Mitch Connors is a Sr. Principal Software Engineer at Aviatrix, and serves on the Istio Technical Oversight Committee. Over the past 17 years, Mitch has worked at Google, F5 Networks, Amazon, an Industrial IoT startup, and State Farm Insurance, giving him a broad perspective on the needs of Enterprise Software Developers. This experience has given Mitch a passion for bringing technological innovation to the long tail of technology adopters without the need to start from scratch.