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Graham Hayes
Principal Engineer

Graham is a previous PTL of Designate, and a member of the OpenStack Technical Committee.

Graham worked previously as part of the DNSaaS team in HP Helion, and the DNSaaS team in HP Public Cloud before that. As part of this team he was responsible for operating a publicly accessible deployment of Designate, while working on new features for Designate, and developing a Designate in a box product for private cloud use.

Graham then lead the Kubernetes HA, Scale, and Performance Team at SUSE.

He then worked for Verizon Wireless as a Distingushed Member of Technical Staff, leading the System Operations team running the Verizon Cloud Platform, a global OpenStack cloud used within Verizon for NFV telco apps.

He is currently a Principal Engineer in Microsoft Azure, working on a team dedicated to finding the limits of Azure and advocating on behalf of customers to internal product teams.

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