François has more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry. He started his career as a developer and project manager for a large IT organization, then went on to co-found a UNIX VAR business in 1988. In 1994, after four years at KPMG's IT consulting practice in Paris, he joined Sun Microsystems' new professional services business unit in France, managing it from 1999 to 2002. He went on to create Mapics' professional services operations -- now part of Infor -- in EMEA. He joined JBoss in 2005 to launch its services and support activities in EMEA. After Red Hat's acquisition, he moved to Red Hat's headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina. From Raleigh, he managed worldwide support for JBoss, then launched Red Hat's worldwide partner support program for both the Linux and JBoss businesses. François is now based in Paris.

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Steve joined CloudBees in September 2011 to drive overall product development and product management. Steve came to CloudBees after more than 13 years leading Oracle's Java server development organization. He joined Oracle in 1998 to manage the team that delivered Java support natively, inside the Oracle database. Steve led Oracle's Java products and strategy from the inception of Java EE though the acquisitions of BEA and Sun Microsystems. Along the way, he helped to establish Java-based middleware as a major contributor to Oracle's product portfolio. Before Oracle, Steve served as vice president of engineering for ParcPlace-Digitalk after selling his Smalltalk-based startup, Polymorphic Software, to the company. Steve's professional journey from the early days of object-oriented programming, through different development paradigms, into the emergence of the Java platform and its adoption in the enterprise convinced him that the changes being brought about today with the cloud and PaaS will fundamentally impact software developers and enterprises. He joined CloudBees to be at the leading edge of those changes.

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André brings more than 20 years of experience in high technology marketing and communications to his role as vice president of marketing. He has experience in several enterprise software markets including application development tools, middleware, manufacturing and supply chain, enterprise search and software quality and testing tools. André has particular expertise in working with the executive teams of enterprise software companies to create unique competitive positioning, build pipeline and establish sustainable market leadership. Prior to joining CloudBees, he served as principal analyst serving technology marketers at Forrester Research. He has also held a number of senior management positions in marketing and communications with companies such as Segue Software, Hewlett-Packard, Unisys Corp. and Bluestone Software. André holds a BS from Eastern University.

Ryan has 12 years of development experience, most recently at Debix, JBoss and Red Hat. While serving as QA manager at JBoss, he and his team built one of the largest known Jenkins grids. Realizing his real passion was programming, Ryan returned to the trenches, but retained his commitment to software quality and automation. He lives in Austin, TX with his wife and two daughters.

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Nicolas De Loof has been a Java architect for 14 years, working for French IT services companies. Techno-addict and open source developer, he joined the Apache Maven team in 2007, where he focused on the Google Web Toolkit plugin. Having many contacts in the French Java community, in 2008 he launched a Java User Group in Rennes: the BreizhJUG. He has also spoken at many conferences about Maven and Software Factory, and actively supports the Java community.

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A Massachusetts native, Jesse Glick left the wild frontier of web marketing in 1998 (think Kraft Interactive Kitchen!) for Prague. There he soon began work at a tiny company making a Java IDE called NetBeans, then run by Roman Staněk, and weathered the acquisitions by Sun Microsystems and Oracle. Until joining CloudBees in 2012, Jesse worked on the IDE's core module system and its plugin tooling, the project system including its Ant and (later) Maven integrations and various other components. He also contributed to the project's own extensive build system and the migrations from StarTeam to (open source) CVS to Mercurial. Along the way he became an Ant committer and contributed to other key software including Maven and Mercurial and, of course...Jenkins, for which he was one of the early committers and developed the IDE integration. He co-authored an O'Reilly book on the NetBeans Platform and has spoken on related topics. He now lives again in the Boston area.

Cyrille is an elite architect at CloudBees with more than 12 years of experience in Java technologies. He came to CloudBees from Xebia where he was CTO and architect. Cyrille was an early adopter of the "You Build It, You Run It" model that he put in place for a number of high-volume websites. He naturally embraced the DevOps culture, as well as cloud computing. He has implemented both for his customers. Cyrille is very active in the Java community as the creator of the embedded-jmxtrans open source project and as a speaker at conferences.

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Michael is an open source polyglot developer. For his sins he spent time at JBoss, working on the Drools project, and then Red Hat, where he continually caused trouble on various projects. While at JBoss and Red Hat, he was active in speaking at various conferences and other engagements. His interest in the cloud is natural as he is attracted to disruptive technologies. Michael lives and works in the Blue Mountains, just outside Sydney, Australia, is married and has 2 kids and a poodle. He has no hobbies as his hobbies tend to turn into work anyway. "Find something you love doing, and then you will never work a day in your life again."

