Mitch Ashley
VP & Analyst, Futurum Research
Mitch Ashley is VP Practice Lead, Analyst at Futurum Group, leading Software Lifecycle Engineering. With 30+ years as entrepreneur, CTO, CIO, and engineering leader, he brings production experience architecting and operating systems at scale across cybersecurity, PKI, and SaaS. His practice analyzes how AI transforms software development. 2026 theme: developers no longer write code but engineer how AI agents build software. Coverage spans AI-native development, DevOps, DevSecOps, security, observability, and platform engineering. Mitch founded Techstrong Research, proving practitioner-informed analysis drives client engagement. At Futurum, he executes this model at platform scale with timely, independent analysis grounded in operational reality.