Tammy Van Hove is a Distinguished Engineer and executive leader in the IBM Cloud division where she is currently responsible for Cloud Foundry services and Enterprise enablement in IBM Cloud. Tammy is a veteran software developer and has held a number of roles in IBM including chief technologist for development of virtualization and cloud management solutions built with Openstack. A devoted wife and mother, she is based in Rochester, Minnesota where she and her husband, Reed, have raised 3 amazing daughters. She is an avid reader (loves novels, all kinds), "empty nester" (doesn't love that) and unwinds with her horses, long walks, and fishing during the (short) summer months.