Ken Owens is Vice President, Cloud Native Engineering at Mastercard. Ken is a technical executive with 20+ years’ experience in architecture, analysis, design, research, and implementation of cloud native patterns, data center and cloud computing infrastructures consisting of SOA software design, virtualization, server, network, security, storage, automation, management layers, and deployment methodologies. Experience in system engineering functions, such as system architecture development, system requirements synthesis, performance modeling, behavior modeling, feasibility analysis, and validation of multi-layered communication systems.