As Vice President of Technology Evangelism at WSO2, Chris Haddad raises visibility, awareness, and knowledge of Platform as a Service, API Management, Service Oriented Architecture, and Enterprise Integration Patterns. Chris works closely with developers, architects, and C-level executives to increase WSO2 technology adoption, improve the middleware platform, and maximize customer value.
Previously, Chris led Gartner’s IT1 team advising Fortune 500 enterprise organizations and technology infrastructure vendors on adoption strategies, architecture, product selection, governance, and organizational alignment. The team advanced best practices in Platform as a Service, Cloud Application Architecture Patterns, Service Oriented Architecture, and application middleware.
Prior to joining Gartner, Haddad’s experience includes building software development teams, creating infrastructure frameworks, establishing repeatable development methodologies, hiring and mentoring development talent, and delivering Software as a Service (SaaS) and Internet applications.
Other accomplishments include gaining Apache Axis committer status and speaking at industry events including Gartner Application Architecture Development and Integration (AADI), Gartner Symposium, Burton Group’s Catalyst Conference, Enterprise Architecture Summit, Networld+Interop, SOAWorld, JBossWorld, OMG Workshops, IASA IT Architecture Regional Conferences, and SDWest.
