Sanjeev Sharma is an internationally known DevOps, and Cloud Transformation thought leader, technology executive, and published author. Sanjeev’s industry experience includes tenures as CTO and Worldwide Technical Sales Leader, Cloud Architect  Leader and Acquisition Integration Technical Leader. As an IBM Distinguished Engineer, Sanjeev is recognized at the highest levels of IBM’s exclusive core of technical leaders.

Sanjeev provides core leadership to drive the adoption of cutting edge solutions, architectures and strategies for DevOps and Cloud. His experience as IBM’s Global CTO for DevOps Adoption, combined with his deeply insightful ability to understand both business and IT needs, drives a unique perspective for any business. This perspective allows Sanjeev to advise and mentor C-level and senior technical executives on executing DevOps and Cloud transformations, across industries and geographies.

Sanjeev also provides technical leadership to IBM’s Cloud Architect community, as they help clients across the globe make the transformation to Hybrid Cloud. Sanjeev has a Leadership role in the development of IBM’s next generation Reference Architectures published in the IBM Cloud Architecture Center.

Sanjeev is a published author of two books and a frequent speaker on the international tech scene as a Cloud and DevOps expert. He regularly published articles, blog posts and videos for leading tech publications such as Wired Insights, devops.com, DZONE, IBM DeveloperWorks, and his own blog at http://bit.ly/sdarchitect. Sanjeev tweets as @sd_architect.

Sanjeev has an Electrical Engineering degree from The National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India and a Masters in Computer Science from Villanova University, United States. He is passionate about his family, travel, reading, movies and Airline Miles.