Lydia Leong is a Distinguished VP Analyst with Gartner for Technical Professionals (GTP). Ms. Leong's coverage is centered on cloud computing, modern operations, platform engineering, and infrastructure strategies with a focus on infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS). She advises clients on a wide variety of cloud-related topics, including cloud strategy, management and governance, as well as the cloud operating model and cloud center of excellence (CCOE). Her hybrid coverage includes self-service, DevOps/DevSecOps, and site reliability engineering (SRE); FinOps and AI tokenomics; and risk-related topics such as concentration risk, resilience and sovereignty.

Because cloud transformation is a stepping stone to AI transformation, her research covers a broad range of topics related to the transformation of IT organizations, data centers and technology providers, as well as AI-native transformation of the SDLC. Over the course of her Gartner career, she has worked in all three of Gartner's major research divisions, advising business and technical leadership at end-user organizations and vendors, as well as investors. She was Gartner's Analyst of the Year in 2010.