Nutanix Certified Expert (NCX) Directory
The Nutanix Certified Expert certification tests candidates on their ability to create and deliver Cloud-Smart solutions that leverage the Nutanix stack for Private Cloud and the best offerings from our Public Cloud partners for hybrid services.
Every NCX is an expert in their field and has the proven ability to design enterprise-scale solutions that support business-critical applications with service level agreements specified by business stakeholders.
Official Directory
Mohammed Azam
Employer: Nutanix
LinkedIn: Mohammed Azam Noorani
Bio: Mohammed Azam Noorani is a Senior Resident Consultant for Nutanix Saudi Arabia. He is an experienced IT professional with more than 22 years of expertise in the field delivering high-end and successful IT projects for both private and public organizations with customer satisfaction as the top priority. He has worked in many multi-billion and multi-technology projects across the Middle East while integrating the different technologies and following the best practices and team management skills for successful project completion. He is solution oriented, technically strong, and always keeps himself technically updated. His current certifications are NCS-MCI Advanced | NCS-MCI Proficient | NCM | 2xNCP | NCS-Core & Master | NCSE-Core & DS | NCA | NCSR 2022 | VCP-DCV 2021 | Azure Solution Architect | Amazon AWS | Fortinet NSE4 | PaloAlto PCNSE | SolarWinds SCP | ITIL.
Aritro Basu
Employer: Nutanix
LinkedIn: Aritro Basu
Bio: Aritro is a Sr. Staff Consulting Architect at Nutanix based out of Bangalore, architecting for both APAC and EMEA region. He has around 11+ years of IT industry experience. He joined Nutanix as an SRE in 2015 and then changed roles from leading an APAC Support Readiness team to Consulting Architect in the Professional Services team. He majorly deals with complex infrastructure design projects which involves emerging products like DRaaS, Flow Virtual Networking, Nutanix Cloud Clusters, etc. Along with this he also works on architecting automation projects involving product integrations with 3rd Party tools (Firewalls/CRMs/CMDBs) using Nutanix SSP and Terraform. Prior to Nutanix, he worked as a Technical Support Engineer in Citrix, supporting products like NetScaler, Citrix Access Gateway, XenApp and XenDesktop. By virtue of which, he has done multiple projects on the Citrix Apps and Desktop implementation on Nutanix AHV. In addition to multiple Nutanix certifications, Aritro also holds other key industry certifications including CCNA (R&S), VCP-Data Center Virtualization, AWS Solution Architect Associate and Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).
Daemon Behr
Employer: Nutanix
LinkedIn: Daemon Behr
Bio: Daemon Behr is a Systems Architect at Nutanix. He has over 20 years of industry experience and provides IT architecture design for Global Financial Services and Enterprises. He has taught courses on infrastructure design and security at the British Columbia Institute of Technology, and the University of British Columbia. Daemon is the author of Designing Risk in IT Infrastructure, and a co-author of The Nutanix Design Guide and IT Architect Series: Stories from the Field.
Rajendra Bhise
Employer: Atos Global IT Solutions & Service Private Ltd
LinkedIn: Rajendra Bhise
Bio: Rajendra is an experienced IT Infrastructure and Cloud Architect working in the IT industry for more than 20 years. During his career he has held various roles in different areas like System Administrator, Messaging and Unified Communication expert, Infrastructure Architect, and Solution Architect. He has an excellent understanding of how various components of IT infrastructure work together. He has deep knowledge in data center technologies, security, cloud solution, architecture frameworks, architecture governance which enables him to help customers solve their problems. In his current role, Rajendra has designed, and supported enterprise solutions based on Hyper Converged infrastructure using Nutanix HCI. Rajendra helps customers to achieve their business goals and optimized business outcome. He is very passionate about technology, believes in continuous learning and keeping skills up to date. In addition to Nutanix Certified Expert, Rajendra holds other industry certifications like TOGAF 9.2 Certified Enterprise Architect, Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Associate, Certified DevOps Practitioner and ITIL v3 Certification.
