Donald Ferguson
Technical Fellow, Corporate Chief SW Architect, VP&GM Cloud, Solutions And Enablement Business Unit
Town of Lewisboro, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDonald Ferguson is a seasoned technology leader and architect who currently serves as Technical Fellow and Corporate Chief Software Architect as well as VP & GM for Cloud, Solutions, and Enablement at Ansys. He combines deep research pedigree—formerly an IBM Fellow and Microsoft Technical Fellow—with hands-on startup experience as Co-Founder and CTO of SparqTV/Seeka TV, bridging enterprise product strategy and cloud-native engineering. An adjunct professor of computer science at Columbia University, he mentors the next generation while steering large-scale software and cloud platforms in industry. His career includes CTO roles at Dell and CA Inc., demonstrating a rare ability to translate cutting-edge research into commercial software at scale. Based in Lewisboro, NY, he also served as a junior officer in the New York Guard, reflecting a commitment to public service beyond tech. Known for blending academic rigor with practical product delivery, he focuses on scalable, secure cloud solutions and developer enablement.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Columbia University in the City of New York
Github Skills (9)
amazon-ecs10
java9
gcp9
backend9
sap-cap9
microservices8
databases8
database8
cloud-computing4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
donald-f-ferguson/E6156-Microservices-Cloud-Native-Applications
Aug 2018 - Apr 2020
E6156 - Topics in SW Engineering: Microservice and Cloud Applications
Contributions:66 commits, 57 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
gcpengineeringmicroservicessap-capjava
donald-f-ferguson/W4111S21
Dec 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:57 commits, 48 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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