James Urquhart

James Urquhart is a Principal Technologist for VMware Tanzu. Mr. Urquhart brings almost 30 years of experience in distributed applications development, deployment, and operations, focusing on software as a complex adaptive system, cloud native applications and platforms, and automation. Prior to joining VMware, via Pivotal, Mr. Urquhart ran product and engineering teams for AWS, SOASTA, and Dell (via Enstratius). Mr. Urquhart has also written and spoken extensively about software agility and the business opportunities it affords.

Mr. Urquhart was named one of the ten most influential people in cloud computing by both the MIT Technology Review and the Huffington Post, and is a former contributing author to GigaOm and CNET.

Mr. Urquhart graduated from Macalester College with a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Physics.