Jason K Jackson is the CTO and Director of Advanced Field Engineering for Pivotal in APJ, where he is responsible for helping the region’s most strategic customers successfully implement technology and process for cloud and “3rd Platform” services. Previously, he was the Director of Cloud Services APAC for Citrix, and was instrumental in the success of every large cloud deployment in APAC. Jason originally relocated to Asia when working with Cloudscaling, an early OpenStack startup company located in San Francisco (recently acquired by EMC), where he was key to the successful implementation of uCloud, of Korea Telecom, which at that time was one of the largest public clouds in Asia.

Jason is regarded as a technology leader, with demonstrated success in the design, development and deployment of large-scale computing solutions. He is an open source enthusiast who has authored large distributed systems, and received public recognition for his early source code contributions to leading system automation frameworks, graph database technologies, and web frameworks.