STACK 2022 Developer Conference

Mr Chan Cheow Hoe is the Government Chief Digital Technology Officer (GCDTO) of the Smart Nation and Digital Government Office (SNDGO). He is also concurrently the Deputy Chief Executive of the Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech). As the GCDTO, Cheow Hoe oversees the development of the Government’s digital infrastructure and digital technology capability, as well as talent development in information and communication technology and smart systems (ICT&SS). He will also oversee the development of platforms to enable resource sharing and interoperability across Government,so as to drive the development and delivery of innovative government digital services for citizens and businesses. In his role as Deputy Chief Executive, GovTech, he oversees multi-disciplinary teams that develop and manage key government’s digital products such as the National Digital Identity.Cheow Hoe has more than two decades of extensive experience both in the public and private sectors, with a strong track record in leading digital transformation changes in organisations and the government. Prior to joining GovTech, Cheow Hoe held senior appointments in international banks and consulting companies in the areas of technology, operations, finance and business. Cheow Hoe graduated from the National University of Singapore, and obtained his masters from Wharton School.

Paul Tatum leads the Global Public Sector Solutions Engineering team, helping governments around the world modernise their businesses and missions using Salesforce leading PaaS and SaaS offerings. Paul is responsible for overall technical direction, architecture, and solutions based on Salesforce cloud services.

Paul brings over 30 years of experience working with Public Sector customers and provides technical and business executive insights in the areas of Cloud Computing, CRM, Case Management, Security, Integrated Platforms, AI/ML, Analytics, and IT trends in government. Paul has held Solutions Engineering leadership roles since 2000, always focusing on technical excellence and customer success.

Anthony leads the virtualisation teams within EC2 for public cloud and edge offerings. Anthony led the development of the Nitro System, Firecracker, and AWS Outposts. Prior to join AWS, Anthony led the Open Source QEMU VMM project.

Rebecca is CTO at Thoughtworks and is a scientist with a strong love of programming languages. Beyond her technical achievements, she is a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion in the industry, particularly increasing the number of women in coding and STEM. She has served on the boards of CodeChix and the Agile Alliance, is currently on the board of trustees of AnitaB.org and is an advisor to Women Who Code. She leads the Thoughtworks global technical staff with wisdom, a willingness to embrace new technologies, and a deep understanding of tech culture. She has also co-authored a number of books, including Domain-Specific Languages, The Thoughtworks Anthology, and Building Evolutionary Architectures.

Sid Sijbrandij is the Co-founder and CEO of GitLab Inc., the DevOps platform. GitLab’s single application helps organisations deliver software faster and more efficiently while strengthening security and compliance.

Sid’s career path is untraditional, from building recreational submarines to working at the Ministerie van Justitie en Veiligheid on the Legis project. A self-taught programmer, in 2012 he discovered GitLab and his passion for open source. Soon after, Sid commercialized GitLab and led the company through Y Combinator’s Winter 2015 batch. Under his leadership, GitLab has grown with an estimated 30 million+ registered users from startups to global enterprises.

As Corporate Vice President of Enterprise and Cloud, Paul Lorimer leads the engineering and operations teams in Microsoft 365 focused on both business growth and service quality for our enterprise customers. He is responsible for driving Microsoft 365 growth through international expansion, public sector offerings, and investments in enterprise targeted capabilities. In addition, Lorimer leads key areas within Microsoft 365 business including Exchange, Skype for Business and Consumer, the development of new productivity features for complex organizations, and Compliance and Privacy. Committed to ensuring customers experience the value of Microsoft products within their business, Lorimer also supports government and large enterprise customers as they transition to the cloud.

Sachin Gupta is the Vice President and General Manager of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) at Google Cloud. Having joined Google in 2020, Sachin brings together Product, Strategy, and UX across Cloud Compute, Storage, Networking, and Google Distributed Cloud businesses. His team is also responsible for global expansion, reliability infrastructure and Technical Infrastructure which serves the needs of all Google product areas.

Through a deep understanding of enterprise customers, Sachin has a 20+ year track record of building solid teams and creating innovative products and services. Before joining Google, Sachin worked at Cisco for 23 years, where he served as SVP of Product for Enterprise Networking. Within his teams, Sachin has been a long-time champion of customer focus and an inclusive team culture. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Purdue, a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from Wharton.

Matei Zaharia is a Cofounder and Chief Technologist at Databricks as well as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford. He started the Apache Spark project during his PhD at UC Berkeley in 2009, and has worked broadly on other widely used data and machine learning software, including MLflow, Delta Lake and Apache Mesos. He works on a wide variety of projects in data management and machine learning at Databricks and Stanford. Matei’s research was recognized through the 2014 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, an NSF CAREER Award, and the US Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

Ned Shawa leads the Solutions Engineering Team in Asia Pacific and Japan for HashiCorp, directly aligning with CIOs and CTOs in the Financial industry, the Technology sector and Governments advising on application modernisation, cloud adoption and multi-cloud strategies, with DevOps and DataOps and application delivery pipelines in the centre. Ned has over 15 years of experience in infrastructure and analytics – in his current role, he was the first employee for HashiCorp in the APJ region, leading the awareness of the challenges of multi-cloud and how to overcome them using infrastructure and cloud-agnostic platforms that address a long term challenge of provisioning, securing and interconnecting a multi-cloud and infrastructure environments. This allows a long term resilience and maximum agility for platform engineering teams and lays the foundation for modern application delivery and modern data centres.