14 Kyndryls Awarded Prestigious Distinction for Driving
Global Innovation and Customer Impact
NEW YORK, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl
(NYSE: KD), the world's largest IT infrastructure services
provider, today announced 14 new honorees representing its
inaugural class of Distinguished Engineers. Kyndryl's Distinguished
Technical Program recognizes exceptional technical professionals
and their groundbreaking contributions in service of customers in
the fields of engineering, programming, infrastructure services,
cyber-resilience, and technical design.
These recipients join a distinctive and exceptional group
of talented leaders already at the company, with Kyndryl's
Distinguished Technical Program now comprised of more than 80
Kyndryl employees worldwide.
"The technologies we deploy are critical, but how we deploy them
is where the magic happens. These leaders are the orchestrators of
that magic," said Antoine Shagoury,
Chief Technology Officer of Kyndryl. "Each exemplifies the values
we prize most – driving technical advancements that put Kyndryl at
the heart of progress for our customers and the essential work we
do to run their operations in the most modern and secure way."
An important element of Kyndryl's Distinguished Technical
Program is a commitment to expanding technical skills through
mentorship. All members of the 2022 class will contribute time and
insights as part of a collaboration with the international
non-profit organization, TEACH, to bring hands-on science
activities and STEM courses to children facing medical conditions
and disabilities.
Kyndryl's 2022 class includes the following technical leaders
from seven countries:
Ana Maria
Bezerra (Brazil)
for advancements in hybrid cloud technology and cross-architectural
solutions, and as a steward of mentorship for the managed services
technical community in Latin
America.
Kayla
Broussard (United
States) for technical leadership and expertise in across the
hybrid multi-cloud solutions, cyber-resiliency, and data storage in
the travel and consumer industry.
Karen Cheng (Canada) for significant technical expertise
and innovation for global advanced delivery and automation.
Nick
Drouet (United
Kingdom) for inventing novel discovery tooling and
processes, and ongoing leadership on critical infrastructure cloud
migrations for major global banking and public sector
customers.
Herve
Durand (France)
for strategic leadership and technical capabilities in hybrid
multi-cloud environments and deep expertise in infrastructure
skills-building and development.
Jason
Jackson (United
States) for creating mission-critical solutions for the
industrials sector, and delivering a first-of-a-kind,
cross-industry customer solution for 5G private cellular, edge
computing, and security services.
Mike
Lyons (Australia)
for technical leadership and innovation in critical enterprise
network architecture and transformations.
Keisuke
Maeda (Japan) for
ongoing leadership and innovation in sustainable building practices
that analyze physical and digital data about individual buildings
to reduce their carbon footprint.
Sam
McConnell (United
States) for leadership on secure cloud migration, leading
full integration lifecycles from discovery to final analysis of
applications.
John
Shuman (United
States) for technical leadership in the fields of storage,
capacity planning, and hardware architecture for mainframe systems
and building a growing community program of mainframe
architects.
Kitty Smith (United States) for technical innovation across
the retail and transportation sectors and establishing a new site
reliability engineering professional development program.
Vugranam Sreedhar (United
States) for contributions in software engineering for
security and compliance, cloud, data science, artificial
intelligence, blockchain and distributed systems.
Mike
Treadway (United
States) for contributions in integrated application
engineering, architecture, and novel implementations of data
analytics technologies.
Sarah B.
Nelson (United
States), Kyndryl's first Distinguished Designer (DD),
recognized for outstanding leadership and expertise in
human-centered design strategy and implementation, including design
research and strategy, user experience (UX), and service
design.
Across technology communities, the Distinguished Engineer title
is conferred on those who are recognized experts and thought
leaders in their areas of specialty and have achieved noteworthy
technical accomplishments. The role of the Distinguished Designer
(DD), a newly added recognition in Kyndryl's Distinguished
Technical Program, acknowledges today's changing business
environments and increased demand for enterprise design
capabilities and expertise.
The Kyndryl honorees have demonstrated
significant contributions towards solving industry-wide challenges
and enabling customer innovation and success. Together, they
represent the values and expertise that Kyndryl offers within and
beyond its company to continuously transform the businesses and
communities the company serves through ongoing advancements,
developments, and research in their respective fields.
To learn more about the new members of Kyndryl's 2002
Distinguished Technical Program, please visit:
https://www.kyndryl.com/us/en/news/distinguished-technical-program
About Kyndryl
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is the world's largest IT infrastructure
services provider. The company designs, builds, manages, and
modernizes the complex, mission-critical information systems that
the world depends on every day. Kyndryl's nearly 90,000 employees
serve over 4,000 customers in more than 60 countries around the
world, including 75 percent of the Fortune 100. For more
information, visit www.kyndryl.com.
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