Dean Hallman is founder and CTO of WireSoft, LLC, which helps clients in insurance, financial services and network media industries, architect and build cloud, serverless and big data systems. He is the creator of Cloudbox, a collaborative, open source DevOps framework project that offers a foundation and methodology for building cloud and serverless applications of any kind. He is also the creator of Pathfinder.js, an innovative hybrid programming paradigm that combines the best aspects of functional and object-oriented programming. Dean has co-founded or was an early entrant to several successful startups, including Stingray Software, Pronto.com, Realgravity.com and WireSoft.io. He holds a BS in electrical and software engineering from the University of South Carolina, and an MS in computer engineering from North Carolina State University.