Stephen Walli
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Presentations
Principal Program Manager, Azure Office of the CTO
Microsoft
Stephen is a principal program manager in the Azure Office of the CTO at Microsoft. Prior to that, he has been a distinguished technologist (HPE), technical executive, a founder, a consultant, a writer, an international business person, a systems developer, a software construction geek, and a standards diplomat. He loves to build teams and products that make customers ecstatic. He has worked in the IT industry since 1980 as both customer and vendor, working with open source for almost 30 years. He tweets as @stephenrwalli. He blogs at "Once More unto the Breach", opensource.com, and Medium.