Deepak Giridharagopal is CTO at Portland’s own Puppet. He is a long time Puppeteer who has worked on a huge variety of projects from Puppet itself, to creating PuppetDB, to helping launch newer open source projects like Bolt and Lyra. Over his career, he has delivered large-scale solutions, both hosted and on premises, using a diverse set of techniques and tools. He believes building stuff is good, but building the right stuff is more interesting and challenging.