Christophe Lombard is an IT Architect with 26 years of experience in designing and delivering complex solutions in both consultative and technical leadership with a specific focus on Cloud and IT Transformation. He has worked within large organizations like NEC, CSC, EMC, DELL, and more recently in a startup called Cloudreach. He has helped dozens of IT professionals and organizations achieve their business objectives through business and consultative engagements. During his career, he has served as a Network engineer, project manager, consultant and cloud architect.He started developing his knowledge in VMware in 2005 and his cloud expertise in 2015. He is passionate about the development of innovation in companies using new technologies: cloud, IaaS, infrastructure as code, microservices, and big data. His two areas of expertise opened a door for him at VMware in 2020 during the pandemic.As a Lead Cloud Solution Architect, Christophe helps drive VMware Cloud on AWS and VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery products adoption with key customers. He loves to learn, to enable and to educate people including customers, partners, and colleagues on all the cloud technologies he is focused on. Christophe holds an AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate certification, and has following VMware certifications: VMware Cloud (VCP-VMC) 2022, VCP & VCAP DCV, VCP & VCAP - Design NV 2021, and is vExpert 2021/2022. Christophe also promotes and shares his knowledge on VMware technology and cloud solutions on his blog: https://vminded.com.In his spare time, he enjoys working on his creative pursuits such as photography.