Bobby Allen currently serves as a Group Product Manager for Container Runtimes at Google Cloud. Bobby is a veteran of Intel, Bank of America, TIAA and three startups that were all successfully acquired. ServiceMesh was acquired by the former CSC (now DXC) in October 2013. Turbonomic was acquired by IBM in June 2021. CloudGenera was acquired by Proven Optics in August 2024. He went into corporate America after being an Intel fellow at the University of Michigan (MS in Computer Science and Engineering) and a Meyerhoff scholar at UMBC (BS in Computer Science).
He frequently advises CXO’s on cloud strategy and logical equivalents in cloud technology. His goal is to provide data-driven output to move decision-makers from information to clarity to insight. Bobby has been a featured speaker in various events and digital formats including VMworld, AWS re:Invent, Google Cloud NEXT, theCube, crowdchat, Kubecon, The CTOAdvisor, Gigaom’s Voices in the cloud and “Screaming in the Cloud” .
Bobby also serves as Stewardship Pastor of Wellspring Church – a Gospel centered, multi-ethnic community in Charlotte, NC. Bobby is a member of the preaching team at Wellspring and is responsible for technology, finances and facilities. He’s grateful to be part of the team that helped complete a multi-year building purchase and remodeling project – turning a former adult day-care care center into their current church home.