Maroane Boutayeb
Employer: OVHcloud
LinkedIn: Maroane Boutayeb
Bio: Maroane Boutayeb is the Global Unit Lead for the Nutanix on OVHcloud solution, a cutting-edge cloud offering similar to NC2 that combines the power and flexibility of Nutanix software with the reliability and scalability of OVHcloud BareMetal instances.
With over fifteen years of experience in site reliability engineering, system administration, and infrastructure management, Maroane has worked with various technologies and platforms, such as AWS, VMware, Red Hat, and Nutanix.
He is currently responsible for the industrialisation of the Nutanix technology on OVHcloud BareMetal instances, from design and manufacturing to sales and service. He is deeply involved in all aspects of the product lifecycle, ensuring the quality, performance, and security of the solution.
He is also recognised as one of 100 Nutanix Technology Champions, a prestigious award that honors the most influential and passionate Nutanix experts in the world.
Additionally, he participates in the Nutanix SME program and holds multiple Nutanix certifications, demonstrating his knowledge and skills on Nutanix solutions. He is the Nutanix Certified Expert - Multicloud Infrastructure #77.
Christian Cadavid
Employer: Nutanix
LinkedIn: Christian Cadavid
Bio: Christian is a Staff Resident Architect with more than 15 years of IT experience in enterprise and Hybrid Cloud infrastructure. In his current role, Christian designs, implements, and supports enterprise solutions based on various Hybrid Cloud technologies to accelerate digital transformation and solve complex issues. In the past, Christian has worked for various customer environments including most recently automobile, retail, Oil & Gas, telecommunications and managed services. In addition to Nutanix NCX, Christian holds a M.Sc. in Information Security and several industry certifications from Nutanix, Microsoft, and Netapp.
Kyle Cherry
Employer: Nutanix
Bio: Kyle is a veteran of the IT services industry with over 20 years experience and having held roles from the helpdesk all the way through to principle architect and pre-sales roles. Kyle is a Senior Consultant for the APJ Services organization and over the past 12 months at Nutanix actively helped train and skill partner resources, completed complex designs and implementations for Metro Availability, Leap DR and Files.
In addition to multiple Nutanix certifications, Kyle also holds other key industry certifications including CCIA (Citrix Certified Integration Architect, VCP and MCSE.
Vernon Chia
Employer: ST Engineering Mission Software & Services
LinkedIn: Vernon Chia
Bio: Vernon is a Principal Engineer at ST Engineering, working in the IT industry for the past 10 years. Throughout his time in ST Engineering, he has seen through many projects, focusing on dark site/air-gapped deployments. His key expertise and experience is in Systems Integrations and he has a strong interest in understanding how different solutions, systems and/or products can come together to solve problems. In addition to Nutanix NCX, Vernon also holds other industry certifications such as AWS-SAA, MCSE, and RHCSA.
Luke Davis
Employer: Nutanix
Bio: Luke Davis leads the EUC global practice for Nutanix Professional Services. With over 15 years in the industry, he has architected many complex EUC solutions for customers worldwide to meet their transformational goals. He shares his experience to help build industry-leading service offers and align delivery best practices that ensure customer success through both Nutanix Professional Services and the Nutanix Partner network.
Alexey Davydov
Employer: Nutanix
LinkedIn: Alexey Davydov
Bio: Alexey is an experienced Technology Architect with over 15 years working in the IT industry and specializing in Datacenter infrastructure and Hybrid Cloud. In his current role as a Systems Engineer, he is responsible for creating technical solutions to solve customers’ complex business issues and objectives. Prior to joining Nutanix, he worked at a consulting partner in Canada providing pre-sales and post-sales consultancy for datacenter and cloud infrastructure products and services. Besides being Nutanix certified, Alexey holds other industry certifications including VMware, Cohesity, Cisco, AWS.
