Heather McKelvey is Basho Technologies Vice President of Engineering and has more than 20 years of experience leading and managing enterprise software teams. Most recently, she was the CTO and SVP of engineering at GoGrid, where she led architecture and development of cloud services, inclusive of compute, SDN, storage and orchestration services. Prior to that, McKelvey was VP of engineering and operations at Mashery, an API management SaaS running in the cloud. Before joining Mashery, McKelvey held senior positions at MarketLive, Netscape, Compaq and Ingres. McKelvey works closely with the executive, product and engineering teams to deliver new services and capabilities that will further expand the attractiveness of Riak to companies seeking to harness NoSQL technologies for their unstructured data needs.