Patrick Chanezon leads the Cloud Developer Advocacy team in Developer Relations at Microsoft, helping developers and technology communities achieve more with AI on Microsoft Cloud.

Previously, at Docker Inc., he helped to build Docker, the world’s leading software container platform, for developers and sysadmins.

He helped establish open source and standards organizations such as Open Container Initiative, Cloud Native Computing Foundation or Green Software Foundation.

Software developer and storyteller, he spent 8 years building platforms at Netscape & Sun, then 19 years evangelizing platforms at Google, VMware & Microsoft. His main professional interest is in building and kickstarting the network effect for these wondrous two-sided markets called Platforms.

He has worked on platforms for AI, Cloud, Distributed Systems, Web, Social, Commerce, Ads, and Portals.