Hyson D’Souza
Employer: Bahrain Business Machines B.S.C (C)
LinkedIn: Hyson D’Souza
Bio: Hyson is an ace Technology Services Specialist with rich IT experience specializing in modern datacenter hybrid-cloud infrastructure. In a span of 15 years, he has worked in various categories of IT fields such as trainer, support, implementation, and solution design. He has a deep understanding of technologies from Microsoft, Veeam, VMware, Lenovo, IBM and Netapp. He loves exploring new fields and holds multiple industry certification. Currently Hyson is working with GBM Bahrain as a Technology Evangelist responsible for designing and implementing Hybrid Cloud solutions for customers.
Kenneth Fingerlos
Employer: Nutanix
Bio: Kenneth is a 25+ year IT veteran, having held positions with end-customer, reseller, and IT manufacturer organizations. Holding roles in deskside support, server administration, datacenter administration, enterprise architecture, IT management, and consulting. He prides himself on being a “full stack specialist” designing and deploying end-to-end solutions for data centers, private and hybrid-cloud, and end user computing. He approaches problems with the fundamental questions of “Why are we doing this? And what is its value?”. Kenneth holds advanced certifications from Nutanix, VMware, Citrix and numerous others.
Mark Gabryjelski
Employer: WEI
LinkedIn: Mark Gabryjelski
Bio: Mark Gabryjelski has been practicing x86 virtualization since 2002. Hundreds of integrations and implementations later, his experiences, lessons learned, and insights should help you keep your nights and weekends for yourself. Mark has been at WEI since the end of 2011, and helped create a formalized virtualization practice. While building the practice, Mark developed, updated, and leads many of the WEI Workshops training courses on a variety of topics from VMware, Nutanix, EUC topics, Day 2 operations, and PowerShell. Mark maintains many Nutanix certifications abd currently holds multiple NCP certifications, NCAP, NCSX, and NCX-MCI, and is recognized by Nutanix as an SME in Multicloud Infrastructure. Mark also maintains many VMware certifications and currently holds VCP #46, and VCDX #023, while being recognized by VMware as an SME in many practice areas. Mark is a founder of the IT Architect Series of books, and authored “Foundation in the Art of IT Infrastructure Design” and "Stories from the Field Vol 1" in the series.
Joe Garvey
Employer: Nutanix
LinkedIn: Joe Garvey
Bio: Joe has been on the System Engineering team at Nutanix since January 2018, working with various customers, from NY Healthcare to Financials. He is currently a Regional Architect based in the NY Metro area, supporting Global Financial and NY Enterprise accounts. Starting an IT career in the early 2000s, he spent the majority on the operations and engineering side. For the last decade he has been designing datacenters, planning migrations and building BCDR plans. Always trying to learn, he has achieved other industry certifications, including ITIL, VMware, AWS, and Azure.
Mischa Hal
Employer: Nutanix
LinkedIn: Mischa Hal
Bio: Mischa is an experienced Senior Systems Engineer with more than 25 years of experience within the IT Industry. In 2001 he started working with high-end SAN arrays and worked at resellers in an advising and implementing role. Growing in his career he was a trusted advisor for large hospitals in the Netherlands. Seeing complexity and issues with manageability grow, he decided that this needed a solution that could solve all of these issues and made the switch to Nutanix. Within Nutanix his main focus is helping customers reduce IT complexity and help them in transitioning to a hybrid multicloud solution. He will always try to keep designs simple and effective.
Nick Hartman
Employer: Stratascale/SHI
LinkedIn: Nick Hartman
Bio: Nick is an Enterprise Architect with over 20 years of experience in various publishing, financial, healthcare, and pre-sales roles. In those roles, he has worked within finance, security, cloud, network, IT policy, enterprise architecture, and consulting teams to help find new and innovative solutions to the most challenging problems. Nick is working with executive teams at Fortune 1000 companies to help them drive innovation while reducing costs and increasing operational efficiency. He equally enjoys learning new technologies and delivering training sessions to help individuals and companies achieve their goals and encourage lifelong learning. He has his MBA from Xavier University and holds several industry certifications, including Nutanix, TBM, FinOps, AWS, Microsoft, and Google.
