CTO
"The entire system is event-driven. Everything is on the public cloud and the things that have very high availability requirements are on multiple public clouds. You’re not lifting and shifting some other person's nasty 1980s software. This is all brand new microservice-based software."
"We've seen 50% savings" versus Cosmos DB. "That's with fully managed MongoDB Atlas, with premium support..."
"We extensively use our virtual private cloud, and as need be, we can burst into public clouds"
identifying emerging dual-use technologies, drafting the technical Strategic Direction in consultation with allied stakeholders, and overseeing a team of technical experts
“Technology is starting to hungrily consume the world of intelligence and national security”
RDMS with separate Full-Text engine: Not a fast combination! It was time for a rethink -- and some help from Elastic
The World According to Gartner (with seasoning from The Stack and CTO friends)
'I’m against heavy-handed regulation because it blocks innovation"
"When we make this better with technology behind it, the brand will be right back [giving] an experience that our partners provide with some level of humanity"