Cloud Foundry Open Tour

Patrick Chanezon joined VMware in 2011, to create the developer relations team, and make VMware the first choice of developers moving their apps to the cloud. Previously, he worked at Google where he managed the Cloud and Tools Developer Relations team, Sun Microsystems where he worked as a software architect on the Sun Portal Server, AOL and Netscape where he managed the MyNetscape Portal, and Accenture where he was a Lotus Notes guru. He has also been a Developer Advocate, building and growing developer ecosystems for HTML5, OpenSocial, Google Checkout and the AdWords API, and he co-created the ROME open source project and the OSSGTP group in France. Patrick received a M.S. in computer science from Ecole Centrale de Lyon.
Twitter: @chanezon

Rajdeep Dua is the Director of Developer Relations for VMware India. His area of focus is advocating Cloud Foundry to developers in India. Before joining VMware he led the developer relations team for Google India for 5 years and was focused on Android and Google App Engine advocacy. He has around 14 years of experience in platform evangelism and software product development. Before joining Google, he led development efforts for a middleware product for Microsoft India. He has also been associated with open source projects like Android CTS, JBoss and Joram. Rajdeep holds an MBA from IIM Lucknow, India and a Bachelors in Engineering from Thapar Institute Patiala, India.
Twitter: @rajdeepdua

Ihab El-Alami is a Senior Process Expert and has been with Intalio for over 5 years. He helps customers all across Europe and the Middle East design and implement their SOA and BPM architectures around Intalio|BPMS and Intalio|Create. He serves as a product manager for process and BPM-related functions within these two products. He has served as a trainer in the Intalio|Create Beta program and is an author of Create eLearning material. Ihab graduated from Ecole Supérieure des Mines De Nancy in France.

Josh Long is the Spring developer advocate. Josh is the lead author on Apress’ Spring Recipes, 2nd Edition, O'Reilly's "Getting Started with Spring Roo," and Manning's "Cloud Foundry in Action." and a SpringSource committer and contributor. When he's not hacking on code for (Spring Integration, Spring Batch, Spring MVC, Activiti, and much more), he can be found at the local Java User Group or at the local coffee shop. Josh has been a speaker at numerous conferences, worldwide, including JFokus, JAX, SpringOne2GX, OSCON, JavaZone, Geecon, Java2Days, Vaadin and Mongo Dev Days, and numerous others. Josh likes solutions that push the boundaries of the technologies that enable them. His interests include scalability, BPM, grid processing, mobile computing and so-called "smart" systems. He blogs at springsource.org, blog.springsource.org or joshlong.com.
Twitter: @starbuxman

Niranjan Maka heads the engineering site for VMware India R&D, as their Managing Site Director. With over 23 years of experience in the technology products & services industry, Niranjan Maka was last heading Bangalore Development centre of RSA (the Security Division of EMC) and was part of the EMC CoE. Having started his career with TCS, he held various engineering and management positions and was their Regional Manager at Dallas/Houston prior to turning entrepreneur. He has held senior techno-management roles with Siebel Systems Inc in San Mateo and was instrumental in setting up their core engineering group in Bangalore. He has been with other start-ups such as WebMD. He holds a Masters in Electrical Engineering from IIT-Madras.

Hugues Malphettes is a Senior Software Architect and has been with Intalio for over 11 years. He has led the development of the Intalio|BPMS Designer and a variety of other technology areas within the product. Hugues is currently the architect and lead developer for the packaging and deployment of Intalio|Create on Cloud Foundry. Hugues is a committer to the Jetty project. He currently resides in Singapore, after over 10 years in Silicon Valley. Hugues graduated from Ecole Centrale de Lyon in France.

Janakiram MSV is the Principal Consultant of Janakiram & Associates. Through his speaking, writing and consulting, he helps businesses take advantage of emerging technologies. Founder and driving force of an initiative called GetCloudReady.com, he enables Architects, Developers and IT Professionals to be ready for the Cloud. He is the Chief Editor of a popular portal on the Cloud called CloudStory in which he analyzes the latest trends in the world of Cloud Computing. Janakiram has worked at companies including Microsoft Corporation, Amazon Web Services and Alcatel-Lucent. His last role was with Amazon Web Services as a Technology Evangelist. Prior to that, Janakiram spent 10 years at Microsoft where he was involved in evangelizing the Microsoft Application Platform and Tools.
Twitter: @janakiramm

Raja Rao DV has spent most of his decade long career as an engineer and developer advocate for VMware Zimbra. As part of Zimbra, his main role was to promote, engineer and maintain Zimbra's extension framework called Zimlets. Along the way he ended up writing 100+ Zimlets and trained several large Zimbra customers like Comcast, Telus(Canada), BigLobe(Japan) etc on how to extend Zimbra. He currently works as developer advocate for Cloud Foundry and is responsible for working with developers and partners to enhance the platform.
Twitter: @rajaraodv

Chris Richardson is a developer and architect with over 20 years of experience. He is a Java Champion and the author of POJOs in Action, which describes how to build enterprise Java applications with POJOs and frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate. Chris is the founder of CloudFoundry.com and works on cloud technology. He has a computer science degree from the University of Cambridge in England and lives in Oakland, CA with his wife and three children.
Twitter: @crichardson