Scott Hor
Employer: Nutanix
LinkedIn: Scott Hor
Bio: Scott Hor is a Staff Consulting Architect at Nutanix. He has over 19 years of IT experience ranging from Unix Admin, Storage Specialist and Solution Architect. In his current role, he helps design and implement Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure for customers and helps customers to achieve business outcome and digital transformation.
Tod Holsenbeck
Employer: Nutanix
Bio: Tod has done extensive work as a Virtualization Architect for medium to large enterprises, with a focus on healthcare, retail, and virtual desktops. A seasoned professional with over 25 years’ experience in IT infrastructure design and operations, his primary focus has been on large enterprises. He enjoys problem solving, working on tuning as well as deployment of new environments, and he understands the importance of organizations and teams evolving along with the technology. In his previous role as a Sr. Enterprise Architect, he led multiple infrastructure projects, design and deployments of multiple datacenters including green field and brown field migrations. He ran point on digital and infrastructure transformation projects, including migrating SQL and Oracle business critical applications from physical to virtual; transforming business continuity to meet ever changing SLA’s; migrating ecommerce to cloud native platforms; stabilizing and re-architecting VMware and Citrix environments globally; implementing hyperconverged hardware solutions leveraging Nutanix for global call centers; and led on call center transformation to hybrid cloud model to keep up with the agile business needs.
Patrick Huber
Employer: SVA GmbH
LinkedIn: Patrick Huber
Bio: Patrick is an experienced IT Consultant working in the IT industry for over 20 years now. During his career he has held various roles in different areas (HW/SW support services, managed services, pre-sales, consulting, and solution design). In his current role, Patrick designs, implements, and supports enterprise solutions based on various Hybrid Cloud technologies and helps customers to achieve business goals, digital transformation, and optimized business outcome. He is very passionate about technology, education, and in understanding how the different bricks and cornerstones of an IT infrastructure work together. In addition to Nutanix NCX, Patrick holds other industry certifications from Nutanix, VMware and Veeam.
Rommel Humarang
Employer: VMware
LinkedIn: Rommel Humarang
Bio: Rommel has over 19 years of IT experience ranging from technical support, IT operations, and Professional Services. In his current role as a Senior Consultant within VMware SEAK's Professional Services Organization, Rommel has helped large customers in Southeast Asia (primarily in Singapore) to achieve their business outcomes using various multi-cloud technologies. In addition to Nutanix NCX and numerous Nutanix certifications, Rommel is also VMware VCIX and VCAP certified.
Ross Hunt
Employer: Nutanix
Bio: Ross brings over 14 years of extensive IT experience, ranging from support to architecture, in medium and large enterprises with a strong emphasis on cloud and automation technologies. Before joining Nutanix, Ross was an active member of the Nutanix Technology Champion program and served as a Nutanix User Group leader, earning recognition as a multicloud SME. As a cloud architect, Ross has a proven track record of designing and operationalizing solutions that seamlessly integrate cloud technologies with Nutanix workloads. He has consistently designed and implemented various Nutanix technologies to ensure scalability and efficiency. Since joining Nutanix as a Staff Resident Architect, Ross has continued to excel in designing tailored solutions for customers to help them scale their enterprise solutions to meet their specific needs. He holds certifications in Terraform and GitHub, along with multiple Nutanix certifications specializing in hybrid and multicloud implementations.
Osama Ibrahim
Employer: Nutanix
Bio: Osama Ibrahim is a highly skilled professional with a passion for cloud and virtualization technologies. With over 25 years of technical expertise in this field, he has made significant contributions to the industry and has become a recognized expert in his domain. Osama holds a master's degree in Cloud and Virtualization, which has provided him with a strong foundation and deep understanding of these cutting-edge technologies. Throughout his career, Osama has demonstrated exceptional knowledge and proficiency in implementing cloud-based solutions and virtualization strategies. His expertise spans across various platforms and technologies, enabling him to deliver innovative solutions that optimize business operations and drive efficiency. In his professional experience, Osama has worked with numerous small, medium-sized and enterprise businesses, guiding them in their adoption of cloud and virtualization technologies. He has successfully implemented scalable and cost-effective solutions that have empowered these organizations to enhance their productivity and competitiveness in the market.
