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About Rodrigo Flores

Rodrigo Flores is Managing Director of the Accenture Cloud Platform (ACP) in charge of Architecture, Product Management and Engineering innovation. Currently he leads a team of 400 people delivering the service to 3000 clients and $400M of cloud spend. The Accenture Cloud Platform is a hybrid cloud service that delivers a variety of providers such as Amazon, Azure, Google, VMware and Microsoft-based private clouds. Additionally, Cloud Management Services such as patching, security, backup, hardening, monitoring and security. This includes cloud brokering, security and cloud optimization services.

Additionally, Rodrigo frequently works with Global 2000 enterprises to help them in their cloud transformation and migration projects. These engagements include DevOps, financial, security and program reviews as well as one-on-one coaching and consulting with C-suite executives.

Prior to Accenture, Rodrigo worked at Cisco in the cloud software business group as CTO. He founded newScale (acquired by Cisco) the service catalog and cloud management platform pioneer from 2000--2011.

Links Referenced: 

• Accenture main site: http://accenture.com/
• Rodrigo’s blog “Working Class CTO”: https://workingclasscto.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roflores/
• Twitter: @rfflores