WSO2 Vice President of Platform Evangelism Chris Haddad Earns Opensource.com 2014 People's Choice Award
Palo Alto, CA (PRWEB) April 23, 2014 -- WSO2 today announced that WSO2 Vice President of Platform Evangelism Chris Haddad has been honored with a People’s Choice Award as part of the Opensource.com 2014 Community Awards.
Every year Opensource.com awards community members who have excelled in contributing and sharing stories about how open source is changing the world. Based on voting by the community, the 2014 People’s Choice Award category recognizes favorite contributors to Opensource.com from 2013. For the full list of award winners, visit http://opensource.com/life/14/4/opensourcecom-2014-community-award-winners.
The 2014 People’s Choice Award recognized Chris for his role as an active Opensource.com contributor. The award highlighted his article, “10 ways to start contributing to open source,” which generated significant interest and conversation about how to start participating in an open source project.
The award profile also noted Chris’ involvement in hacking Apache open source since 1999; gaining committer status on Apache Axis in 2003; and ongoing commitment to encouraging DevOps, big data, platform as a service (PaaS) and cloud architecture best practices to optimize business value and agility. Most recently Chris published the article, “DevOps amplifies your open source credentials,” on Opensource.com, which can be found with his other articles at http://opensource.com/users/cobiacomm.
“As open source software continues to gain mainstream adoption, Opensource.com is serving a critical role in fostering a culture of collaboration to harness real-world experiences and tackle the business and technology challenges facing us today,” said Chris Haddad, WSO2 vice president of platform evangelism. “I am deeply honored to be recognized by the Opensource.com community for contributing to this effort.”
About Chris Haddad
Chris Haddad, WSO2 vice president of platform evangelism, works closely with developers, architects, and C-level executives to increase adoption of WSO2 open source technology, improve the middleware platform, and maximize customer value. Prior to joining WSO2, Chris led research teams as a research vice president at the Burton Group and Gartner advising Fortune 500 enterprise organizations and technology infrastructure vendors.
About Opensource.com
Opensource.com, a RedHat community website, is an online publication focused on how open source is applied to different areas including business, education, government, health, law and other disciplines of life. Its goal is to further the open source way by sharing the open source movement. The Opensource.com community of readers is made up of those who believe that open participation and sharing can tackle the business, social, environmental, and technological challenges facing us today. For more information, visit http://opensource.com.
About WSO2
WSO2 delivers on the promise of the connected business with the only completely integrated enterprise platform that enables businesses to build, integrate and manage their APIs, applications, and Web services on-premises, in the cloud, and on mobile devices. Leading enterprise customers worldwide rely on WSO2’s award-winning 100% open source platform and its robust governance and DevOps functionality for their mission-critical applications. Today, these businesses represent nearly every sector: health, financial, retail, logistics, manufacturing, travel, technology, telecom and more. Visit http://wso2.com to learn more, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
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