Vishal Idge
Employer: Nutanix
LinkedIn: Vishal Idge
Bio: Vishal has been working with Nutanix as a Senior Resident Consultant since 2021. He carries 14+ years of experience in the IT industry and has worked on multiple converged and hyperconverged technologies like VCE (VMWare, Cisco & EMC), Nutanix, and Cisco Hyperflex. He has extensive experience in managing various storage platforms (EMC VNX series and XTremeIO), VDI (VMware, Citrix), Backup solutions (EMC AVAMAR, Data Domain, Networker & Veeam) and Microsoft Office 365. He has strong scripting skills and has driven 300+ automation use cases using PowerShell. His current certifications include NCP, NCS-Core, NCM, NCP-DS, NCP-DB, NCX
Abraham Joseph
Employer: Nutanix
Bio: Abraham is a Staff Resident Consultant at Nutanix. In his role, he helps design and implement hybrid cloud infrastructure solutions that solve business needs and requirements for medium to enterprise customers. Abraham’s primary areas of expertise are on Virtualization, Cloud, Networking, Storage, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics engineering and worked as an Electrical engineer prior to transitioning into the IT industry. In addition to Nutanix certifications he also holds industry certifications from AWS, Microsoft, VMware, Dell EMC, Hitachi Data Systems and IBM.
Ayub Khan
Employer: Nutanix
LinkedIn: Ayub Khan
Bio: Ayub Khan is a Senior Resident Consultant for Nutanix Saudi Arabia for enterprise customers, and a seasoned, multi-skilled ICT professional with 18 years of rich experience and expertise in the area of managed IT Services Delivery, IT projects, and Customer Success Consulting. As a Senior Architect Consultant he is responsible for delivering IT solutions across diverse industries, proven expertise in handling migrations and transitions of all volumes using in-depth knowledge of designing and implementations of data center facilities, data center technologies, IT infrastructure, IT applications, and data management, enterprise cloud technology. He holds other industry certifications including PMP | Huawei 9274, HCIE X 3-Cloud, Storage, Data center | CCIE-DC | Azure Cloud Architect | AWS-Cloud | Oracle Cloud | Commvault Expert.
Mikhail Kisselyov
Employer: Kazakhtelecom JSC
Linkedin: Mikhail Kisselyov
Bio:Mikhail is the head of the regional IT infrastructure department at the IT Division of Kazakhtelecom JSC. In addition to managing a team of Systems and Network Engineers, he works with different types of server hardware, virtualization solutions and HCI, storage systems and SDS, backup systems, microservices and Kubernetes. He blogs at https://vmik.net [vmik.net] and participates in the community program Nutanix Technology Champion. He is also a former VMware vExpert and Veeam Vanguard.
Kanishk Kumar
Employer: Nutanix
LinkedIn: Kanishk Kumar
Bio: Kanishk is a Resident Manager at Nutanix with overall 8 years of experience in Enterprise and Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure. In his current role, he is responsible for the delivery management and enablement of Residency services for Nutanix customers. He is passionate about Solution architecture, virtualization and enjoys problem solving. Kanishk also brings experience as a Senior TAM at Nutanix, where he worked with customers to optimize their HCI and achieve their business outcomes while increasing portfolio adoption. Prior to joining Nutanix, Kanishk worked as a Presales Consultant for Dell EMC, where he focused on designing Storage solutions for Global accounts. He has also earned architecture certifications for Dell Midrange, AWS Associate, and Nutanix.
Igor Larionov
Employer: ETF-Flashtrade
LinkedIn: Igor Larionov
Bio: Igor is a Systems Engineer with 10 years of experience with various of IT technology solutions, including Storage and HCI products. Previously he has worked as Support Consultant, Pre-Sales, Systems Engineer, and Architect at IT companies in Russia. He has deep knowledge in data center products, cloud solutions, etc. that allow him to successfully resolve customers problems and needs. Today, he is designing and deploying solutions based on Nutanix that helping customers in their day-by-day operations. He equally enjoys learning new technologies, that's why he holds many industry certifications including Dell, Citrix, Nutanix, and VMware.
