Our Authors

Alexandre Arrive
Alex is the Global Presales leader for Veeam Kasten Business Unit with over 10 years in virtualization and cloud technologies. Drawing from his experience as a Solution Architect and his work with Global System Integrators, he writes about datacenter transformation, containerization, and modern data protection strategies.

James Tate
I've held many positions in my 25yr career in IT, starting out in storage and fibre-channel networking, to HCI and virtualisation and finally ending up in cloud and Kubernetes. I currently work as a Kasten Senior SE for the Nordics, Benelux, UKI and Middle East regions. My passion is technology in all forms, especially Kubernetes where I believe the future of the internet services lies, in fact I eat my own lunch....I run my many websites out of my homelab which would put most small businesses to shame. Outside of tech I live in the UK and have 3 retired racing greyhounds and my major passion is cycling.

Matt Bator
Matt is a 15+ year IT veteran with a passion for educating others about emerging technologies. From roles in development, to sales, to enablement, Matt’s career has continually focused on creating connections between customer value and technical problem solving. His work at Kasten includes designing and delivering training on Kasten’s product and Kubernetes ecosystem for employees, partners, and the community. Matt holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Northeastern University.

Matt Slotten
Matt brings over 15 years of experience to his role as Principal Solutions Architect at Kasten. He has a background in cloud computing, DevSecOps, and IT infrastructure, including cloud infrastructure, virtualization, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), and web application development. Matt is passionate about learning, leveraging, and building open-source technology software projects both at work and in his free time.

Michael Cade
A community first technologist for Kasten by Veeam Software. Based in the UK with over 16 years of industry experience with a key focus on technologies such as cloud native, automation & data management. His role at Kasten is to act as a technical thought leader, community champion and project owner to engage with the community to enable influencers and customers to overcome the challenges of Cloud Native Data Management and be successful, speaking at events sharing the technical vision and corporate strategy whilst providing ongoing feedback from the field into product management to shape the future success.

Michael Courcy, Deepika Dixit
**Michael Courcy** started his career as a solutions architect, focused mainly on JAVA/JEE for government projects. Now he works as a DevOps architect, building cloud native solutions based on Kubernetes and the main cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and many more. # ### **Deepika Dixit** is an experience software developer, focused mainly on Kubernetes and Go development. She is specialized in RBAC, Credential Management, as well as building cloud-native applications.

Michael Courcy
I started my career as a solutions architect, focused mainly on JAVA/JEE for government projects. Now I work as a DevOps architect, building cloud native solutions based on Kubernetes and the main cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and many more.

Mark Lavi
As Principal, Cloud Native Product Manager, Mark focuses on Kasten and Veeam's open source efforts for Kubernetes data protection and application disaster recovery, security, and migration. He aligns upstream, downstream, and Kasten project efforts across open source, working group, and business partner communities. His previous experience includes DevOps and Developer Advocacy leadership at Nutanix, Silicon Graphics, Netscape and Silicon Valley start ups.

Pietro Piutti
I started my profession as a Data Center technician and climbed the tech ladder step after step, spending my 20+ years career in IT switching between customer and vendor roles. I actively contributed to the users community as a VMware vEXPERT, a VMUG Italy Leader and Tech Field Day delegate, writing about tech on my (defunct) blog. I have been "refactoring" myself from old-skool infrastructure geek to a cloud-native one. After some time as Technical Marketing Manager with Sysdig, I joined Veeam Kasten, where I am an Inside Sr. Systems Engineer covering EMEA customers. I live in Valencia, Spain with my wife and two cats.

Satheesh Mohandass
Satheesh Mohandass is a Solutions Architect at Kasten by Veeam where he focuses on developing solutions and working with customers to use Kasten as their Kubernetes Data Protection solution. His previous roles include System Engineering, Technical Product Marketing, Architecting Data Governance solutions, Account Management and developing Data Warehouse projects.