The Veeam Vanguard Program is Veeam’s top-level influencer community. This group shares points of view, provides feedback and is committed to mutual success. Experts in the Vanguard program are a combination of many different disciplines, contribution types and advocacy mechanisms yet are each the best in space regarding technical thought leadership for the technical communities in which Veeam exist.
These individuals have been nominated as Veeam Vanguards. A Veeam Vanguard represents our brand to the highest level in many of the different technology communities in which we engage. These individuals are chosen for their acumen, engagement and style in their activities on and offline.
Veeam’s goals of the Vanguard Program:
The Veeam Vanguards have an opportunity to gain the following:
Former Veeam SE and a veteran of IT industry. Cycling through different roles like head of IT, business development manager, field SE and now a worldwide freelance trainer and consultant. Experienced with the various aspects of the industry and has found his dream job: sharing his knowledge.
Currently working as a Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Connection Inc responsible for pre and post sales solutions including design and implementation of hybrid cloud, virtual workloads and storage technologies. I have over 20 years of experience in IT Infrastructure architecture and operations support. Excellent problem solver and enjoy working with my peers across the industry.
Shane Williford is a Sr. Systems Engineer and has been working in the IT industry for over 20 years across multiple business disciplines. He has been awarded several industry certifications, some of which include Veeam Certified Architect, VMware Certified Advanced Professional, and AWS Solutions Architect — Associate, just to name a few. He also holds two technology community awards — Veeam Vanguard for the past three years and VMware vExpert for 10 years — for his many contributions, involvements, and interactions with the technology community. He has also authored numerous technology certification study guides over the years, including several VCP-DCV Study Guides.
German based Solution Architect working for s.i.g. mbH. With more than 10 years of experience, he focuses on the design and improvement of IT infrastructures in the areas of virtualization, data storage, data backup/recovery and disaster recovery. He holds technical certifications with various vendors and has also been a VMware vExpert for some time.
Wolfgang is working as a senior consultant & engineer at Kapsch BusinessCom in Austria with main focus on virtualization, backup & storage. He´s a vExpert, VUG AT Leader and one of the first Veeam Legends. HPE: MASE Storage, ASE Server; VMware: VCP-NV, 2x VCAP, VCIX; Veeam: VMCE, VMCA.
Seiji is an IT professional with 20+ years of experience in virtualization & networking. He promotes DX as engineer at Meiji Yasuda Life, Japan´s oldest life insurance company. JapanVMUG Leader (2020-22), Co-leader (2017-20), vExpert (2019-22), Veeam Vanguard (2020-22), speaker & blogger.
Senior Cloud Solutions Architect at Tsunati with 20 years experience in IT. Deep background in Backup & Replication, focusing on Automation & Kubernetes. Holds VMCE, VMCA, all of the current Kubernetes certifications, KCNA, CKAD, CKA & CKS. Guest instructor at Kasten by Veeam Kubernetes Learning site.
Cary is a Principal Consultant with strong background in datacenter & deployment solutions, spent over 25 years in planning, design & implementation of network technologies, management & system integration. Holds CISCO CERTIFIED INTERNETWORK EXPERT (CCIE No.4531) from 1999, also a Microsoft MVP.
I am an IT infrastructure analyst with over 20 years of experience. I design and manage IT solutions.I have been engaging and sharing knowledge in the IT communities always seeking to motivate more people to participate in these communities. I am VMUG Leader, vExpert, vExpert Cloud Management, Veeam Vanguard and AZ-900 Certified.
"Senior Technical Instructor at Dell Technologies Education Services (Dell PowerEdge, VxRail Instructor), VMware Certified Instructor Level2 (vSphere, vSAN, NSX-T), VCIX-DCV, VCIX-NV, VMware HCI Master specialist and book author. Also a vExpert 2017-2022."
Chris works for ThinkOn as the Lead Infrastructure Architect. He has a passion for technology & stays on top of the ever-evolving IT realm. He´s a Veeam Vanguard, Veeam Legend, vExpert 3*, VMCA/VMCE certified. He is also the author of Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication 10/11 by Packt Publishing.
Jorge de la Cruz is Systems Engineer at Veeam. In his blog, which has more than 50,000 monthly visits, he regularly talks about Veeam as well as the latest news about VMware, and other Cloud and Datacentre technologies, virtual labs and how-to articles about virtualization, monitorization, open-source, etc.
Senior Solutions Architect, VCIX-DCV, Author, Blogger, vExpert 2014-2022. He wrote Implementing VxRail HCI Solutions published by Packt in 2021. In Dell Technologies Proven Professional Knowledge Sharing Competition 2021 his article “Get Ready for Edge Computing” was selected for publication.
Pivot3 SA for HCI, formerly VMware Sr. SE for HCI and IBM XIV Storage Technical Advisor, with 25 years in x86 server deployment and training. VCP-DCV, vExpert, speaker, podcast guest, consultant. Created TinkerTry.com featuring technical articles about efficient virtualization, storage, backup, and more.
Eugene Kashperovetskyi is a Global Solutions Architect, specializing in the cloud and managed services space. His work primarily focuses on assisting Veeam Cloud & Service Provider (VCSP) partners with configuration best practices and optimization of Veeam-powered service delivery, including Backup as a Service (BaaS) and Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) offerings.
David was a global technologist in Veeam’s product strategy group, where he developed the company’s multi-cloud strategy. Prior to joining Veeam, David was the lead evangelist at VMware in the public cloud business unit. Over the past twenty years, David has been a successful entrepreneur, architect, and business consultant working with some of the top consultancies and businesses around the world. He’s also is a regular contributor to the virtualization community, a vExpert since 2012, and was a former Veeam Vanguard.
Matt is a senior technical product marketer within the global product marketing team at Veeam. Prior to joining Veeam, Matt was a senior technical account manager at VMware, where he worked closely with customers to achieve their goals and outcomes. Over the course of 20 years in the industry, Matt has also worked in tech support, systems administration, and IT management. As a big believer in the IT community, you can often find Matt presenting at conferences and user group meetings.