As VP Hyperscale Computing, Christian 'Kiko' Reis is responsible for Canonical's next-generation server enablement & automation programs, including the bare-metal provisioning tool Metal as a Service (MaaS). Kiko is also responsible for our Ubuntu Storage product family. 

Kiko's background is in system architecture, performance analysis and software engineering. He has been a driver of alternative architectures on Linux for a long time; in fact, Kiko was VP  Engineering for Linaro, the ARM Linux development consortium, for 3 years prior to his current position. 

Kiko lives in São Paulo, Brazil, and holds an MSc in Software Engineering from USP, a top-ranked Brazilian postgrad faculty.