Chris Smith's actual job title is "interim senior associate vice president of engineering operations world-wide, North American division".

Prior to Pulumi, Chris held engineering roles at Google and Microsoft. At Google, Chris led the .NET, Ruby, and PHP tooling efforts for Google Cloud Platform; as well as the Google Code turndown. At Microsoft he worked on F# and several releases of Visual Studio. He is the author of Programming F# by O'Reilly.

Chris is on a quest to make it easier to write software and looks for any opportunity he can to expand his collection of lawn gnomes.

Eric Rudder is Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Pulumi.

Prior to founding Pulumi, Eric served in executive leadership roles at Microsoft Corporate, including Executive Vice President of Advanced Technology, Executive Vice President of Advanced Strategy, and Chief Technical Strategy Officer. After joining in 1988, Eric contributed to Microsoft's systems development strategy across networking, operating systems and developer tools, creating the Visual Studio product line as its General Manager. Eric subsequently led the establishment and growth of Microsoft's Server and Tools business and served as Vice President of Technical Strategy, advising Microsoft's Chief Architect and Chairman Bill Gates on Microsoft's technical architecture and processes.

Eric graduated with honors from Brown University in 1988.

Joe Duffy is Co-Founder and CEO of Pulumi.

Prior to founding Pulumi, Joe held leadership roles at Microsoft in the Developer Division, Operating Systems Group, and Microsoft Research, most recently as Director of Engineering and Technical Strategy for Microsoft's developer tools. In this role, Joe led key company-wide technical initiatives, in addition to managing the groups building the C#, C++, Visual Basic, and F# languages, IoT, and all Visual Studio IDE, compiler, and static analysis services. Joe created and built teams around several successful distributed programming platforms, initiated and executed on efforts to take .NET open source and cross-platform, and was instrumental in Microsoft's overall open source transformation.

Joe has over 20 years of professional software experience, has written two books, and still loves to code every day.

Luke Hoban is the CTO at Pulumi where he is re-inventing how developers program the cloud.

Prior to Pulumi, Luke held product and engineering roles at AWS and Microsoft. At AWS, Luke led product definition and business planning for EC2 instance families including GPU, FPGA and T2 compute offerings. At Microsoft, Luke co-founded TypeScript (the fastest growing development language), developed Go support for Visual Studio Code (the most used developer tool for Go), was part of the design teams for ECMAScript and C#, and served as Technical Assistant to the CVP of the Developer Division contributing to corporate strategy and execution for the developer audience.

Luke is passionate about building tools and platforms to enable and empower developers, and is a deep believer in the transformative potential of the cloud.

Sean Gillespie is a Staff Software Engineer at Pulumi.

Prior to Pulumi, Sean worked at Microsoft where he was responsible for performance and reliability of the garbage collector powering the .NET Framework and .NET Core. He also worked to retarget the Microsoft X++ compiler to .NET IL.

Sean is passionate about the intersection of languages, runtimes, and developer productivity. He is inspired by programming systems that make complex ideas understandable and accessible to all.