Jason Hoffman is the Head of Cloud Technology at Ericsson where he's responsible for product architecture and engineering. Previously he was the Head of Product Line, Ericsson Cloud System and Platforms in Business Unit Cloud and IP. Prior to that he was a founder and the CTO at Joyent, an early high-performance cloud IaaS and software provider, where he ran product, engineering, operations, and commercial management for nearly a decade. He is considered to be one the pioneers of large-scale cloud computing, in particular the use of container technologies, asynchronous high-concurrency runtimes, and converged server, storage, and networking systems. Jason is also an angel investor, strategy and execution advisor, venture and private equity advisor, and on the boards of the Wordpress Foundation and New Context, a Digital Garage company. Jason has a B.S. and M.S. from UCLA and a Ph.D. from UCSD.