Gabe Monroy is a seasoned technology executive and CTO currently leading Workday’s push to make its platform open, extensible, and AI-native after a decade-plus career shaping cloud-native developer experiences. He has led major product and engineering organizations at Google, Microsoft, and DigitalOcean, driving Kubernetes, serverless, and developer tooling initiatives that power billions in cloud revenue and product adoption. As founder and former CTO of Deis and an early contributor to Docker and Kubernetes, Gabe combines operator-level systems expertise with open source stewardship and CNCF board experience. He has a track record of launching fast-growing cloud services (including starting AKS at Microsoft) and bringing AI assistance into developer workflows. Based in Boulder, Colorado, he speaks frequently on distributed systems and cloud services and is known for translating low-level infrastructure complexity into developer-friendly products. An operator at heart, he pairs entrepreneurial product instincts with deep technical credibility across containers, orchestration, and cloud-native ecosystems.
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