Brian Madden
VP, Field Technology Officer & Futurist at Citrix
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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SeniorBrian Madden is a veteran technology strategist and futurist with over two decades of leadership shaping the future of work, now serving as VP, Field Technology Officer at Citrix in Paris. He blends deep product and industry experience—from founding BriForum and BrianMadden.com to senior roles at VMware—with hands-on technical contributions, including backend development on the open-source Mission Pinball Framework. Known for translating complex enterprise needs into practical roadmaps, he has a track record of mentoring speakers, building communities (vExpert, EUC Champions), and guiding customers through workplace transformation and secure AI adoption. Brian pairs analyst-level insight with practitioner chops—running conferences, publishing thousands of articles, and even investing in startups like FSLogix prior to its Microsoft acquisition. A creative technologist, he brings an uncommon mix of showmanship, technical rigor, and a hobbyist developer’s curiosity that surfaces in projects as eclectic as pinball machine control software. Based in Paris, he focuses on how AI, security, and digital workspaces intersect to make work more productive and resilient.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
French, English
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Github Skills (10)
file-handling10
configuration-management10
python10
software-design9
table-of-contents6
python-sphinx6
restructuredtext6
setuptools6
cython6
pyd6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
missionpinball/mpf
Jul 2014 - Jan 2023
Mission Pinball Framework: Open source software to run a real pinball machine.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:53 releases, 6 reviews, 1907 commits in 8 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Brian's commits primarily involved utility functions, file management, and configuration processing within the context of the Mission Pinball Framework. They refactored existing code by cleaning up utility functions, creating a new file manager, and modifying the configuration handling by migrating configuration files and making them compatible with the project. This indicates contributions to the backend logic and underlying system.
pinballpythonmpfraspberry-pimission-pinball-framework
missionpinball/mpf-examples
Feb 2016 - Jan 2023
Mission Pinball Framework Examples (sample games, demos, and tutorial files)
Contributions:92 commits, 9 PRs, 76 pushes in 7 years
pinballmpfgamesmission-pinball-frameworkframework
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