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Michele Pilgrim Brings an Engineer’s Eye to Marketing the Cloud
After years marketing virtualization, analytics and data platforms, Michele Pilgrim has arrived at Pulumi with a thesis that feels unusually personal: cloud infrastructure should be treated like software, and explained with the same precision.
Austen Collins Made the Cloud Feel Like a Product
He came to infrastructure through motion graphics, named a framework after a shark movie, and spent a decade turning cloud complexity into a developer experience. Now Austen Collins is applying the same instinct to personal AI tools.
Steve Corndell
Steve Corndell is the CEO of env0, a Boston-based infrastructure-as-code management platform. A career sales leader, he spent roughly a decade at Turbonomic climbing from Senior Channel Manager to Chief Revenue Officer, helping steer the company to a $2 billion acquisition by IBM in 2021. He joined env0 as COO in January 2024 and was unanimously promoted to CEO by the board in May 2025, taking the top job from co-founder Ohad Maislish and assembling a new enterprise-focused leadership team.
David Bild
David Bild is a technical co-founder and engineering leader at Resourcely, the cloud-security startup acquired by Anysphere (maker of Cursor) in July 2025. A Ph.D. computer engineer who once designed censorship-resistant networks, he has spent his career turning gnarly security problems into guardrails developers actually want to use - from overlay networking for IoT at Xaptum to secure-by-design Terraform blueprints at Resourcely. Post-acquisition he works on Fraim, an open-source, genAI-based application- and cloud-security tool. He builds from a cabin-adjacent base in Southwest Harbor, Maine, on the doorstep of Acadia.
Lucas Roh
Lucas Roh is a serial entrepreneur and computer scientist who founded and runs MetalSoft, a Chicago-based startup whose software automates bare metal data centers - turning racks of multi-vendor switches, servers, and storage into cloud-like, on-demand infrastructure. A former Argonne National Laboratory researcher in automatic differentiation, he built the global web host Hostway (1998-2013), launched the big data cloud Bigstep, and spun MetalSoft out of Hostway's internal tooling in 2019. In December 2022 MetalSoft raised a $16 million Series A led by DNS Capital.
Venkat Thiruvengadam
Venkat Thiruvengadam is the founder and CEO of DuploCloud, a no-code/low-code DevSecOps platform headquartered in San Jose, California. A founding member of Microsoft Azure's networking team, he wrote core parts of Azure's compute and network controller stack before building DuploCloud to bring hyperscale cloud automation - previously available only to giants like AWS and Microsoft - to mainstream enterprises. Under his leadership, DuploCloud has raised $52M in total funding (including a $32M Series B in 2023), grown ARR by 700% since 2021, and serves 100+ customers across healthcare, fintech, and enterprise software.
Jesse Robbins
Jesse Robbins is General Partner at Heavybit, the San Francisco-based venture firm focused exclusively on developer-first companies. He co-founded Chef (sold to Progress Software for $200M+), invented GameDay chaos engineering at Amazon where he held the title 'Master of Disaster', and co-created the O'Reilly Velocity Conference that seeded the global DevOps movement. A former volunteer firefighter and EMT, he brings a crisis-responder's instincts to early-stage investing, backing companies like Snyk, PagerDuty, Fastly, LaunchDarkly, and Tailscale. His portfolio spans 60+ companies with five IPOs.
Vasu Maganti
Vasu Maganti is the founder and CEO of Zelar (formerly Zelarsoft), a Google Cloud Premier Partner and cloud-native consulting firm headquartered in San Francisco. Since founding the company in 2018, he has built it into an ~180-person, $26.6M-revenue enterprise serving Fortune 500 companies, major banks, telcos, and federal governments across North America and APAC. Zelar was named Google Cloud Activation Partner of the Year - JAPAC 2025 and Google Cloud Partner All-Star in Artificial Intelligence 2024 under his leadership. Maganti co-organizes Silicon Valley's cloud-native meetup community and is a vocal advocate for Kubernetes multi-tenancy, GitOps, zero-trust security, and FinOps practices.
Adam Jacob
Adam Jacob is the co-founder of Chef (the infrastructure automation company acquired for $220M) and current CEO of System Initiative, a next-generation DevOps platform using digital twins to visually model and simulate infrastructure. A self-taught systems engineer who ran ISPs as a teenager and built automated infrastructure for 15 startups before co-founding Opscode/Chef in 2008, Jacob created the Chef, InSpec, and Habitat open-source tools that helped define the DevOps movement. Today he advocates for rebuilding DevOps from the ground up, arguing that tooling and culture must evolve together - and that Infrastructure as Code, as practiced, is still broken.
Yevgeniy Brikman
Yevgeniy 'Jim' Brikman is the co-founder of Gruntwork and one of the most influential voices in infrastructure-as-code. Author of three O'Reilly books — 'Terraform: Up & Running' (now in its 3rd edition), 'Hello, Startup', and 'Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery' (2025) — he has spent 15+ years building infrastructure that served hundreds of millions of users at LinkedIn, TripAdvisor, Cisco Systems, and Thomson Financial. At Gruntwork, he helped pioneer the idea of treating infrastructure like software: testable, reusable, and versioned.