A Developer-Centric Approach to Modern Edge Data Management

Over the last two years at Actian, Lewis has led product marketing for the Actian Zen product line, targeting Edge environments such as branch and remote field offices, Mobile, and IoT. Lewis has been in various engineering, product management, marketing, business development and market research and analysis positions over the last 30 years, ranging from embedded database, signal analysis, and control systems to Enterprise middleware, ERP, and vertical applications. Prior to Actian, Lewis has been at a Director or above level at Hewlett Packard, Oracle, BEA, Sun Microsystems, and Motorola. Lewis spent the first decade of his career as a Research Engineer with SRI. Lewis graduated from the University of California Davis with a Bachelor and Master’s in Electrical Engineering.

Desmond Tan is the Senior Director of Product Engineering at Actian, leading research and development for the Actian Zen Edge Database team. He has over 20 years of experience in the database and embedded OEM industry, spanning research and development, product management and product support. Desmond earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from University of Texas at Austin.