Ned Shawa leads the Solutions Engineering Team in Asia Pacific and Japan for HashiCorp, directly aligning with CIOs and CTOs in the Financial industry, the Technology sector and Governments advising on application modernisation, cloud adoption and multi-cloud strategies, with DevOps and DataOps and application delivery pipelines in the centre. Ned has over 15 years of experience in infrastructure and analytics – in his current role, he was the first employee for HashiCorp in the APJ region, leading the awareness of the challenges of multi-cloud and how to overcome them using infrastructure and cloud-agnostic platforms that address a long term challenge of provisioning, securing and interconnecting a multi-cloud and infrastructure environments. This allows a long term resilience and maximum agility for platform engineering teams and lays the foundation for modern application delivery and modern data centres.