Veeam MVP Directory

Senior Solutions Architect for the VCSP (Veeam Cloud & Service Provider) engineering team in North America with a focus on orchestration and automation.  Chris has over 20 years’ experience in managing & automating enterprise-scale data centers and uses this experience to assist Veeam partners in their development of custom integrations leveraging Veeam APIs.

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Patricio Cerda is presently a Senior Solutions Architect based in Spain, specialized in microservices with focus on Kubernetes and Kasten. He has more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry, with wide experience working with Veeam, VMware SDDC solutions and AWS before joining Veeam Software in 2021.

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Italy Presales Manager at Veeam. 15+ years in IT infrastructure (mainly Virtualization, Storage and Backup/DR). Italy VMUG Board Member, vExpert, VCP-DCV and all-around IT/Tech enthusiast. Wannabe music nerd and Guitarist. (Retro)Gamer when time allows.

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Based in Prague, David is the Director of Customer Care at Veeam Software.

Senior Technical Partner Manager for the Northeast US. Co-creator and co-manager of the Veeam Hands-On Labs in North America. 30+ years of technology experience, including cloud and BCDR services. Host of Veeam Partner Perspectives Podcast.

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Core Solution­­­­ Architect who supports Veeam Sales Teams and customers across all verticals in the Central United States.  I am a certified Veeam Architect and have a TOGAF 9.2 certification.  I have two passions in life – camping in my Winnebago camper van, hiking, and Veeam!  When not hiking or in my camper van, I enjoy helping Veeam Sales Teams and customers across all verticals in the Central United States region build resilient backup solutions!

I admit that I occasionally combine architecting backups and camping in my van!

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Rasmus is the principal technologist in the Veeam Certification Services and a lover of all community efforts. He is well-regarded for creating the free community practice exams for the Veeam Certified Engineer program and his YouTube channel with education content on passing your exams. When not producing content, he is one of the leaders of the VMware User Group Denmark and the coach of the local children’s floorball team – Kolding Grizzlies.

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Stephan "Steve" Herzig has more than 27 years of experience in IT, primarily in the infrastructure sector. His main focus is on data protection, storage, virtualization and cloud technology. Stephan Herzig has worked for various companies as a systems engineer, architect and consultant. Since December 2018, he has been working as an Enterprise Technical Advisor at Veeam Software.

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Tim Hudson is a Principal Solutions Architect for the VCSP engineering team in North America. Tim spent his technical career before Veeam at Service Providers in the Midwest working with virtualization, storage, and network technologies. Today, Tim helps Veeam’s largest Cloud and Service Providers design, operate, and grow their Veeam-powered services.  Tim is a Veeam Certified Engineer and Architect.

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Brad is the Enterprise Systems Engineering Manager. He joined Veeam in 2018 as a SE. Prior to Veeam, he worked at EMC where he focused on database protection and recovery as well as helping companies leverage EMC’s emerging technologies. Brad is originally from Santa Fe, New Mexico, and is an alum of Rochester Institute of Technology. He currently lives in Golden, CO.

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Stijn is a system engineer based in Belgium, covering Belgium-Luxembourg. He has a strong focus on end-user based problems and therefore also solutions. He loves having an audience and is fan of events. For assisting more partners then he could handle he started to promote his www.veeamclick.be website.

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Wesley has more than 15 years of experience working with IT. He is now part of the Support Team in Veeam, focused on Public Cloud products. He has a blog where he writes about Veeam, VMware and Public Cloud.

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Brandon is an Advisor for the inside Systems Engineering team covering all of North America VCSP. He has been at Veeam for 6 years. Starting out, Brandon did not have a background in I.T. and instead came from a grocery store working as a customer service manager. After being given the chance to learn everything on the job, he has obtained numerous certifications including VMCA, VCP and a few public cloud certs as well. Brandon’s specialty is helping managed service providers offer Veeam-powered solutions for on prem and cloud native. His personal hobbies include making rap music and has even created a few Veeam-themed music videos including the infamous “where my backups at” music video shot live at the Veeam Alpharetta office. He also has a pitbull named COCO.

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Olivier Rossi is a National Solutions Architect on the North America Veeam Architects team. In his role he currently focuses on Storage Technologies, especially Object Storage, and NAS backups. Olivier is a Veeam Certified Solutions Architect and Systems Engineer.

When he is not helping other fellow Solutions Architect and Systems Engineer with customer opportunities, he spends his time creating and hosting advanced technical training for both Veeam employees, partners, and customers.

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Senior Systems Engineer with over 20 years of experience in IT Industry. Since 2001, he started his career at Sun Microsystems and mainly stretched his expertise in the area of storage and data management at EMC Corpration and NetApp. Currently, at Veeam Software, he is developing a wide range of technical enlightenment activities for alliance partners. Veeam Certified Architect (VMCA). Muti-Cloud Certified: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, Salesforce, Fujistu.

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Ali Salman, an EMEA Principal Architect at Veeam Software, has over 18 years of experience in managing virtualization, cloud operations, Microsoft and Unix platforms, databases, and applications. With multiple certifications, including VCAP, AWS Solutions Architect Professional, MCT, MCSE, and Oracle Certified Cloud Architect, Ali is passionate about IT architecture and design. He collaborates with clients to deliver successful outcomes, creating tailored solutions that meet their specific business objectives.

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Tim Smith is a Sr. Solutions Architect covering Emerging Technology for North America.  He has also been awarded the VMware vExpert award for the last 11 years and is the Cincinnati VMUG leader.  Tim has a strong desire to give back to the virtualization community by blogging, speaking, and mentoring others.

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Baptiste is a Senior Cloud System Engineer at Veeam for 4 years now and passionate about providing Veeam as a Service. With his blog baptistetellier.fr, Baptiste helps French cloud provider ecosystems to grow.

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Senior Systems Engineer at Veeam Software with more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry, many of which as a Microsoft Certified Trainer. He holds over 45 certifications on CheckPoint, Microsoft, Veeam and VMware technologies. In his spare time he plays electronic instruments, collects LEGO, prints 3D stuff.

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Technical expert with 20 years of experience in the IT industry, hold several certifications from VMware, AWS and CNCF. VMware vExpert 2020-2023, blogger at blog.backupnext.cloud and book author.

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Currently not in the MVP program

Stefan supports Veeam customers and partners with his team of Solution Architects throughout Europe to design data resilience solutions based on the Veeam Data Platform. While covering the whole platform, he specialized on enterprise databases and Microsoft 365 protection.

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