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Ambassador Labs Appoints Deren Rehr-Davis as Vice President of Sales

Ambassador Labs Welcomes Deren Rehr-Davis to Executive Team as Vice President of Sales

Boston, MA – July 27, 2022 – Ambassador Labs, the cloud native developer experience leader, today announced the appointment of Deren Rehr-Davis as its new Vice President of Sales. An industry veteran with nearly a decade of experience in enterprise software sales, Deren will drive the company’s commercial business around helping organizations accelerate their cloud native transformation. According to VMWare’s State of Kubernetes 2022 Report, Kubernetes has become an industry standard, with 99% of respondents saying they have realized benefits from deploying the technology. The appointment of Deren will help Ambassador Labs meet the challenges organizations face when adopting cloud native technologies like Kubernetes. Deren brings extensive experience leading global sales teams and scaling business operations in complex large-scale environments that fuels revenue growth. Most recently, Deren was a global sales leader at Google Cloud where he led worldwide sales for the company’s data analytics software for the next generation of data infrastructure. Prior to Google, Deren held a director of sales position at business intelligence platform provider, Looker (acquired by Google Cloud), where he led the company’s strategic emerging growth market teams and business development teams. “Everything we do is about improving the developer experience and delivering trusted tools that help organizations build and manage cloud native applications at scale without compromising developer productivity,” said Richard Li, co-founder and CEO at Ambassador Labs. “Deren has an impressive track record of building and leading global sales teams to deliver cloud native solutions for customers worldwide. I’m excited to have him at the helm of our sales organization as we enter our next phase of commercial growth.”

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Ambassador Edge Stack Becomes First Cloud Native API Gateway To Support HTTP/3 For High Performance Enterprise Environments

Boston, MA - June 29, 2022 - Ambassador Labs, the cloud native developer experience leader, today announced the newest release of Edge Stack API Gateway, an integrated edge solution that empowers developer teams to quickly configure the edge services required to build, deliver, and scale applications for Kubernetes. HTTP/3 support has been added to Ambassador Edge Stack v3.0 and Emissary-ingress, the CNCF project originally donated by the company, making it simple for developers to manage and observe traffic from the Internet to their Kubernetes services, and to do so with resilience and security at scale. Ambassador Labs also announced a series of learning programs, including the new Kubernetes Learning Center (KLC) site designed to boost skills for developers and platform engineering teams. “Ambassador Edge Stack is a trusted self-service edge offering that eliminates the ops change request backlog and gives power to the developers to implement policy changes to support faster app release cycles with confidence,” said Richard Li, co-founder and CEO at Ambassador.  “Our newest release reinforces our commitment to the developer experience as they take ownership of the full app lifecycle. An intuitive interface makes it simple for developers to own policy changes at the edge - with full visibility into any and all changes made - so they can release applications fast, more frequently and with the highest level of security.” A Comprehensive Edge Stack