As Head of Ecosystem Programs, Dave uses emerging technologies and open source projects like Microservices, Serverless & Kubernetes to bring the magic of Redis to the broader community. Dave has extensive ecosystem experience from his years of engagement in the web, cloud and big data trenches. Prior to Redis Labs, Dave led the relationship between Intel’s Deep Learning in Apache Spark project and public cloud providers; and at PayPal where he helped pioneer web api developer evangelism.

Joe Arnold has spent the past ten years building software systems for cloud computing, network management and high-volume consumer web sites. Joe is currently deploying infrastructure clouds with Cloudscaling. Prior to Cloudscaling, Joe served as the Director of Engineering at Engine Yard, and was responsible for building their Ruby on Rails cloud computing deployment platform and open-source efforts including Rails 3. Before EngineYard, he served as a Director for Yahoo Emerging Markets (India, South East Asia and Latin America), and built network management software at AirWave Wireless (acquired by Aruba Networks).