Gates O
Director, IoT Alliances (AWS & PTC) at Tata Consultancy Services
Fairview, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGates O is a seasoned IoT and cloud partnerships leader with over 20 years of experience driving digital transformation, currently serving as Director of IoT Alliances (AWS & PTC) at Tata Consultancy Services. He combines deep alliance management and go-to-market skills across manufacturing, energy, healthcare and hospitality with hands-on technical insight from past engineering contributions to open-source web hosting projects. Known for recruiting and scaling strategic partners (including wins with Cognizant, TCS and Wipro) and for consistently exceeding targets in partner-led IoT programs, he blends sales rigor with solution architecture and market strategy. Gates also advises startups on team, strategy and capital formation, leveraging a broad VC network and methodologies for vendor-led innovation. He holds an MBA in Finance and a BS in Management Information Systems, and brings a rare mix of enterprise dealcraft and practical backend troubleshooting experience that helps bridge executive strategy with implementable technical solutions.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Management Information Systems General, Bachelor of Science - BS Management Information Systems General at Southern New Hampshire UniversityMBA Finance, MBA Finance at Loyola University Maryland
English, French
Github Skills (24)
scripting10
centos10
bash10
apache10
php10
script10
control-panel10
installer10
sql10
sh10
shell10
installers10
mysql9
ubuntu9
linux9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sentora/sentora-installers
Sep 2014 - Dec 2018
Provides a central place to store, version and distribute the Sentora installer and upgrade scripts from.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 29 commits, 16 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Gates primarily focused on improving the Sentora installer scripts and database configurations. Their contributions include fixing syntax errors in the shell scripts, enhancing grammar in the installation instructions, and modifying the SQL database schema, including adjusting data types and adding default values. They also corrected the EPEL repository path and made adjustments to the database settings related to SPF/TXT records and DKIM values. These changes were critical to improving the functionality and overall user experience of the Sentora installer.
placeubuntu1604vagrantsentryinstaller
sentora/sentora-core
Jul 2014 - Dec 2018
Sentora is a web hosting control panel written in PHP for *NIX
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 53 commits, 68 PRs in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Gates primarily contributed to the Sentora control panel's back-end functionality. Their work included fixing bugs, such as issues related to session security and backup filename timestamps. The user also updated and improved existing features, for example, modifying the domain module to allow for newer TLDs. Furthermore, the user made changes to the apache configuration, adding default error pages and fixing the Sentora Apache login port.
hostingcentosweb-hostingphplinux
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