Melissa Housley

Head of Product Marketing at Traefik Labs

Melissa Housley is the current Head of Product Marketing at Traefik Labs. Melissa has previous experience working as a Sr. Product Marketing Manager at F5 from January 2020 to October 2021, where they were responsible for enabling DevOps roles to build modern applications through robust product marketing and GTM motions for F5’s Modern Applications Suite. This suite included API Management, NGINX Ingress Controller and NGINX Service Mesh for Kubernetes and application security, as a platform. Prior to their time at F5, Melissa spent two years at Google as a Sr. Product Marketing Manager for Google Cloud IoT and Google Chrome Enterprise from January 2018 to January 2020. Before their time at Google, Melissa worked as a Marketing Manager at Amazon from January 2014 to January 2015, where they were responsible for marketing Azure Mixed Reality Enterprise Solutions, the Windows Insider Program, Xbox 3P Entertainment Partners, the Halo 4 Launch, and the XBOX One Launch. Melissa began their career in 2008 as a Program Manager at Microsoft and held this position until 2011 when they transitioned into Sr. Product Marketing Manager, a role they held until 2018 when they left Microsoft to join F5.

Melissa Housley has a certification from LinkedIn in managing organizational change for managers. Melissa also has a certification from LinkedIn in psychological safety: clear blocks to innovation, collaboration, and risk-taking.

Melissa Housley reports to Marie Ponseel, VP, Marketing.


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