ryan sweet

Early Internet provider, worked in multiple areas, including operations process and in developing client-side TCP/IP stack integrations for Macintosh and Windows.

* Defined the strategy, product, and roadmap for VMware's Cloud Platform API's, CLIs (including PowerCLI), and Extensibility mechanisms for the Software Defined Datacenter * Product leadership role in shipping four versions of vSphere/ESX (>500,000 customers), * Expanded vSphere API ecosystem from $15b to > $60b * Led creation of new culture/processes around API Stewardship and governance * Delivered a modern REST API and extensibility architecture into vSphere/SDDC, along with native language SDKs and command line tools

* Product leadership role in defining and shipping three versions of vCloud Director (multi-tenant cloud platform) * Added several features to vCloud Director API that simplified development – allowing integrations to reduce their code by up to 70% * Delivered API extensibility mechanism and integration bus, enabling ecosystem expansion * Grew vCloud Director API ecosystem from 8 partners to >1000 in 18 months

* Our EMC division was acquired by VMware) * SaaS product definition and architecture for application management tooling, led design programs with early-adopters * Directed research into problems of fault tolerant application management infrastructures at cloud scale * Built services covering problems of consensus, resource scheduling, constraint management, distributed desired state configuration, and multi-cloud infrastructure drivers for deployment to AWS or VMware

Advised Fortune 500 customers, implemented networked computing solutions in data centers across the country at companies like Ford, Boeing, DaimlerChrysler, IBM, and Federal Express; Delivered advice to customers on systems integration, automation, network infrastructure, strategy, and planning; Designing, deploying and administering enterprise systems using UNIX/Linux (misc. Linux, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, IRIX, BSD) and Win32 (NT, 2000, Terminal Server, Citrix WinFrame); In 1998 I was assigned to NCD UK, where I worked on behalf of IBM at customer locations throughout the UK implementing NCD and IBM technologies and consulting. Authored IBM internal redbook on implementing terminal services with NCD technology.

EMC Cloud Infrastructure Division acquired SourceLabs in Dec. 2008 in-part on the basis of the work I had led in the SourceLabs cloud computing projects. Defined requirements for enterprise cloud computing services and products working with Fortune50 design partners. Co-led design of a prototype Cloud Application Management platform culminating in a keynote demo with the VMware CEO during EMCWorld 2009, leading to VMware acquisition of this team; Developed product vision and planning to grow the team rapidly across three product areas: Cloud Services (PaaS), Application Management, and Cloud Migration/On-ramp;

* Leading multiple teams in the architecture, design, and operations of distributed systems providing resiliency at global scale * design and implementation high velocity cloud-native development lifecycle and tooling * strategy and org design for Microsoft SRE

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