I've been a Racker for eight years and have 13+ years of Oracle DBA
experience. Currently, I work on Oracle, MongoDB, and other NoSQL databases."

Dihingra, Sundeep
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/48fed1de86eefae0457dffea1b4bcf64'
bio: "Working as a Senior DBA for the last 15 years, Sundeep has solid expertise
in almost all Oracle-related products, services, and issues."

Dixit, Narendra
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/2ea19c113ac5dd7ab4879607f1468950'
bio: "Narendra is a passionate Oracle-technologies explorer with rich technical
experience covering fourteen years in Oracle Technologies. These include Oracle
Applications, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Database administration, Oracle
Fusion Middleware, Oracle SOA Suite administration and integration with Oracle
Applications, Oracle Demantra administration and integration with Oracle ASCP,
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and Oracle DBaaS administration."

Engle, Joe
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Evans, Chris
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bio: "Chris Evans is a Senior Cybersecurity Architect with a desire for securing
environments. In his current role at Rackspace, he architects the managed
security operations, ensuring Rackspace’s customers are secured now and prepared
for the future. Chris has more than 13 years’ experience dealing with IT,
network engineering, security operations, security architecture, and management
of technical teams and capabilities. Chris spent 10 years in the military,
defending networks from Advanced Persistent Threats, and has managed security
operations teams across all levels. You can follow Chris on LinkedIn at
linkedin.com/in/Christopher-a-evans."

Friedman, Jordan
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Garratt, Nick
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/749cf70eafe03795015019c1047be85f'
bio: "Nick Garratt is a Principal Architect in the Rackspace Managed Public
Clouds Product Architecture Team."

Gates, Jason
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Gembali, Balaganesh
authorAvatar: 'https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ce5ceb1aa8757ef235ddaa21265863eb'
bio: "I am a Software Techie by profession. I've been an Oracle Database
Administrator since I began my career and worked for top IT companies. I have
14 years of IT experience and currently work for Rackspace as a Senior Oracle
Apps DBA. I am passionate about electronic gadgets, travelling, exploring, and
tasting delicious food."

Greguska, Kari
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Gupta, Nihar
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bio: "Nihar Gupta, Director of Data Solutions. With over 10 years of experience
working with high-growth SaaS/Tech companies, Nihar has helped companies achieve
their growth objectives through product management, strategic partnerships,
corporate development efforts, and executing cross-functional strategic initiatives.
At Rackspace, Nihar played an integral role in crafting the company's database
strategy following the ObjectRocket acquisition through a build/buy/partner
framework for approaching new database markets.  Since then, he has been on the
ObjectRocket leadership team focused on product management and executing critical
partnerships that underpin 70%+ of ObjectRocket revenue and hasmost recently been
focused on building out Rackspace's Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
(AI/ML) solution. With a significant breadth of experience across strategy,
finance, product, sales and marketing, Nihar currently serves as the executive
leader for Rackspace Data Solutions.Prior to Rackspace, Nihar spent 4 years at
Deloitte Consulting and led high performing teams as a Management Consulting
Manager.  Nihar has an MBA of University of Texas-Austin and a bachelor’s degree
from UC-Berkeley in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science."

Gupta, Praveen
authorAvatar: 'https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9b15aeb3fffbd8eb9f6040435c24cc21'
bio: "I've been a Racker for nine years and have 10+ years of Oracle DBA experience.
Currently, I work on Oracle, MongoDB, and other NoSQL databases."

Hawthorn, Rob
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Hersh, Emilie
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Heywood, Celia
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Hornbeck, Ash
authorAvatar: https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f96915d3f29e5623f9a9ff8c7cb3148f'
bio: "Ash Hornbeck is a Sr. Product Architect on the Rackspace Managed Public
Clouds Product Architecture Team."

Johnson, Derek
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/19e8fe9c0b86b792f8065cad11364cf7'
bio: "An accomplished product development fanatic with an emphasis on execution,
Derek has significant product management, product marketing, and program management
experience across a broad range of industries with a track record for growing
businesses and product lines from the ground up. Under Derek’s management, the
ObjectRocket MongoDB and Redis offering grew extensively. In 2019, Derek took
over developing the Rackspace DBA Services offering to flesh out the capabilities
while working side by side with sales stakeholders, solutions architects, customer
success managers, and service delivery engineers."

Kalkhundiya, Kailash
authorAvatar: 'https://gravatar.com/avatar/36ea6795bf5e6bfc103f34a38a303060'
bio: "I'm an Oracle DBA with experience on the different flavors of Oracle RDBMS.
I'm also certified on the AWS cloud platform and PostgreSQL. I am passionate
about learning new things in different RDBMS environments and about Python, as
a programing language."

