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VP and General Manager at NGINX

Behold the F5 NGINX Ugly Holiday Sweater, where corporate branding meets the fine and blurry line between festive and functionality. 🧥❄️ The 2024 edition is our entry to the annual holiday rite. No holiday party is complete for me without this conversation piece. To fly the Christmas flag and shout out or annual —it’s loaded with icons that tell the stories of F5 NGINX lore. Love the exact shade of green, too (I’m biased as the GM of NGINX). Here’s the manual for our sweater iconography (with blatant sales pitches included): Snowglobe of Resilience: Celebrating F5’s storm-proof strength, because nothing says "holiday cheer" like systems built to survive the wildest blizzard. AI Icons: Three different takes on machine learning and AI, making us the brains of the party. (Of course, we just launched the F5 AI Gateway for anyone looking to better safeguard AI workloads,) Going Green: This sweater shouts out our eco-friendly ambitions and the launch of NGINX One in the fall of 2024, which brings PlatformOps, SecOps, NetOps and DevOps together for holiday cheer in one collaboration SaaS. Jimmy Packets: Everyone’s favorite DevCentral mascot is here, ready to explain cloud native, Kubernetes, and distributed tracing to your relatives who just wanted to talk football. Snowy Bots: Because snowflakes, like bots, come in so many forms — and we can detect them to protect your applications and networks! SaaSquatch: Returning from last year’s sweater with big feet and bigger swag, reminding everyone that some legends never die. (I don’t have an exact sales pitch for this one) Ugly sweaters are not just corporate schwag. They are a true statement of holiday cheer and giving…you something to laugh with colleagues and dear friends at holiday parties. What’s your corporate ugly sweat policy? PS: (We’ll add a policy icon next year — ideas welcome). 🎅👇 #UglySweaterSeason #NGINX #F5  

Shawn Wormke

VP and General Manager at NGINX

3mo

Hey François, Kunal and Michael now who wore it better? 🤔

Roberta Miller Martinez

Senior Technical Program Manager Passionate about Delivering Excellence

3mo

Looking good Shawn!!

Robert Leetun

Sr. Technical Project Manager at Intrado

3mo

Love it!

Mark Dittmer

Product Leader at F5

3mo

Love this

Matt Butcher

CEO at Fermyon Technologies

3mo

This is brilliance and hilarity all wrapped in warm fuzziness.

Nobody wears the NGINX green like u do Shawn 💪

Rose Sawvel

Strategic Marketing Leader | Content, Product, & Developer Marketing

3mo

Haha the holiday magic is real this year! Love this, Shawn Wormke.

Swante Bleakley

Executive Producer | Creative Video Production Leader | Multimedia Content Strategist | Internal Media Operations

3mo

Looking good, Shawn!!

Steve Duras

Open & Composable Full-Stack Observability

3mo

SaaSquatch haha 🤣

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