John Wetherill, Principal Architect at BNY Mellon's Innovation Center in Palo Alto, spent much of his career designing and building software at a handful of startups, at Sun Microsystems, NeXT Inc., and in the smart grid and energy space. His biggest passion is for tools, languages, processes, and systems that improve developer productivity and quality of life.

John has spent the last four years immersed in Cloud Foundry, and continues to focus on cloud technologies including PaaS, microservices, and containerization.

He is currently at the BNY Mellon Innovation Center Silicon Valley where he is helping drive the adoption of cloud and related technologies across the bank.