Alex Degaston is the Technical Branch Manager of IPS AG for their offices in Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. He’s originally from California, USA, and has lived/worked in the USA, Europe, and Asia in the IT industry for Ford Motor Company, McDonald’s, Pepsi, Zurich Insurance, AIG, Microsoft, Carnival Cruise Lines, Toyota, US federal government Department of Treasury, KPMG, and other enterprises. Before joining IPS, he started computer programming in 1983, earned a Bachelor’s degree from a university in the USA, and has worked in roles such as Software Developer, Analyst, Team Lead, Project Manager, Development Manager, DevOps engineer, Lead DevOps engineer, and Solutions Architect with experience on a wide variety of platforms from IBM, Borland, Oracle, Microsoft, and other vendors with most of his recent focus on end-to-end solutions architecture/development utilizing Cloud platforms and industry best practices. In March 2023, he became a Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert. He’s lived in Vietnam for nearly 3 years and has basic language skills in Vietnamese, Polish, German, and Spanish, in addition to being a native English speaker.