Patrick Chanezon joined VMware in 2011 in San Francisco, to create the developer relations team, and make VMware and Cloud Foundry the first choice of developers moving their apps to the cloud. Previously, he worked at Google from 2005 to 2011, where he managed the Cloud and Tools Developer Relations team. Previously he has been a Developer Advocate, building and growing developer ecosystems for HTML5, OpenSocial, Google Checkout and the AdWords API. Previously he spent 5 years at Sun Microsystems as a software architect working on Sun Portal Server, blogs and syndication feeds, and received the CEO award for helping launch blogs.sun.com. Previously he spent 5 years at AOL and Netscape where he managed the MyNetscape Portal, and 2 years at Accenture as a Lotus Notes guru. He co-created the ROME open source project, and the OSSGTP group in France.
Apart from programming and reading books, his main interest in life is spending time with his wife and 3 kids.
Patrick received a M.S. in computer science from Ecole Centrale de Lyon where he graduated in 1993.
