Mayur Pipaliya

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Mayur Pipaliya (MP) is known for his expertise in trusted computing and identity-first infrastructure for hybrid cloud and AI. Across 19+ years, he has charted a trailblazing path, from being an accidental entrepreneur running a data center company in the pre-cloud era to founding Splunk's Global Forward Deployed Software Engineering (FDSE) team and leading platform engineering, DevRel/DX, CNCF OTel open source, and AI/ML marketplace functions that helped scale data products to $4B in revenue. MP advises enterprises on modernizing data centers and multi-cloud, multi-agent strategy, and volunteers with DEFCON, OWASP, null Security, Columbia's Justice Through Code, and Habitat for Humanity. When not firefighting, he loves trail running and biking in the Bay Area.