Leadership

Patti brings over 25 years of financial and management experience to Liquibase. She has served as the Chief Financial Officer for Liquibase, responsible for the areas of finance and operations. Her expertise and leadership has benefited several successful companies, including Gazzang (acquired by Cloudera) and Phurnace Software (acquired by BMC). Patti is actively involved in the Austin community and is an advisory board member for the CFO Leadership Council.

Robert leads Liquibase’s technology strategy. He is as passionate about supporting everyone he can with Liquibase as he is about punk rock and comic books. Prior to co-founding Liquibase, he was a Director at the Austin Technology Incubator and co-founded Phurnace Software, inventing their flagship product for middleware and infrastructure management. A US Army veteran, Robert holds an Economics degree from the University of Texas at Austin and an MS degree in Science and Technology Commercialization from the McCombs School of Business.

Brian drives the product and cloud strategy, product management, user experience, and documentation at Liquibase. Prior to joining, Brian held notable roles at Allen Systems Group as the VP of Product for Data Intelligence, as well as at Troux Technologies where he served as Director of Product.  Brian has extensive experience across multiple organizations focusing on rapid prototyping, user experience, technical strategy and modernization, and go-to-market alignment. Brian holds a BS degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Kansas, as well as an MBA from the University of Texas.

Ryan brings more than 20 years of experience focused on building software, delivering quality, and ensuring customer success at companies such as CloudBees, Red Hat, and JBoss (acquired by Red Hat). As a co-founding engineer at CloudBees, he launched the CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise offering and built a world-class customer success organization. Ryan holds a BS degree in Computer Science from Harding University.

Kristyl has over 15 years of experience in software engineering working on product lines that span mainframe, desktop, mobile & web applications. At Liquibase, Kristyl leads the engineering teams and is responsible for the software development and technical quality of all its products. Kristyl holds a BE degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Mumbai and an MS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington.

Kevin is a technology executive with over 20 years of experience managing teams and developing SaaS, client-server, desktop applications database tools and business automation software. Prior to joining Datical, Kevin held a variety of positions from software engineer to CTO. Kevin holds a BS degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.

Mike Runco leads the sales team at Liquibase and brings a strong track record of building relationships between vendors and partners. From acting as a business development representative to navigating mid-market and enterprise sales and eventually building an international BDR program, Mike has experience in all the vital areas within a successful sales powerhouse. Mike holds a BS degree from Johnson & Wales University with a focus on Sales & Marketing.

Robert leads Liquibase’s technology strategy. He is as passionate about supporting everyone he can with Liquibase as he is about punk rock and comic books. Prior to co-founding Liquibase, he was a Director at the Austin Technology Incubator and co-founded Phurnace Software, inventing their flagship product for middleware and infrastructure management. A US Army veteran, Robert holds an Economics degree from the University of Texas at Austin and an MS degree in Science and Technology Commercialization from the McCombs School of Business.

As Director of Product, Pete collaborates with Liquibase community members, customers and engineers to provide fast and secure database change management automation. Prior to co-founding Datical (now Liquibase) Pete was a factotum for several Austin startups, most notably Phurnace (acquired by BMC), WholeSecurity (acquired by Symantec) & LoopOne (acquired by Neopost).

Nathan founded the Liquibase open-source project in 2006 and has over 20 years experience architecting and building software. He started Liquibase to enable easier tracking of database changes and it has since become the de facto standard for database change management. Nathan is focused on expanding the Liquibase community and providing strategic insight into the development of Liquibase products. Nathan holds BS degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from Concordia College.