Summary
Campbell Vertesi is a seasoned technical executive and software/infrastructure engineer based in Berlin, currently serving as Global CTO for Microsoft’s Red Hat and Citrix partnerships, where he has driven joint engineering strategy and delivered 50%+ YoY partnership growth for three consecutive years. With 14 years in product and engineering leadership and over 25 years of technical experience, he blends hands-on expertise in containers, Kubernetes, serverless and cloud-native infrastructure with strategic go-to-market planning for AI on Microsoft Cloud. He has led cross-company engineering engagements for major enterprise customers like Volkswagen and the United Nations, turning industry-first proofs of concept into market-facing solutions. A longtime open-source advocate and former founder of agencies focused on Drupal and web architecture, he consistently contributes architectures and patterns back to communities to scale impact beyond single projects. Unusually for a technology leader, he holds advanced training in voice performance and performs as an opera singer, a discipline he credits for honing presentation and team-leading skills. Pragmatic, cross-disciplinary, and creative, he excels at bridging deep technical design with commercial outcomes across large partner ecosystems.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Music Voice Performance major, Bachelors Music Voice Performance major at Indiana University Bloomington
Masters Music Voice Performance Major, Masters Music Voice Performance Major at University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
English, French, Italian, German