Marcel de Vries
CTO at XpiritMarcel is the co-founder and CTO of Xpirit, a high-end consulting firm based in Hilversum, Netherlands. Marcel co-founded Xpirit in 2014 as a spin-off from Xebia Netherlands. Together with Xebia, they help customers with Digital Transformation, Agile Consulting, and Cloud-Native Software development with both Microsoft and open source products. Marcel spends most of his time exploring how new and emerging technologies, a shift in mindset, and a new way of work, can help organizations produce software faster. Helping organizations transform towards a high-speed, innovative, and productive organization has become his passion. Marcel loves to learn new technologies and teach others what he has learned. Besides his work as CTO of Xpirit, he also fulfills interim CTO roles at companies that want to transform. Marcel has specialized himself in the field of organizational leadership, Application Lifecycle Management, Continuous Delivery, DevOps, Cloud/Web-scale application architectures. Marcel is a frequent speaker at leading industry conferences. He has delivered sessions at events like Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft //Build, NDC, Microsoft TechDays, Visual Studio Live!, Devintersection, and Techorama to name a few. In his spare time, he also builds online courses for Pluralsight. Marcel has been awarded by Microsoft the Microsoft ALM MVP award for more than 15 consecutive years and he is a Microsoft Regional Director since 2008. You can always contact him to talk on topics like Leadership, DevOps, ALM, Cloud Computing, Microservices, Docker, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS.