Philip Blanchar

Biography

A senior leader with over 15 years of experience in SaaS technical delivery and operations. A proven track record of leading cross-functional teams to design and deploy processes, tools and technologies that provide the foundation for extremely resilient maintenance and operations for SaaS software and mixed-model managed services. Vast experience with multiple delivery models deployed on bare metal and public/private cloud hyperscalers. Has built and led operations capability a number of times, meeting aggressive service availability, security, compliance, and quality requirements for Hosting and SaaS organizations for over 20 years.

Currently Sr. Director of SaaS Technical delivery and Operations at Nokia leading SaaS DevOps and SaaS Site Reliability Engineering. Previously has led similar functions at SaaS companies like Planview, Aurea SAP/Callidus, and the public sector including Texas.gov.

Philip holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from San Jose State University and a Master’s in Comp Sci from CSU Chico. Philip is known for his ability to lead, inspire and motivate teams to deliver results and build scalable, sustainable systems.