# Wayne Ariola

> Wayne Ariola is ScyllaDB's chief marketing officer, a Los Angeles-based enterprise software executive whose career connects software testing, business risk and database infrastructure. Before joining ScyllaDB in 2021, he served as CMO and general manager of RPA at Tricentis and spent 13 years as chief strategy officer at Parasoft. He co-authored the 2014 book Continuous Testing, contributed to more than 300 industry articles and is named on six software-testing patents.

- **Role:** Chief Marketing Officer at ScyllaDB
- **Organizations:** ScyllaDB, Tricentis, Parasoft, Fasturn, PwC
- **Education:** BA in Business Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara, MBA in Finance and Business Strategy, Indiana University, Certificate of International Business, Helsinki School of Economics
- **Known for:** Named as an inventor on six patents in software testing and project-health technology., Co-authored the 2014 book Continuous Testing with Cynthia Dunlop., Contributed more than 300 articles to publications including The New Stack, CIO and DevOps.com.

## Career timeline

- **1996-2002** — Worked in PwC's Strategic Change practice.
- **2002-2003** — Served as director of business development at Fasturn.
- **2003-2016** — Spent 13 years as chief strategy officer at Parasoft, helping shape automated testing products and contributing to patented technologies.
- **2014** — Co-authored Continuous Testing with Cynthia Dunlop.
- **2017-2019** — Served as chief marketing officer at Tricentis.
- **2019-2020** — Served as general manager of robotic process automation at Tricentis.
- **2021-present** — Joined ScyllaDB as chief marketing officer to expand awareness and adoption of its NoSQL database.

## Achievements

- Named as an inventor on six patents in software testing and project-health technology.
- Co-authored the 2014 book Continuous Testing with Cynthia Dunlop.
- Contributed more than 300 articles to publications including The New Stack, CIO and DevOps.com.
- Spent 13 years as chief strategy officer at Parasoft.
- Led marketing at Tricentis while the company served more than 1,500 Global 2000 customers.
- Presented on the business cost of software defects at industry events including QCon and STAREAST.

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — Publicly welcomed speaker Piotr Gankiewicz to the P99 CONF 2026 program.
- **2026-05** — Highlighted Discord's Rust-based control plane for automating ScyllaDB clusters at scale.
- **2026-02** — Shared ScyllaDB's performance comparison of its tablets architecture with Apache Cassandra 5.0 vNodes.
- **2025-12** — Promoted ScyllaDB's AWS re:Invent presence and its sea-monster-themed claw-machine booth activation.

## Links

- Website: https://www.scylladb.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wayneariola
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/wayneariola

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Last updated: 2026-09-27