Bassam Tabbara is the CEO and Founder of Upbound, the cloud control plane company, and the creator of the Crossplane and Rook CNCF projects. Prior to Upbound, he was the CTO of Quantum, and CTO and co-founder of Symform, a P2P storage startup acquired by Quantum. Earlier he was a Partner Software Architect at Microsoft where he led key initiatives as part of Microsoft Research, Azure, Windows Server, and Visual Studio.