Chad Tindel is the field CTO and VP of worldwide solution architecture at ngrok, the unified ingress platform for developers. He is a seasoned solution architect who has spent his career at leading companies, including Amazon, Elastic, MongoDB, and RedHat. Chad's expertise is multifaceted, encompassing customer engagement and technical pre-sales, with a strong foundation in operating systems, including notable contributions to the Linux kernel bonding driver. He has also played a key role in high-availability solutions, as evidenced by his architectural work on HP's Serviceguard product. Renowned for his technical acumen and unwavering dedication to innovation in the tech industry, Chad specializes in many domains, including cloud computing, high-availability distributed computing, application security, NoSQL databases, storage, analytics, and big data. Tune into his podcast, Can I get the software in blue?