Ward Bekker

Ward Bekker is currently a Senior Principal Solutions Engineer at Grafana Labs. Previously, they were a Senior Solutions Engineer at Hortonworks from September 2016 to September 2019. Prior to that, Ward was with Mobiquity, Inc - Europe from September 2015 to August 2016 as a Solutions Engineer / Solutions Architect. Ward has also been a Technical Lead & Product Owner at TTY Internet Solutions from November 2007 to September 2015 and a .Net Developer at Tam Tam from January 2002 to December 2004.

Ward Bekker has a BA in Interaction Design from De Haagse Hogeschool / The Hague University of Applied Sciences. Ward also has a Havo from Mgr. Frencken College, Oosterhout (NB). Ward is certified by Roman Pichler/ScrumAlliance as a Certified Scrum Product Owner and by Jeff Sutherland/ScrumAlliance as a Certified ScrumMaster. Ward is also certified by Erlang Solutions as an Erlang OTP Express Course Instructor and by Microsoft as a Microsoft Certified Professional. Finally, they are certified by Franklin Covey in Sales Training - Qualifying Opportunities.

Some of their coworkers include Austin Freels - Solutions Engineer, Ricardo Lupo - Director, Solutions Engineering, and James Musselwhite - Solution Engineer. Ward Bekker reports to Dave Russell, VP, Solutions Engineering.