Nutanix Platform Expert (NPX) Certification

Employer: Nutanix
Twitter: @josh_odgers
Bio: In his role as a Senior Solutions & Performance Engineer at Nutanix, Josh is responsible for developing reference architecture for solutions, mainly focused around virtualization of Business Critical Applications. Josh works with customers at all levels of their business' including C-Level executives & Senior Management to ensure the solution delivers technical benefits and excellent Return on Investment (ROI). His experience includes leading SMB & Enterprise customers through their cloud computing & hyper-convergence journey.

Employer: Nutanix
Twitter: @wolfbrthr
Bio: Lane brings over 20 years of IT consulting and Design Architecture experience to his job at Nutanix where he works as a Systems Architect evangelizing the benefits of the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud and Web Scale architecture. He delivers presentations and information to both C-Level executives and Technical Engineers in such a way that can be clearly understood and so that both Business Level Objectives and Technical Requirements can be met with the simplest solution possible. Lane's primary focus is on cloud and virtualization solutions but also brings to bear a wealth of experience with Networking, Storage, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery. Lane holds the following certifications in addition to his NPX: Nutanix Platform Professional, VMware VCDX #53, Microsoft MCSE, and many other vendor and industry related certifications.

Employer: Nutanix
Blog: vcdx56.com
Twitter: @magander3
Bio: Magnus is a Sr Staff Solution Architect at Nutanix targeting cloud, automation, disaster recovery applications/solutions. In addition, he is involved in developing new and improve existing Nutanix solutions, features and functionality to enhance the Nutanix offering as well as writing reference architectures and best practices. Magnus has extensive virtualization and infrastructure experience and deep technical expertise in the Nutanix and VMware portfolio. Apart from being NPX #5 Magnus is also a double VCDX #56.

Employer: Nutanix
Blog: basraayman.com
Twitter: @basraayman
Bio: Bas is a solutions architect and part of a team of world-class architects that works with enterprise IT customers to ensure critical workloads run optimally on their Nutanix infrastructure. In his role, he also helps with the architecture and validation of current and future Nutanix products targeted towards business-critical applications. Bas worked for SAP as specialist, and at EMC as part of the vSpecialist team before starting at Nutanix over 5 years ago. In his time with Nutanix he has been a key contributor in building the central European region, and one of the engineers responsible for the Nutanix SAP HANA on HCI certification.

Employer: Nutanix
Blog: headintotheclouds.com
Twitter: @richardarsenian
Bio: Richard is a Senior Staff Solution Architect within the Solutions and Performance R&D engineering team at Nutanix. He is responsible for building and developing innovative solutions on Nutanix’s enterprise cloud platform - including business critical applications and networking technologies. As a Nutanix Platform Expert (NPX #09) and VMware Certified Expert (VCDX #126), Richard brings a wealth of experience within the datacenter across the various elements of the systems development lifecycle (Pre-sales, Consulting and Support) attributed to his experience while working at key technology vendors including VMware and Cisco. Maintaining his passion within the datacenter, Richard also invests his R&D efforts with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), Systems (UAS) and drones. He recently released his concept Nutanix Acropolis 1 (Patent Pending), which takes commodity drone hardware and Nutanix’s Cloud O.S to create a platform to deliver enterprise x86 applications autonomously across a highly resilient distributed filesystem in the sky.

Employer: VMXperts
Twitter: @sbhowan
Bio: Sachin is an executive, founder and senior solutions architect at VMXperts, where he actively works with customers to drill through their technology clutter to define solutions that best match their business processes and company goals. With more than 20 years’ experience in the IT industry, Sachin brings with him extensive technical and thorough architecture design knowledge, as well as an understanding of how clients can future-proof their business. His extensive project know-how enables him to offer clients an unbiased view of their technology landscape, where he is able to assist them in uncovering potential business threats and map. His passion is centered on walking the technical journey with a customer in order to change the technology so that it supports the business.

Employer: Nutanix
Twitter: @wjconrad
Bio: Wayne is an architect in the Nutanix Services consulting group who specializes in datacenter virtualization and VMware View VDI. He is passionate about transforming enterprise IT thru DevOps processes and tools. Wayne is a VMware VCIX-Desktop, VMware VCAP Datacenter DCD & DCA, and is a graduate of the University of Texas at Dallas Jindal School of Management with a BS in Management Information Systems. When not working, Wayne lives in Dallas, Texas with his wife Florence Wang, currently the acting Assistant Concertmaster for the Dallas Opera Orchestra, and their two cats. Wayne is learning Mandarin, and enjoys hobbies like baking, weightlifting, and PC Gaming.

Employer: Nutanix
Blog: derekseaman.com
Twitter: @vDerekS
Bio: Derek is a Sr. Global Solutions Architect at Nutanix, Inc., Nutanix Platform Expert (NPX) #14, VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX-DCV) #125, and has his CISSP. He’s also a top 25 virtualization blogger (www.derekseaman.com). In his role at Nutanix, Derek helps design architectures combining applications with the Nutanix platform, creating solutions that solve critical business needs and requirements while disrupting the infrastructure space. Prior to joining Nutanix, Derek was an IT architect at a global leader in wireless chip technology, where he focused on deploying secure infrastructure solutions to support the development of solutions for the U.S. Government. In these spaces, he has developed methodologies, reference architectures, and frameworks focusing on the design of and transformation to agile, scalable, and cost-effective infrastructures that can be consumed in a service-oriented or cloud-like manner.

Employer: Nutanix
Blog: cloudypolitics.com
Twitter: @quinney_david
Bio: David is a Consulting Architect in the Nutanix Professional Services Organization. In his role, he delivers enterprise level datacenter design and transformation engagements for Nutanix Customers on AHV, ESXi and Hyper-V, along with Business Critical application migrations to the Nutanix Platform. In conjunction to holding Nutanix NPX, David holds other industry certifications including Nutanix NSS, VMware VCAP-Design/Administration, and Microsoft MCSE: Cloud Platform.

Employer: Nutanix
Twitter: @vRoomBlog
Bio: Fouad EL AKKAD is a Senior System Engineer at Nutanix since September 2017 based at Doha (Qatar), he has more twelve years of experience in IT. His strength comes from being in the other side of the desk as the principal virtualization engineer for a large organization (several thousand VM) for more than seven years, having to face several subjects in the core infrastructure (storage, network, virtualization, etc), but also in more innovative area like Cloud, automation, microsegmentation, etc. Fouad also holds the VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX #283) certification.

Employer: Nutanix
Twitter: @MshinNutanix
Bio: Michael is a consulting architect based in Sydney Australia, with over 12 years of IT experience. His role with Nutanix is to design and deliver Nutanix solutions on multiple hypervisors and cloud technologies to customers in APAC region. He joined Nutanix in May 2015 as a support engineer and moved to a consulting team in early 2018 after spending close to 3 years in support/escalation engineer position. Prior to joining Nutanix, Michael has held various positions including support, pre-sales and consulted for vendors and professional services firms, specialized in virtualization and SAN design/implementation.

Employer: Nutanix
Blog: www.vmwaremine.com
Bio: Artur, based in Pennsylvania, USA, is a Customer Success Enterprise Architect at Nutanix. He joined Nutanix in 2014 as a Consulting Architect in EMEA. Artur has been in the IT business since 1999 with 10+ years experience in working with strategic and global customers. In 2012, he achieved VCDX #77 certification (which is the highest VMware certification). Today, Artur is helping the biggest Nutanix customers transform their business into private and hybrid cloud solutions.