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Speaker: Joe Duffy
Pulumi Co-founder & CEO, Previously @Microsoft Director of Engineering for Languages/Compilers
Joe Duffy is Co-founder & CEO of a stealth-mode cloud startup in Seattle, Pulumi. Prior to this, he was Director of Technical Strategy and Engineering in Microsoft's Developer Division, managing all of Microsoft's programming language, compiler, and static analysis products, and driving key technical architecture initiatives. He is best known for leading the Midori operating system's developer platform and creating .NET's async, concurrency, and parallel programming models. Joe has over 20 years of experience in software, 90 patents, and still loves to code for hours every day.