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Mark Prichard is our Java PaaS evangelist and senior director of product management at CloudBees. He came to CloudBees after 13 years at BEA Systems and Oracle, where he was product manager for WebLogic and built a reputation for deep expertise in Java and middleware. Before that, Mark spent 10 years working for leading systems integrators in the UK, such as Logica CMG, SHL Systemhouse and CSC Computer Sciences. Mark is a graduate of St John's College, Cambridge and the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory; he holds MA, BA, BSc and DipCompSci degrees. Mark now lives in California and is based at the CloudBees office in Los Altos.

Daya is a techno-enthusiast software developer with over 12 years of experience, who made a career shift from biotechnology some 14 years ago. Prior to engaging in software development, he published two research papers on drug delivery vehicles for cancer treatment. Today he loves Ruby and continues to play with Erlang, Clojure, Node.js and other wide-ranging technologies. In the last 12 years he has worked with several start-ups across the United States as well as Fortune 100 companies like HP and Waste Management. Prior to joining CloudBees, he was a Java and Ruby senior technical lead for SkyAuction.com, a travel company. Currently he is focused on GrandCentral - the web console for the CloudBees Platform and CloudBees Partner Ecosystem. When he has free time, he enjoys playing racquetball and listening to traditional Sufi music.

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Garrett was chief architect at Stax Networks, which merged with CloudBees in 2010. Garrett uses Erlang to build distributed, fault tolerant back-end systems. He has over twenty years of software development experience using languages like Java, Python, C/C++ and Erlang. He is the creator of Landshark, an Erlang-based web development toolkit that models Python's Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI) design. He has been working on an embeddable version of CouchDB for Erlang applications. Prior to that, Garrett was senior technical architect at Capgemini. Garrett concedes that MongoDB is scaled for the web, but thinks MySQL is still a viable option for many projects.

Corey is a native of Boston. He graduated magna cum laude in 2007 from Boston University. Corey has four years of selling experience within both corporate and government markets. Throughout his sales tenure, he has shown a consistent track record of achieving and exceeding his yearly sales quotas. Prior to CloudBees, Corey worked for both EBSCO Publishing and ebrary where he played an instrumental role in developing the corporate and government markets. Corey currently resides in Gloucester, Massachusetts. In his spare time, you will most likely find him in the mountains running with his dog, biking or climbing rocks.

Cindy brings 17 years of experience in business development to CloudBees. Her mission is to develop and enable the Cloudbees services partners worldwide, as they play an important role in CloudBees growth. Prior to CloudBees, Cindy worked as business development director Europe at System Performance Group, an IBM Tivoli partner that specialized in performance tuning solutions for JD Edwards applications. From 2006 till 2010, Cindy successfully enabled the channel at IBM Belux software group, creating the first IBM alliance with Oracle. Previously, she worked for Belgacom as a key account manager. Cindy is based in the CloudBees Brussels office, but lives in Everberg, near the woods, with her 12-year old daughter and two chihuahuas. Cindy is involved in volunteer activities for disabled children and she loves nature, meditation and coaching people. Her motto is to live in the now and live life to the fullest.

J.J. is a software engineer and entrepreneur who has started several companies over the past 15 years. In 1995, J.J. founded Allaire Corp. whose flagship offering, ColdFusion, was an early leader in the web application server market. Allaire Corp. was acquired by Macromedia in 2001. The next year, J.J. founded Onfolio to create software that helped users discover and publish information on the web. Onfolio was acquired by Microsoft in 2006 and its core product, Live Writer, is now the standard blogging tool shipped with Windows Live. In 2008, J.J. created the iPhone application Lose It! to help people more effectively track their daily food and exercise. Lose It! has been downloaded over 6 million times and was the top free iPhone health and fitness application in both 2009 and 2010. J.J. is currently working on a new company, RStudio, which is focused on providing tools and services for the R statistical computing environment.

Richard Friedman is currently vice president of engineering at MyYearbook.com, one of the top 20 websites in the United States, recently launching a real-time social gaming platform with live video chat. He was the creator and lead of the JBoss Operations Network at JBoss and product manager for Red Hat Network. Previous to JBoss, he served as a vice president/senior architect/development manager for JP Morgan Chase where he built an Enterprise Java system for credit card processing. He was the CTO for the HP Middleware Division, coming on-board with the Bluestone team in the late 1990s.