John Welsh is the founder of Deathmatch, LLC, a company devoted to creating entertaining and informative videos focused on technology and the engineers that work on it.  In addition to being the producer and host of Engineering Deathmatch for the previous three seasons, John is a solutions architect and a CCIE, and has been working in technology for 20 years.  His areas of expertise include unified communications and collaboration, but he also enjoys learning more about data center, cloud, software development, and networking.