Solutions Architect

Datacast Episode 88: Sales Engineering and Future of Work with Evan Cummack

Datacast Episode 88: Sales Engineering and Future of Work with Evan Cummack

Evan Cummack is the CEO of Fin.com. Before joining Fin in 2021, Evan spent 10 years at Twilio, contributing to the company’s incredible growth from Series B to IPO and beyond.

Evan was born and raised in a small coastal town on New Zealand’s North Island. Despite limited access to technical expertise, he developed an obsession not only with computers and software but with the unique competitiveness and creativity of the software industry. Enamored with Noah Wyle’s depiction of Steve Jobs in the 1999 TV movie Pirates of Silicon Valley, Evan was certain the pirate life was for him.

After studying Software Engineering and Business in New Zealand, Evan headed for Silicon Valley and quickly found a home at Twilio, which would go on to become one of the fastest-growing software companies in history. Evan considers his 10-year stint at Twilio as a “Ph.D. in SaaS,” learning from “the best software CEO in the world today.”

Datacast Episode 52: Graph Databases In Action with Dave Bechberger

Datacast Episode 52: Graph Databases In Action with Dave Bechberger

Dave Bechberger is known for his expertise in distributed data architecture and being a Graph Database SME.  He is known for his pragmatic approach to data architectures and for implementing large-scale distributed data architectures for big data analysis and data science workflows using various SQL and NoSQL data technologies. He is the author of "Graph Database in Action" by Manning publications and has spoken both nationally and internationally at conferences on subjects related to distributed data and graph databases.


Dave spent 20+ years developing, managing, and consulting on software projects and is currently a member of the Amazon Neptune service team. He works with both customers and engineering teams to simplify and speed the adoption of graph technologies.

Datacast Episode 19: Data Science in South Africa with Tristan Bergh

Datacast Episode 19: Data Science in South Africa with Tristan Bergh

Tristan Bergh is a systems thinker and data scientist living in Cape Town, South Africa. He studied aeronautical engineering before working as an enterprise software engineer. He worked as an architect on AFIS implementations in Southern Africa, moving into middleware for large fin-tech systems. He restarted his system modeling and machine learning consulting services through 2014, delivering predictive analytics models in healthcare and other domains.