Shawn’s passion for building small teams focused on bringing emerging technologies to market drove him to co-found and lead Aspen Mesh. With two decades of experience building application networking and security products in companies like Cisco, LineRate Systems and F5, he had seen enterprises transition from hardware to software as they demanded to be more agile. As applications continue to evolve, he envisions a world where developers are unencumbered by infrastructure – and manageability, security and control the business demands are provided by a service mesh.

Andrew co-founded Aspen Mesh because he observed containerized microservices making communication resiliency ever more important, but also more challenging to build and manage at scale. His software and hardware engineering background is in communication and networking including building and standardizing the nascent Interplanetary Internet and adding core datapath programmability to LineRate, a successful Boulder-based startup. He loves the exhilaration of fixing the impossible bug.

Randy is drawn to the intersection of people and technology and loves the thrill of building something from scratch. In the course of his career, he’s worked in product and marketing roles at a range of companies – big and small – from Twitter and Accenture to LambdaNet and Gnip. When he’s not talking to companies about the security and observability of their microservices, you’ll find him skiing or playing soccer with his kids.

Neeraj is a technical leader with a proven record of delivering outcomes in fast-paced and early-stage organizations. His passion for startups and solving complex distributed system problems led him to co-found Aspen Mesh where he leads the engineering efforts as Chief Architect. He’s an open source enthusiast and is currently Istio Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) member and Product Security Working Group Lead. When not working on technical challenges, you can find him playing racquetball, cooking or trying out new restaurants.

Prudence is a technology professional with a proven track record of delivering value based outcomes for customers with a hyper focus on ensuring an exemplary customer experience. With over a decade of experience building best in class services teams in the software industry she has a track record of helping customers achieve their goals by providing innovative solutions across product, service, support and customer success. When not leading support, professional services, training and customer success she enjoys sailing, hiking and playing VR games.

Mary brings experience leading cutting edge teams that leverage open source solutions, create reusable frameworks and components as the foundation for software products, and drive initiatives to adopt new technologies and architectures. For service mesh—or any other technology—she believes every high quality solution must delight and exceed expectations. While Mary’s not leading our team of engineers, you can find her exploring the many beautiful hiking trails near Boulder.

Scott builds and leads effective data analytics and data science teams. He’s most interested in enabling clever problem solvers, technical experts and passionate story-tellers to address interesting business questions with data. He has a track record of contributing to data strategy and data product creation and evolution.