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

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

Ray O’Farrell joined VMware in 2003 and leads the company’s product engineering organization, bringing more than 20 years of engineering leadership. Among his many contributions to VMware, O’Farrell led the ESX storage team during the early development of ESX. Prior to VMware, O’Farrell held principal engineering and engineering director roles at Microtec/Mentor Graphics, Improv Systems, Ashling Microsystems, and Industrial and Scientific Imaging. O’Farrell holds a master’s degree in computer science and a bachelor of engineering degree in electronics from the University of Limerick.

Andy Piper is part of the VMware Developer Relations team, and works as a Developer Advocate for Cloud Foundry, the Open Source Platform-as-a-Service. He is probably best known online as a “social bridgebuilder” spanning a number of areas of technology and interest. He was previously with IBM Software Group for more than 10 years, as a consultant, strategist, and WebSphere Messaging Community Lead.
Twitter: @andypiper

Alvaro Videla works at VMware as a Developer Advocate for Cloud Foundry. Before moving to Europe, he used to work in Shanghai were he helped build one of Germany's biggest dating websites. He co-authored the book 'RabbitMQ in Action' for Manning Publishing. Some of his open source projects can be found at https://github.com/videlalvaro. Apart from code related stuff, he likes traveling with his wife, listening/playing music and reading books.
Twitter: @old_sound