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People November 2021

The IT industry is in a constant state of flux, and with it, company executives. Every month, we introduce you here to people who are taking on a new professional challenge.
E-3 Magazine
December 10, 2021
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Chip Childers joins Puppet

Chip Childers was announced as the new chief architect of Puppet. Childers has more than 20 years of technology experience in large-scale computing and open source software. He has very deep knowledge of the vast cloud-native ecosystem and will play a central role in supporting Puppet's research and development team to achieve its platform and product goals.

"The infrastructure automation space has high growth potential, and Puppet's independence and brand credibility were the main reasons for my decision to take on this role", says Childers. "I am very excited to join Puppet and help shape the next generation of products and services that will lead our customers into the future."

Childers co-founded the Cloud Foundry Foundation, where he served as Chief Technology Officer for more than five years. In 2020, he assumed the role of Executive Director, previously held by Puppet's CTO Abby Kearns. Earlier in his career, Childers was Vice President of Product Strategy at CumuLogic.

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