Paula is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Syntasso; her previous roles include Senior Director of Tanzu Global Education at VMware, Senior Director of Platform Services EMEA at Pivotal and Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of CloudCredo. Working in the IT industry for over 20 years, Paula is passionate about community, diversity and inclusion and has spoken publicly at several conferences, including DevOps Enterprise Summit, QCon and the LeadDev conference. Paula is part of the organizing committee for Kubernetes Community Days UK and DevOps Days London, and also organizes the London Platform User Group.