Paul Meharg joined Sonatype in 2019 as a Sales Engineer and has been promoted to Director of Solution Architecture. He has been a Solution Architect for many years specializing in DevOps and Software Delivery Automation since 2007. Prior to Sonatype, he was with IBM working with the UrbanCode (DevOps) family of products, and prior to IBM was with Red Hat, Hewlett Packard, and Texas Instruments. He goal is to understand clients requirements and to craft solutions meeting those needs. He has worked closely with customers across a variety of industries in the United States and Canada, including major financial firms, logistics, insurance, manufacturers, medical, and government. Bringing over 35 years of experience in the software industry as a developer, software tester, sales engineer, consultant and business development manager. he has a Computer Science degree from Texas State University.