GABE MONROY

Gabe Monroy is the Chief Product Officer at DigitalOcean, responsible for Product Management, Design, User Research, and Engineering for customer-facing product teams.Gabe was formerly VP of the Azure Developer Experience group in Microsoft’s Developer Division, where he was responsible for the application-centric services and tools on Azure, including compute services, platform services, and developer tools and SDKs. Gabe was the founder and CTO of Deis, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2017. After joining Microsoft, he started Azure Kubernetes Service, which is the fastest growing compute service in Azure history.

As an early contributor to Docker and Kubernetes, and a founding member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Gabe has deep experience in open source software and cloud native technology. Gabe speaks frequently at industry events on cloud services, distributed systems, and software development and operations.