Deepak Giridharagopal is CTO at Puppet, which builds open-source infrastructure automation and orchestration tools for the masses. He is a long time developer and systems engineer who has worked on a wide variety of projects. At Puppet, he's helped build Puppet (the open source project) itself, created PuppetDB, and helped launch newer projects like Bolt. Prior to Puppet, he was an early engineer at Dell/MessageOne, working on large-scale email indexing systems.