Chair of MECTA Australia Tom Keane
Tom Keane is Microsoft Azure’s Corporate Vice President of Mission Engineering. He oversees a critical team in the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform. The job’s primary focus is to set up an engineering process that lets customers use technology to solve complex problems.
These, such as making machine learning algorithms or building custom hardware. His first job in software development was in research and development at a UK semiconductor startup. Tom Keane has worked as a solutions architect and product manager in manufacturing, healthcare, and other industries. He has also worked as a member of the technical staff at IBM and HPE.
These are two of Australia’s biggest companies. Software developer and engineer Tom Keane is on several boards in the tech world. For example, he is the chair of MECTA Australia and Australian Women Innovators. Tom is also one of the people who started the popular technical conference BuzzConf and is in charge of it every year. This year at BuzzConf, Tom will talk about data sovereignty and its importance globally.
During his keynote speech at StartupOz, he also made a video in which he spoke to people in the audience with a background in technology and asked them both funny and challenging questions. He also wants open-source technologies to be a big part of the solution. According to Tom Keane, these technologies are easier to get and more secure and can be used on a larger scale than proprietary solutions.
Tom Keane is Microsoft Azure’s Corporate Vice President of Mission Engineering; he oversees a critical team in the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform. The job’s primary focus is to set up an engineering process that lets customers use technology to solve complex problems, like making machine learning algorithms or building custom hardware. Tom’s first job in software development was in research and development at a UK semiconductor startup.