Eric Meyer
Employer: Nutanix
LinkedIn: Eric Meyer
Bio: I have been a Sr. Systems Engineer at Nutanix since August 2017 based out of the Pittsburgh, PA area. I spent the early years of my career at Marconi as a Network Engineer for Optical Networks, ATM Switch, and Route / Switch. Over the next few years, I transitioned to a Security design consultant for mission-critical solutions such as Nuclear Power Plants and airports utilizing intelligent threat analysis systems. Pryor coming to Nutanix I was a network Architect for UPMC 8 years achieving the highest level MPLS Certification for Nokia Service Service Routers. Over the last 3 ½ years at Nutanix I have been working in the commercial theater supporting customers across the Ohio Valley. Nutanix has been my favorite stops over the course of my career as I thoroughly enjoying working with customers, designing solutions, learning all of our amazing products, and more importantly the relationships I have built-in and out of Nutanix. I also hold the Nokia SRA(#227) Service Router Certification.
Vaseem Mohammed
Employer: Nutanix
Bio: Vaseem is an accomplished IT professional with over 18 years of experience in the industry. Starting as a web designer in 2005, Vaseem has grown and developed his expertise to become a Staff Consulting Architect at Nutanix, a leading technology company. Based in Abu Dhabi, UAE, he plays a pivotal role in assisting Nutanix customers in developing and designing solutions for their infrastructure, leveraging the power of Nutanix HCI. In his current role, Vaseem is responsible for guiding Nutanix customers through the migration process, ensuring a smooth transition to the new infrastructure. Additionally, Vaseem serves as the Practice and Development Lead for the EMEA region. He works closely with teams across the region, driving new ideas and ensuring that the team is well-equipped to tackle complex challenges and provide strategic guidance to customers seeking to transform their infrastructure. Vaseem holds many certifications and regularly stays updated with the latest trends and advancements in the IT industry.
Joe Panayiotou
Employer: Nutanix
LinkedIn: Joe Panayiotou
Bio: Joe is a veteran of the IT services industry with over 20 years’ experience and having held roles starting from helpdesk all the way through to Enterprise System Admin Team Lead role and Staff Consultant here at Nutanix. He is a Staff Consultant at Nutanix and over the last 2+ years has assisted training and design work along with other Nutanix portfolio deployments such as, implementations for Metro Availability, Leap DR, Nutanix Objects, Nutanix Mine and Files. In addition to multiple Nutanix certifications, Joe also holds a BA in Business Administration with a minor in CIS, as well as holding other key industry certifications including VCP and MCSE.
Raj Patel
Employer: Winslow Tech Group
LinkedIn: Raj Patel
Bio: Raj is the HCI Lead and Sr. Professional Services Engineer for Winslow Tech Group. He has 23+ years of experience managing and implementing server infrastructures and data-center operations across multiple virtual platforms, including Nutanix, VMware, and Dell. Raj started his career in SLED/Local Government, where he became a Nutanix Pre-IPO customer, which led to him joining Nutanix GSO for the first time. After leaving Nutanix, Raj joined Winslow Tech Group as Sr. Service Delivery Manager, later becoming the HCI Lead. Afterward, he re-joined Nutanix for a second time as a Sr. Resident Consultant. After a second go at Nutanix, he rejoins Winslow Tech Group where he is still the HCI Lead and a Sr. Professional Services Engineer. Other IT certs Raj has are: NCS-MCI Xpert, VMware VCIX-DCV, Double VCP – DCV & DM, and Azure Fundamentals.
