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Hardy Chou is a Senior Solutions Architect at GitLab, supporting enterprise organizations across Southeast Asia, Taiwan, and Korea on DevSecOps, software delivery, cloud-native development, and AI-assisted software engineering. His background spans software engineering, application development, DevOps, observability, and technical presales, giving him a broad perspective on both the engineering and business challenges behind modern software delivery. He works closely with organizations across financial services, telecommunications, government, and other large enterprises to modernize how they build, secure, and deliver software. Prior to GitLab, Hardy held technical and solutions engineering roles at Cisco/AppDynamics, Puppet, Progress, and Micro Focus. He regularly speaks on DevSecOps, platform engineering, software delivery transformation, and the evolving role of AI in the software development lifecycle.