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Here there! We are the Riverbed Technical Evangelist team and this is our home on the web to share geeky tech bits with you. Allow us to introduce the team...
Our team is lead by Romain Jourdan. Romain is a Passionate Technologist with 16 years of experience. He is far from being perfect (he is French), but still, his technical prowess makes up for all of that! He is profoundly geeky and secretly in love with Alexa. Romain is skilled in the entire Riverbed portfolio. He kinda has to be since he runs the group. Romain's favorite quote is: “Failing to plan is planning to fail.”
Romain is based at Riverbed headquarters in San Francisco, Ca.
Paddy is a veteran in the networking industry and has worked for vendors such as Nokia, Cisco, Juniper, and Aryaka. He brings a lot of experience to the team with previous roles ranging from software developer to pre-sales/solution architect. Paddy started his career in the Networking Industry in 1998 working for Cisco as a developer. Later he went on to work with companies such as Auspex, Nokia, Juniper Networks, and Cortina. In 2009, he moved back to India and worked for Aryaka networks as a senior manager and later as a Principal Solutions Architect.
Paddy is based in Bangalore, India.
Saurabh has 9 years of experience in areas of Cloud Native Tools/Technologies, LTE (Long Term Evolution) and SDN/NFV. He has worked with Aricent to develop their LTE product and then moved to South Korea to develop and SDN Controller for a SDN startup company. In South Korea he gained expertise in the areas of Data Center networking, SDN, NFV, Customer Interaction, and the South Korean Language. After he moved back to India, he joined Riverbed as an Architect for Next Generation Platform where he proposed solutions to deploy platform and applications from a Cloud Native Perspective. He loves to travel, stay fit, learn music and new languages.
Saurabh is located in Bangalore, India.
Joe is a Senior Technical Evangelist here at Riverbed. He hates to admit this, but he started in technology prior to the invention of the World Wide Web! From Joe’s early days working as a Network Manager at DEC, (Digital Equipment Corporation for those too young to remember) through the Start-Up generation working at many Dot Coms as an SE, and surviving Y2K to our current day, his passion has always been understanding customers challenges then finding a “solution”. To free his brain you can find Joe blasting down black diamonds or dropping into chutes while backcountry skiing. When the snow melts it’s cycling or adventure riding on his KTM to faraway places. Another thing Joe realized after joining the Tech Evangelist group is “anything that goes wrong, it’s Joe’s fault” and he’s good with that!
Joe is based in New Hampshire
Gwen is an engineer at heart. He is passionate about Technology. Attending SharkFest makes him feel the same as it does his kids when he takes them to Disney. With a strong focus on Performance and Cloud, he takes a strong interest in designing, architecting, integrating and delivering technology solutions across the full IT stack. In this context, Gwen believes that understanding purpose and weighing out benefits vs. costs are paramount elements we should always consider. Before joining the Technical Evangelists Team, he successfully used the entire Riverbed Portfolio, both as Customer and Partner. With experience on many projects over the years, he was able to effectively leverage the full portfolio resulting in enhanced users’ digital experience.
Gwen is based in Switzerland.
Alex is a hand-on IT Architect with 20 + years of experience as an enterprise architect with focus on IT Analytics, APM and Dynamic Software Architectures. Before joining Riverbed, Alex worked as a Senior IT Architect At Gartner where he was responsible for IT Analytics and APM for the portfolio of internal applications. Alex’s recent experience includes discovery, visibility and RCA for Cloud-based and container-based applications using APM, NPM and IT Analytics toolset. In his spare time Alex enjoys classical music, skiing, and sailing.
Alex is based in Cambridge, MA.
Brandon is a highly technical content contributor and has been around the networking industry as a Tech Republic contributor, a several-time Tech Field Day delegate, as well as a guest of the Packet Pushers podcast and Network Collective podcast. He is a published author with a few books under the Cisco Press label, mostly in the area of security. He is an an uber-geek, and loves to ride dirt bikes (WR-250F) and BMX bikes (My 2013 Big Ripper is pretty sweet!) with his kids. He is proficient with SteelConnect, Steelhead SD, WANOP, Firewalls, and a bunch of Cisco stuff that may not matter anymore. He's spent the better part of his carrer as a Cisco Certified Instructor (CCSI), and no doubt that experience shows in the articles and videos he share here and elsewhere with the community.
Brandon holds the CCIE Security certification.
He is based in Temecula, California