Suchit Patel
Employer: Hitachi Systems India
LinkedIn: Suchit Patel
Bio: Suchit has over 14+ years of experience in the IT services industry. He has held roles from Support Engineer, Project Engineer, and Delivery Lead, all the way through to being a Solution architect. Currently, he is on an Enterprise Architecture and Consulting team to help find new and innovative solutions to the most challenging problems. In his architectural designs, he puts emphasis on the art of possibility and providing business value while enabling future growth for an IT organization and helping customers with their digital transformation journey by designing solutions. He holds other industry certifications including VMware, Cisco, NetApp, AWS , etc.
Chuan Leong Phua
Employer: Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA)
LinkedIn: Chuan Leong Phua
Bio: Chuan Leong is a Senior Principal Engineer (Cloud Platform) at DSTA with strong interest in architecting enterprise cloud infrastructure and automation strategies to simplify operations and deployments. With over 15 years of experience in the IT industry, he has held various engineering roles, ranging from enterprise client to enterprise server and network design and management. His extensive knowledge of technologies from Nutanix, Microsoft, VMware, Cisco, and Arista has enabled him to develop a deep understanding of the technical requirements for building and managing enterprise cloud infrastructure. As a result, he has architected and deployed various air-gapped enterprise clouds at DSTA. He also led the migration of workloads from traditional IT infrastructure to the enterprise cloud, which helped to improve operational efficiency and reduce costs. His operational experiences led him to become certified in business continuity management. In addition to his work at DSTA, Chuan Leong is also an adjunct lecturer at a tertiary institution, where he shares his IT knowledge and experiences with industry professionals. He teaches courses on cloud computing, data center technologies, and IT services management, helping to equip his students with the skills they need to succeed in the ever-evolving world of IT.
Alex Pierce
Employer: Arctic Wolf
LinkedIn: Alex Pierce
Bio: Alex is a certified, experienced, and motivated Hybrid Cloud Security Architect based out of Vancouver, British Columbia. In his current role as a Systems Engineer, he is responsible for creating innovative technical solutions to solve customers’ complex business issues and objectives. Prior to joining Arctic Wolf, Alex worked at a variety of vendors/partners across North America and the UK providing pre-sales and post-sales consultancy for datacenter and cloud infrastructure products and services. In addition to Nutanix NCX, Alex has a degree in Computer Networking and holds several industry certifications from vendors such as AWS, Cisco, Microsoft, and VMware.
Louis-xavier Piqueret
Employer: Mikadolabs
LinkedIn: Louis-xavier Piqueret
Bio: Louis-xavier is the CTO of Mikadolabs, a French Professional Services Company specialized in Cloud Infrastructure and transformation. With 14 years of experience in IT infrastructures mainly on the client side, he has been involved in many projects in Virtualization, Storage, Backup, Network, Security, Cloud Migration. He joined Mikadolabs as Senior consultant three years ago to develop the Nutanix skills in the company and become an expert, and we try day after day to become the "Top Gun" level of this technology in France. He and his team help customers with their cloud infrastructure, from basic to specific situations, from design to training, with the highest level of expectation possible.
Josh Rosser
Employer: Nutanix
Bio: Josh has been in the IT industry for 20 plus years on Long Island, doing everything from Help Desk to engineer to architect. The majority of the early years were spent on the operations and engineering side, with the later years on the presales side. Josh joined Nutanix back in 2019 as a Senior Engineer covering multiple territories in New York Metro and New England. Most Recently is part of the NY Enterprise team covering some flagship accounts. Always working to refine his craft, he has earned other industry certifications including VMware, AWS, and Microsoft.
Michael in ‘t Hout
Employer: Nutanix
Bio: Michael is a Consulting Architect at Professional Services Nutanix. He helps customers with their infrastructure designs for enterprise solutions and driving digital transformation to reach their business goals. He started his career in 2008 and has held various roles as a support engineer, pre-sales and consultant. Michael holds various industry certifications from Nutanix, Microsoft and VMware, he is also a certified Nutanix trainer.
