Martin Taylor works on strategy in the Azure for Operators organization at Microsoft.  He was Chief Technical Officer at Metaswitch from 2011 up until their acquisition by Microsoft in 2020.  From the earliest days of the network functions virtualization movement, he has been a tireless evangelist for the cloud native approach to building and deploying telco network functions, and now supports telcos on their journey to the ultimate destination for many such network functions: hyperscale cloud.