Darwin Sanoy is a Field Chief Cloud Architect at GitLab. He has spent his career in strategy, architecture, engineering and coding for scaled provisioning and operations automation. His early career was in enterprise IT automation, mid-career was running a solo business for enterprise automation training and the last decade has been focused on Cloud, DevOps and Agile. Before joining GitLab, Darwin was the Service Manager and SRE Manager for GitLab as a Service that addressed the needs of over 100 public facing SaaS stacks built by 4000 software developers modernizing their SaaS to the public cloud. He is nearly equally dangerous on Windows, Linux and MacOS. He is constantly reading on topics in and around how technology can be leveraged to create business and customer value.

Darwin is Enterprise Architecture certified, AWS DevOps Pro certified, is a DevOps Institute Ambassador and serves on the DevOps and ITSM Advisory Board for PeopleCert. He also loves volunteering at Economic Mobility Nonprofits that bootstrap people into tech careers to improve their lifetime earnings potential.