Kaminski, Brooks
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bio: n/a

King, Brian
authorAvatar: 'https://gravatar.com/avatar/f1f1a0738d42c8fa0a92ccded0fe4c97'
bio: "A Racker since 2011, Brian specializes in Openstack, virtualization, and
IaaS. When not working, he enjoys electric guitars, pinball, and karaoke."

Kolb, Dan
authorAvatar: 'https://gravatar.com/avatar/fbdcdc8fcc8d2ae995d763dc6ed144d4'
bio: "Dan Kolb is a Software Developer in Test in the Rackspace Private Cloud
Powered by VMware. Dan spends his time improving products and services through
his passion and evangelization of automation and open source software."

Krawczynski, David
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/99399c9f2a456f6f1be216d6ddde8b11'
bio: "Finding a balance for family, old cars, and IT while living by my mantra
that 'luck is equal parts strength and spirit'!"

Krpan, Janice
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/7662b14a4b4ce42f1a0775b2a93634c4'
bio: n/a

Kukreja, Sharad
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/3533f66c2c0826e45a3cf9b8c64ef617'
bio: n/a

Kumar, Anil
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/3f1352f21438061d35ff20470433f3da'
bio: n/a

Kumar, Binit
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/fa095e4b2e5de083e30a714448e71451'
bio: "Accomplished Database Consultant with years of in-depth knowledge and
experience in building and administering business solutions based on Oracle and
NoSQL (MongoDB, Couchbase and Cassandra) database engines and technologies."

Kumar, Gourav
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/ea51707a4a182959177d9b8244835571'
bio: "An Azure professional, blog writer, and community contributor with a soft
corner of PowerShell. I'm learning Terraform and travelling my road to be on top."

Kumar, Manish
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/7f73ff8ddbc33505beb7a14033611a06'
bio: "I've been a Racker for three years and have 14+ years of Oracle DBA
experience. Currently, I work on Oracle, MongoDB, and other NoSQL databases."

Lara, Roman
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/e9ef88c66315a7f955c4352a7ad2182a'
bio: "Roman Lara is a Senior Engineer on the Rackspace specialized DDoS Response
Team and has been a Racker in various roles since 2009. He is responsible for
driving the design, build, and maintenance of Rackspace DDoS Mitigation
infrastructure and services. Roman is a high-energy, hands-on leader whose
knowledge and experience of threat trends helps develop and create powerful
mitigation strategies through Fanatical Support."

Mahajan, Mithun
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/c109845839f4934583f4a5438b463064'
bio: "Hi There ! I’m Mithun, a passionate Oracle Database Administrator working
with Rackspace. I get excited to get into database-related challenges and work
on then till they're resolved. When I'm free, I like watching movies, gardening,
and playing video games. Join me as I learn, as I connect, and as I find DBA
solutions."

Mattson, Josh
authorAvatar: 'http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/791617263c70278859e1b26c15d13eab'
bio: n/a

Messerli, Antony
authorAvatar: 'https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/53b5341ace963caa36117f64a3353185'
bio: "Antony Messerli is a Principal Engineer at Rackspace who heads up the
Global Infrastructure Engineering team responsible for hardware development and
engineering.  He is a 17 year Racker with a background in hardware development,
software engineering, and building large scale IaaS clouds."

Mick, Jason
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bio: "I have been with Rackspace Global Infrastructure Engineering for 9 years.
During my tenure I have focused on the design and development of compute platforms
that optimize scale and cost for Rackspace customers. Leveraging strong partner
relationships, I also lead the majority of our future hardware technology
investigations."

Mishra, Manoj
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/9498305cda9dc4fe9d8f5873b09ff1e2'
bio: n/a

Moussa, Michael
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/81ae346c8dd994251b697bea342c8fd7'
bio: "As a Senior Product Architect at Rackspace, Michael draws upon his 20
years of web application development experience to help architect highly-available,
fault-tolerant, scalable, and secure AWS environments composed of a wide range
of services in the AWS portfolio, including Compute, Storage, Database,
Networking, Developer Tools, and more. He is an AWS APN Ambassador and holds
several AWS certifications. In his spare time, he enjoys homebrewing his
award-winning beer, cycling, and trying to find less expensive hobbies."

Olivier, Sarah
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/17c40729ddeea22c93734e4d0870fb85'
bio: n/a

Pandey, Amit kumar
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/c6bddf3d409b0e1975d01962a7317e2b'
bio: n/a

Peterson, Taylor
authorAvatar: ''
bio: n/a

Piva, Lauren
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/bbd32264e5b49be8f1515f6a64b1f1e2'
bio: n/a

Plummer, Adam
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/c2945c57e1812f8b455101e1a2e49cac'
bio: "I am continually energized by the increasing importance and relevance of
technology's place in solving business challenges. My mission is to uncover
opportunities to help companies realize true business transformation, with
technology as a key catalyst."

