Darryn Dieken

Darryn Dieken is the EVP of Infrastructure Engineering and the Chief Availability Officer at Salesforce. Darryn previously worked at Microsoft from January 2008 to December 2016 as the Corporate Vice President of Cloud Infrastructure, Capacity Engineering and Management. In this role, they were responsible for leading demand forecasting, capacity planning and management, capacity optimization and execution, long-term planning, and capital investment strategy for Microsoft's cloud services. This included managing a 800-person team with a budget exceeding $6B annually.

During their time at Microsoft, Darryn also led the global capacity planning for datacenters, networking, power, and compute and storage in +40 locations across 20 countries in a hyper-growth environment, launching new Internet-scale datacenters monthly. In addition, they were responsible for setting and managing policy for in-country datacenter hosting including risk management, data sovereignty, taxation, supply chain logistics, and other legal, regulatory, and business implications.

Under Darryn's leadership, Microsoft's engineering and automation systems were built to manage the company's global cloud infrastructure across each of its cloud services. This resulted in significant reductions in time-to-market and hardware cycle times. Darryn was also a founding member of Microsoft’s Capital Council that reviews and approves capital expenditures.

Darryn Dieken received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Hastings College.