Venu Vuppalapati
Employer: Nutanix
LinkedIn: Venu Vuppalapati
Bio: Venu is a Senior Staff Architect and Global Database Practice Lead at Nutanix. He has over 20 years of experience working at various state and federal agencies, telecom, finance and manufacturing industries. During his career, he has held various roles in different areas of database administration, systems administration, DBA management, virtualization engineering and consulting architecture. In his current role as a Global Database Practice Lead, Venu is responsible for providing enterprise-level solutions design, creating service offers to help customers, developing and adapting frameworks for consistent service delivery. Venu holds various industry certifications from Nutanix, Oracle, AWS, and VMWare.
Akmal Waheed
Employer: avancerPI Solutions
LinkedIn: Akmal Waheed
Bio: Akmal is Founder & Consulting Architect at avancerPI Solutions. In his current role, he is involved in consulting, designing, implementing, and training small to enterprise customers globally. The solutions are based on Nutanix, VMware, and RedHat technologies. He has worked with Nutanix, Dell EMC, VMware, and Hewlett Packard in multiple customers facing roles, from Technical Support Engineer for Printers to Consulting Architect for Hybrid Cloud solutions. He believes gaining beneficial knowledge is a very important part of life and is available in various forms in nature, hence learning never ends. He is the first winner of Virtual Design Master 2013-VDM001, the first-ever IT reality competition organized by the community. Technical blogger at vdm-001.blogspot.in.
Troy Ward
Employer: Nutanix
LinkedIn: Troy Ward
Bio: Troy has been part of the Nutanix System Engineering team since December 2017 and has covered customers of all sizes from Energy to global Financials. He started his career as a Network Engineering consultant, before working on the customer side for roughly 8 years as an IT generalist. His commitment to customer success drives a desire to design and deliver successful solutions and strives for customer experience above all else.
Steve Wenban
Employer: Nutanix
LinkedIn: Steve Wenban
Bio: Steve is an Advisory Systems Engineer with Nutanix, working with Enterprise customers in the UK. He joined Nutanix in 2016 and has successfully transformed many organizations with no Nutanix footprint into large deployments where Nutanix underpins business critical applications and provides simplified operating models. Prior to Nutanix he spent 15+ years working in consultancy and presales roles, focused on successful adoption of technology platforms to solve business needs. The majority of this time was working in channel partners, before a stint at a software defined storage vendor where he focused on optimizing large scale EUC deployments. Steve is also a VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX-DCV #123), holds certifications from Microsoft, Amazon and Citrix, and now happily tells anyone that will listen about the benefits of AHV and full stack Nutanix.
Dave Weber
Employer: Nutanix
LinkedIn: Dave Weber
Bio: Dave has over 20 years of IT industry experience, including time spent as a Nutanix administrator for a Fortune 1000 company. He has specialized in general server virtualization, SQL deployment and optimization, and low-code automation for virtual machines. He has always lived his professional life on the bleeding edge of IT infrastructure and was an early adopter of HCI, AOS, and AHV. He has a passion for solving challenging infrastructure requirements and designing solutions to move customers to their IT Nirvana. He is always willing to ask the hard questions and is always open to debate around why one way of building a solution might be better or worse than another. Based out of Portland, Oregon with his wife and dogs, he enjoys finding new breweries and digging through crates at record stores.
Igor Zecevic
Employer: Nutanix
Twitter: Igor Zecevic
Bio: Igor is a Consulting Architect at Nutanix. In his role, Igor designs enterprise solutions and helps customers to achieve business goals and digital transformation. He is very passionate about technology, education, and understanding how things work. He believes that knowledge sharing helps build a better community, which he does through his blog on Virtualization and Cloud technologies: https://vinception.fr In addition, Igor holds the VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX #286) certification.
David Zoerb
Employer: Nutanix
LinkedIn: David Zoerb
Twitter: David Zoerb
Bio: David is an experienced IT Architect and Consultant who started his career in IT in 2003. Since then, David has worked in various roles from Network Engineering, Cyber Security, Managed Services, Pre-Sales, Consulting and Solution Design. He is an industry veteran with vast experience at understand and translating business requirements. In his role at Nutanix as a Sr. Staff Consulting Architect, David helps customers to architect and design enterprise solutions, driving digital transformation and reaching their business goals.