Elisabeth Hendrickson is the Vice President, Data R&D, at Pivotal and is responsible for the development of big data solutions. Prior to that, she worked with Pivotal Labs and held leadership positions in Pivotal's Cloud R&D organization.

Elisabeth brings a combination of agile, cloud, and devops experience to Pivotal's big data products. Under her leadership, the R&D teams have successfully transitioned to an agile, iterative approach, shipping releases of enterprise-class data products on a frequent cadence.

Early on, Elisabeth worked at Sybase, where she developed a love of all things Data.

Elisabeth is a recognized as a leader in agile software development and received the prestigious Gordon Pask Award from the Agile Alliance. She is also the author of Explore It! from Pragmatic Bookshelf.

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