Ranganathan, Nirmal
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/152da1a0a80d81265a5cd1b40e16d465'
bio: "Nirmal is a Principal Architect and Product Manager at Rackspace
responsible for building Rackspace's Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence
and Machine Learning solutions as part of our Data Services portfolio. Nirmal
works closely with our Alliances, Partners, and Customers to create the most
effective and efficient analytics and machine learning solutions to enable our
customers to focus on driving a data driven culture within their organizations
and become leaders in their respective segments. Before this, Nirmal was a
consultant in our Professional Services organization and provided recommendations
and solutions for a wide variety of industry verticals around large scale databases
and data processing, data analytics, and data warehousing in the cloud and machine
learning/artificial intelligence. Nirmal has a strong background in cloud and
distributed systems, having contributed to various open-source projects from
Cassandra to OpenStack."

Rathod, Sunil
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/c3a915969820000d5dc4fc4f04ad8276'
bio: "I enjoy working as Oracle Apps DBA with more than 12 years of experience
in various Oracle technologies."

Ross, John
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/1e38fb66f5cebe18724102a37f3e1caf'
bio: "John Ross is a Senior Product Manager at Rackspace for SAP Solutions and
Services. He has more than 20 years of experience in technology working with a
wide variety of customers across multiple industries. John is based in Orlando,
Florida. Follow him on Twitter at **@johnrossjr**."

Rozin, Maxim
authorAvatar: ''
bio: "Maxim Rozin is a Principal Engineer and a Product Manager at Rackspace,
where he has worked since 2009. He spent the last 18 years in IT and holds all
five of the Associate and Professional-level AWS certifications. When he is not
at work, Maxim is likely snowboarding or hiking in the Alps."

Rudley, Jimmy
authorAvatar: 'https://en.gravatar.com/userimage/151177997/5bed7e07ee47533cbd34b951d463bcb7.jpg'
bio: “Jimmy Rudley is an Azure Architect at Rackspace and an active member of
the Azure community. He focuses on solving large and complex architecture and
automation problems within Azure."

Sharma, Anubhav
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/3ea62cab3c36ad848af5e53cf7610516'
bio: "I’m Anubhav, an Oracle Database Administrator working with Rackspace.
Currently, I work on Oracle, MongoDB, and other NoSQL database technologies."

Sharma, Hemant
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/62a512ada4789514ddecc061e501be64'
bio: "I am a Sr. Database Administrator with many years of experience as DBA in
the IT industry. I share my knowledge about latest database technologies via my
blog in a simple and effective way."

Sharma, Ravi kant
authorAvatar: 'http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/c7776b42759c729500163fc6588221ac'
bio: "I am ambitious and driven. I thrive on challenge and constantly set goals
for myself, so I have something to strive toward. I’m not comfortable with
settling, and I’m always looking for an opportunity to do better and achieve
greatness."

Singh, Kanwerjeet
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/f73f72ee82679fc3d9e52f277a83e410'
bio: "Hey, I’m Kanwer: Oracle DBA and always looking to explore new database technologies."

Singh, Manoj
authorAvatar: 'https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C5103AQE6tfHUm-whiw/profile-displayphoto-shrink_200_200/0?e=1593043200&v=beta&t=OPNBn8Pl4CYK6aqbqvXaTWs7n5TXPAglIB__-P4CuFk'
bio: "I have over ten years of  IT experience in Apps DBA, Core DBA, Cloud DBA,
Database Architect, and middleware as a IT Consultant. I'm also experienced in
cloud architecture analysis, migration planning, and migration execution. My
proven effectiveness in building good client interaction and partnering with
senior business leaders serve me well, as do my excellent facilitation skills
in conducting walkthroughs, brainstorming sessions, and core team meetings. I'm
an OCI-certified cloud DBA with expertise in Oracle Database 9i, 10g, 11g,12c
and Oracle E-Business Suite 11i ,R12&R12.2. I also have extensive experience in
release and change management, project management, and IT infrastructure."

Smith, Andy
authorAvatar: n/a
bio: "Andy Smith has been with Rackspace since 2018 and is currently the Senior
Product Manager for Rackspace’s Managed VMware Cloud on AWS solutions. Andy
brings more than 20 years’ experience working in IT and for IT solutions
companies, and has spent the last decade helping customers deploy and get the
most out of private and hybrid cloud solutions. When not working, Andy enjoys
hiking, skiing, and playing and watching hockey."

