Chad Tindel is a seasoned solution architect who has spent his career at leading companies, including Elastic, HP, Amazon, MongoDB, Cloudera, and RedHat. Chad's expertise is multifaceted, encompassing customer engagement and technical pre-sales, with a strong foundation in operating systems, including notable contributions to the Linux kernel bonding driver. Renowned for his technical acumen and unwavering dedication to innovation in the tech industry, Chad specializes in many domains, including cloud computing, high-availability distributed computing, application security, NoSQL databases, storage, analytics, and big data. He also hosts the popular tech podcast "Can I get the software in blue?"