
JT Thykattil
VP, Research Director
JT has driven technology adoption, architecture, and sales focusing on cloud architecture, hybrid data center technologies, high-performance computing, FinOps, cloud economics, IT technology services, corporate development, and strategic alliances. His 20-plus years of experience include serving as director of solutions architecture at a Bain Capital private analytics firm, customer engineering at Google Cloud, and solutions engineering at Cox Communications. Additionally, JT has held architecture and engineering roles in financial services and capital market organizations including Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Group), Citadel, DRW Trading, ABN AMRO Bank, and Exelon. He has also been a featured speaker at VMware Explore, IBM Think, Edge Computing Expo, Cloud Expo, GDS Innovation Summit, and Data Center World.
JT coauthored various publications in 2015 at Charter Communications that include “Applying cost-effective, off-premises cloud-based analytics” with coauthors from Kellogg’s and SAP and “Taking Customers’ Businesses to the Next Level with Ultra-Stable Cloud Services on XIV Storage Technology” with a coauthor from IBM.