About James

James Urquhart is a Strategic Executive Advisor for VMware Tanzu customers. Mr. Urquhart brings almost 30 years of experience in distributed applications development, deployment, and operations, focusing on software as a complex adaptive system, cloud native applications and platforms, and automation. Prior to joining VMware, via Pivotal, Mr. Urquhart ran product and engineering teams for AWS, SOASTA, and Dell (via Enstratius). Mr. Urquhart has also written and spoken extensively about cloud computing, software agility and the business opportunities they afford.

Mr. Urquhart was named one of the ten most influential people in cloud computing by both the MIT Technology Review and the Huffington Post, and is a former contributing author to GigaOm and CNET. He recently completed a book on event-driven integration for O'Reilly Publishing titled "Flow Architectures: The Future of Event-Driven Integration".

Mr. Urquhart graduated from Macalester College with a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Physics.

Links:

• VMWare: https://www.vmware.com/
• Book: Flow Architectures: The Future of Streaming and Event-Driven integration: https://www.amazon.com/Flow-Architectures-Streaming-Event-Driven-Integration/dp/1492075892
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/jamesurquhart