Michael Breashears is Account Director with Contino, now a Cognizant company. He has 30 years of success as a developer advocate leading global teams, across multiple geographic locations, through significant transformational change, resulting in building a culture of developer-centric innovation and efficiency. Michael has worked with major verticals including Financial Services, Publishing, Retail, and Technology Services Delivery. Michael led global Competitive Architecture Teams for Cisco Systems in defining and delivering competitive mechanisms for sales teams that encapsulated an 80% win rate while effecting $2B per quarter in savings. Michael also led a global DevOps and Sales Acceleration Team for SAP’s Cloud Business Group. He delivered software and services to the cloud and defined rapid paths to market with a customer first approach.