Harmen van der Linde is a senior director at VMware’s Office of the CTO; he also leads the Cloud Data Platforms team. He is currently focused on projects at the intersection of data and cloud architectures, covering deployment automation, migration, and lifecycle management. Before VMware, Harmen was the director and global head of Citigroup’s Monitoring and Logging organization. In that role, he led several observability projects focused on Kubernetes monitoring, bridging the gap between application development and IT infrastructure operations. Harmen also held various leadership roles both Cisco and AT&T, where he focused on product management and network operations planning.
Cloud native deployment patterns for data platforms and solutions simplify deployment complexity and enable data platforms to be deployed in minutes instead of hours or days.
