Nigel Kersten, Field CTO at Puppet, leads a team of engineers to build greater knowledge around how customers around the world are using Puppet to ensure the company is building pragmatic products for current and future customers. In addition, his team focuses on building out service strategies and finding new opportunities and geographies to expand Puppet’s commercial footprint.

Nigel brings a worldwide perspective to the challenges some of the biggest companies on the plant have with infrastructure automation, continuous deployment, compliance and DevOps. Nigel has served in a range of executive roles at Puppet across product and engineering over the last 9 years and came to Puppet from the Google SRE organisation, where he was responsible for one of the largest Puppet deployments in the world.