Srivastava, Deepanker
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/305aead3fa98ed419b5b47b2f6c9b780'
bio: n/a

Stoyka, Matt
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/d08dd094c720fa0e4689178952959231'
bio: n/a

Stubbs, Walter
authorAvatar: 'https://0.gravatar.com/avatar/82a7a0dd2ccc5b707da699191be87ecf'
bio: "Walter Stubbs is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate, and one of
the Lead Email Technicians in Cloud Office. Walter joined Rackspace in 2018 and
has been supporting the Office 365 environment from day one. His passion for
helping others combined with his knowledge of Office 365 helps him provide a
Fanatical Experience for Rackspace customers everyday."

Tharmarajah, Nilojan
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/685794a71af4ba6a72bb679304669e9a'
bio: "I am a Specialist Solutions Architect at Rackspace. In my younger days, I earned a degree in
Information Systems from City University, London, United Kingdom. I have close to 15 years of technical
IT experience in various industries, from maintaining data centers for multiple companies to deploying
cloud infrastructure for a global media company. With my experience, I now help companies from various
industries develop solutions for their environment in the cloud and act as a sounding board to advise
customers on their technical challenges."

Toews, Everett
authorAvatar: 'https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/c1a75adb52f40016a480cee292527895'
bio: “Everett Toews a Developer Advocate at Rackspace making the cloud easy to
use for developers and operators. Sometimes dev, sometimes ops, and sometimes
advocate. He's interested in composing systems using APIs, SDKs, CLIs, and
Docker. He likes to teach what he learns along the way.”


Vats, Nagendra
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/2d0745dbb9f09137658e8c05b7fec824'
bio: "I am an IT professional with keen interest in Data Science and reporting.
Love to Drive, listen music and follow Cricket."

Verma, Vivek
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/ea77be7be4ebf7aed353087f677104be'
bio: "I'm a consultant working on Oracle E-Business Suite and related products.
As an Amazon Cloud Solutions Architect Associate, I am passionate about the
Cloud Platform. Python and Chef are works in progress."

Whitehead, Chris
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/286b19b54ad30b4f0d25a4ac679744a8'
bio: n/a

Wiese, Joe
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/0efd04b476144df76914f2eb1fbf86de'
bio: "I have been developing server solutions for Rackspace and our customers
since 2006. I began my time at Rackspace in our original data center in downtown
San Antonio in 2004. I also spent six years in the US Navy, where I worked on
the most advanced weapons system in the Navy at that time."

Wilensky, Jeff
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/017eaa68c10c8d1b95aacf7d34557a28'
bio: n/a

Winfrey, Lorenzo
authorAvatar: 'https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/4946b45863e87d1a876eeb2873af2593'
bio: "As Product Manager for Rackspace’s Government Solutions (RGS), Lorenzo D.
Winfrey is responsible for multiple areas including product vision and strategy,
roadmap development, and branding for the RGS portfolio. Lorenzo’s leadership
objective is to ensure all our solutions have a customer focus and are built
to the highest quality while aggressively pursuing integration of new value added
technology. Prior to joining Rackspace in April 2019, Lorenzo was Chief of
Architecture and Standards for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) where he
managed a portfolio of over $50 million in annual operating budget. Lorenzo’s
extensive career in information technology includes leading DIA’s AWS Cloud
Broker Team, managing the operations of the Microsoft System Center Configuration
Manager enterprise solution, and pioneering the development and deployment of
the agency’s first cloud native, web based application to track near real time
cloud spend, utilization and schedule. While serving at DIA, Lorenzo was awarded
the Award for Exceptional Civilian Service, the agency's highest civilian award,
which recognizes excellence, initiative and outstanding contributions over a
period of several years. Lorenzo brings to Rackspace a compelling combination
of technical expertise and strategic leadership experience. He firmly believes
that leadership is a discipline that should be studied and practiced. Lorenzo
has become known for sharing his reading lists with all who will listen. He
enjoys creating content, reading and the occasional video game. Hailing from
Augusta, Georgia, Lorenzo now lives in Waldorf, Maryland with his family. He
holds a Bachelor’s of Science from Claflin University. Lorenzo is based in the
company’s Reston, Virginia office."

Xin, Michael
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bio: "Michael Xin is a senior QE/Security manager in Rackspace. He is leading
VMware QE team and QE Security team. Michael is passionate about quality and
security for Rackspace products. Michael has years of experience in application
security, security SDLC, test automation, cloud computing, agile development
and CI/CD."

Zullo, Chris
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bio: "Boston born and bred sports geek with a twist. Unabashed sports nut and
technology enthusiast. Living in the cloud literally and figuratively as a
SaaS (Software as a Service) advocate who wants to see as much of the world in
person as manageable."