Andre Atkinson is a Lead Solution Architect based in Perth, WA, partnering with organizations across Australia and New Zealand to modernize their infrastructure. Specializing in storage, data protection, and automation, helping technology leaders move from reactive, high-risk environments to resilient, efficient operations that scale with the business.

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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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David Bewernick has been working in the IT industry since 2004 and is based in northern Germany. He focused primarily on file services, virtualization and storage systems before joining Veeam in 2017 as a Systems Engineer. Today he is part of the EMEA Solutions Architect Team with a specialization in cloud services like M365 and Azure.

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Patricio Cerda is presently a Lead 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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Adam is a 12-year Veeam veteran. Adam spent several years in Customer Support where he worked the highest technical roles, including becoming the first American Tier 3 Support Engineer. After growing the team, Adam moved to a role in the SA org where he focuses on Performance & Optimizations as well as developing and maintaining the Veeam Health Check and the Veeam Calculators. 

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Ricardo Conzatti is a Senior Systems Engineer at Veeam in Brazil. He holds multiple technical certifications across Veeam, VMware, and Microsoft technologies and has been awarded the VMware vExpert for 10 years. Ricardo is also a former vExpert PRO, VMUG leader and VMware PSO consultant. He enjoys giving back to the community by speaking at events such as VUG and VMUG, sharing technical knowledge on his blog, and automating everything he can with scripts.

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Luca Dell’Oca is a Principal Architect at Veeam Software, where he collaborates with leading cloud service providers and telecommunication companies to help them maximize the potential of Veeam technologies for cloud and service provider environments. With over a decade at Veeam, Luca focuses on designing resilient, scalable, and secure solutions that enable partners to deliver world‑class data protection services.

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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 three 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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Ryan is a previous Enterprise Architect, now Security Engineer based out of Las Vegas, NV and has been with Veeam for 4 years.  Prior to joining Veeam, Ryan worked at an MSP based out of Northern California for over 10 years, which helped gain him the vast industry experience he has today.  Primarily focusing on security, infrastructure, virtualization, public cloud, and data protection, he holds several industry certifications including VCIX-DCV, VMCA, CC and Sec+, and multiple Azure certs.

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Senior Cloud Systems Engineer at Veeam Software with nearly two decades in IT, focused on enabling Veeam Cloud & Service Provider Program partners to evolve from backup providers into cyber-resiliency service providers. Passionate about aligning technology with business outcomes, helping service providers design resilient platforms, strengthen security posture, and deliver modern data protection services that customers can rely on.

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Systems Engineer at Veeam Software, specializing in partner-led enterprise, cloud, and SaaS architectures. VMCE and CCSP certified, with 10 years experience in presales, solution design, and technical enablement - focused on Veeam and cloud security. Always exploring new tech in my homelab.

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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 than 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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Systems Engineer at Veeam in Germany with over 15 years experience in IT.

Before joining Veeam in 2023, Max used to work as a Consultant and had been part of the Veeam Legends and Vanguards. Besides his daily work, he is active in various IT communities and helps others or shares his knowledge. Max is VMCE and VMCA certified.

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Brandon is a Solutions Architect who specializes in educating VCSPs to deliver Veeam-powered BaaS services through Veeam Data Cloud. 

He has been at Veeam for 8 years and is also a content creator with a Veeam how-to channel Quick & Nerdy. As the token rapper for Veeam Software, Brandon opened the 2025 Global Keynote in Las Vegas with a Veeam rap. In his free time, he enjoys martial arts, yoga, and his two brindle Pit bulls. Certifications include VMCA, VCP, and Azure.

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Chris McDonald is a Principal Systems Engineer, based in Toronto, partnering with enterprise organizations to build real‑world cyber resilience. Passionate about data resilience and ransomware protection, he’s known for a practical, no‑nonsense approach (and the occasional bit of humour) that turns complex challenges into clear, actionable strategies. When not working, Chris enjoys watching hockey, baseball, and playing classic / retro video games.

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Marvin Michalski is a Systems Engineer at Veeam Software and a certified VMCE and VMCA with a strong focus on data protection, virtualization, storage, and cyber-resilience. With a background in system integration and real-world infrastructure operations, he is passionate about simplifying complex backup and recovery topics. Marvin actively contributes to the community by sharing best practices, lessons learned, and practical guidance for modern data protection.

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Michael is a Solution Engineer supporting Veeam Data Cloud M365 & Entra ID across EMEA. Michael joined Veeam in 2024 after amassing over a decade of experience working with Veeam’s products as an architect, consultant, and service provider. Prior to joining Veeam, Michael co-led the Cloud City thematic Veeam User Group, and the UK Veeam User Group, and still enjoys contributing to the wider community, whether blogging or speaking at events.

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Youssef, an Egyptian Principal Systems Engineer, has been part of the Veeam team in Saudi Arabia for three years. With over fifteen years of experience in the IT industry, he has a robust background in Microsoft products (Exchange, SharePoint, Lync), Virtualization (VMware, Nutanix, Citrix), Databases and networking, Veritas, Commvault, Linux, SAP ERP systems, AI, and DevOps technologies. He is also skilled in hardware systems such as Tapes, Storage, and Servers.

Youssef's passion for computers and systems began early, with Doom, SKY, and Prince being his favorite games. He built his first PC at the age of six. He believes IT is a service that helps people improve their lives.  In his leisure time, Youssef enjoys playing video games and cooking with his two daughters.

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Sean R. Simpson is a Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer with more than 20 years of experience in enterprise infrastructure, disaster recovery, and data protection architecture. He specializes in designing resilient backup and recovery strategies across hybrid environments including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, virtualized infrastructure, and Microsoft 365.

Currently at Veeam Software, Sean partners with Cloud Service Providers, Managed Service Providers, and enterprise customers to architect scalable backup, recovery, and cyber-resilience solutions. Known for his consultative technical approach, he works closely with sales teams and customer stakeholders to translate complex infrastructure challenges into practical, high-value solutions.

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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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Based in New Zealand, Ben Thomas is a Senior Solutions Engineer specializing in Veeam Data Cloud Vault. As a Microsoft MVP for Windows Server and Azure Hybrid and a former Veeam Vanguard, he brings extensive experience in bridging complex on-premises and cloud environments. He leverages his deep technical knowledge of the Microsoft ecosystem and Veeam's cloud offerings to help enterprises design, optimize, and secure their modern data protection strategies.

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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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David is a Sr. Solutions Architect at Veeam based in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Throughout a 20-year career in technology, David has worked as an end-user in operations, an architect at various integration partner-resellers, and has spent the last 8+ years at Veeam.

Aside from designing Veeam solutions for customers across North American, David is the "UX guy" for the Veeam Calculators project -- trying to make the tool(s) as seamless and functional as possible.

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

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Michael Wisniewski is Sr Sales Engineer based in Hollywood, CA specializing in Data Security and AI as well as Public Cloud. He has been at Veeam for 4 years supporting customers in the Southern California and Desert Region and helping them solve their data protection challenges and make their businesses more resilient.

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