Lori MacVittie

Lori MacVittie is a Distinguished Engineer & Chief Evangelist in F5’s Office of the CTO with an emphasis on emerging architectures and technologies including cloud and edge computing, digital transformation, and application delivery. MacVittie has over twenty-five years of industry experience spanning application development, IT architecture, and network and systems’ operation. Prior to joining F5, MacVittie was an award-winning technology editor at Network Computing Magazine and an enterprise architect who helped lead a global transportation and logistics firm into the Internet age. MacVittie has developed software for Nokia phones, Autodesk, and regional telecommunications firms. She co-authored the CADD profile for ANSI NCITS 320-1998 and is a prolific author with books spanning security, cloud, and enterprise architecture. She holds an M.S. in Computer Science and particularly strong opinions about cheese and gaming systems.