Sam Ramji is Chief Strategy Officer of DataStax. A 25-year veteran of the Silicon Valley and Seattle technology scenes, Sam has helped build twomulti-billion dollar markets (API Management at Apigee and Enterprise Service Bus at BEA Systems)and redefined Microsoft’s open source and Linux strategy from “extinguish” to “embrace”. He is nerdyabout open source, platform economics, middleware, and cloud computing with emphasis ondeveloper experience and enterprise software. He is an advisor to multiple companies includingAccenture, Insight Engines, and the Linux Foundation. Sam received his B.S. in Cognitive Science fromUCSD in 1994 and is still excited about artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and cognitive psychology.