David Cruickshank

David Cruickshank (MSIS, SCU) is vice president of SAP Multicloud devOps, responsible for enabling multiple lines of business to operate securely and resiliently over public cloud infrastructure from the top four public cloud providers. His teams oversee central account management, governance, security, networks and auditing for thousands of company cloud accounts harboring millions of virtual assets. The teams led by David originate and manage pioneering work in the migration to public cloud, and frequently share its knowledge across the company, the partner ecosystem and with customers.

Prior to leading SAP Multicloud, David spent more than a decade directing the SAP Co-Innovation Lab in Palo Alto, California. He has worked with a multitude of partners from Silicon Valley and around the globe to develop co-innovated solutions. He remained at the forefront of leading co-innovated solutions for, AI, ML, IoT and big data for edge computing, developed with a multitude of partners from Silicon Valley and around the globe.

David’s rich operational, engineering and development skills cut across a wide range of topics from cyber security product management to data center operations and edge computing.

As a recognized Industry thought leader, David has contributed to an array of articles and other publications on the topics of ecosystems-based co-innovation, AI and data analytics, cloud platform and program development, as well as IoT edge computing for operational integrity.

David holds a B.S. in Political Science and English from Western Michigan University and an MSIS from Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business. His career spans three decades in Silicon Valley, working for a representation of high tech’s best firms like Software Publishing Company, NetManage, SBE, Netscreen, Sun Microsystems and SAP. When he’s not problem solving at the edge of some cloud, David enjoys time with family and riding his longboard.