Industry veteran Joe DePalo and distinguished technical leaders who have helped build and scale the Internet join to develop platform engineering organization
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Mar. 28, 2019 – Netskope, the leader in cloud security, today announced the appointment of Joe DePalo as Senior Vice President, Platform Engineering. Joining the platform engineering team with DePalo are VP of Platform Architecture and Services Jason Hofmann; VP of Platform Engineering Jake Roersma; and VP of Infrastructure Patrick Bohannon.
The rise of cloud computing and microservices architectures has expanded the scope of cloud operations into a platform engineering function whose charter is to provide and support a platform or set of platforms on top of which services can be built. The Netskope platform engineering organization will be focused on building out the worldwide Netskope private cloud while continuing to work with the major public cloud providers, creating a unified platform that includes end-to-end monitoring, automated orchestration, and self-healing, optimized for resiliency and performance.
In addition to DePalo, Hofmann, Roersma, and Bohannon, the Netskope platform engineering organization has made dozens of additional strategic hires who have helped to scale the internet and launch and scale some of the world’s largest cloud services, carriers, CDNs and networks including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Level3 Networks, Limelight Networks, VMware, Twitch, DE-C