Achim Christ

As senior technical consultant for IBM Systems I help international clients deploy, modernize and efficiently manage hybrid cloud infrastructure for big data and machine learning use cases. I head service development, delivery and training for various strategic IBM Storage products across EMEA. I am an expert on software-defined storage and scale-out file and object solutions, specialized in automation and cloud orchestration. Furthermore, I am training instructor, conference speaker, open source maintainer, and author of numerous books, papers and articles.