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Lakshmiprasad is a seasoned IT consultant at Prodapt, a global leader in providing IT, product, network and operational services for the digital service providers (DSPs). He has over 15 years of experience in leading strategic architecture transformation, product design, UX design and enterprise wide DevOps and CI/CD initiatives.
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Jans Aasman is a Ph.D. psychologist, expert in Cognitive Science and CEO of Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence, creator of Allegro CL a Common Lisp platform, and leading provider of Semantic Database technology and Knowledge Graph solutions. As both a scientist and CEO, Dr. Aasman continues to break ground in the areas of Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Graphs as he works hand-in-hand with numerous Fortune 500 organizations as well as U.S. and foreign governments.
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Puja Abbassi is the Vice President of Product at Giant Swarm, building a managed cloud native developer platform based on Kubernetes. As a CNCF ambassador, he's passionate about bringing cloud native technologies to more developers and their organisations around the globe. In Kubernetes he focuses on extending Kubernetes with custom resources and controllers. With many years of Kubernetes experience and having been in the beta batch of CKAs, he enjoys solving problems and helping people in the community, mainly within SIG Contributor Experience. He used to also a contributor to the CIS Kubernetes Benchmarks.
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Philippe Abdoulaye is the founder of ITaaS Now LLC, a digital transformation research and advisory business in Raleigh, NC.
He is a thought leader and a seasoned digital transformation expert with expertise in DevOps and IT as a Service (ITaaS).
He is the author of the best selling "Cloud computing: Advanced Business and IT Strategy" and "The Complete ITaaS Delivery: The Art of Integrating AWS, DevOps and ITIL into ITaaS Delivery Models."
Philippe is the originator of "The Complete ITaaS Delivery Model™," a digital transformation framework guiding all aspects of IT organization transitions to cloud, DevOps, and ITaaS.
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Asanka Abeysinghe is chief technology evangelist at WSO2.
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Vish Abrams is Chief Architect at Heroku, a subsidiary of Salesforce. Formerly he was a Software Architect at Oracle where he focused on virtualization, containerization, and machine learning for the Cloud Infrastructure team. Prior to Oracle, he was the Chief Technology Officer of Nebula, Inc. He was also NASA Nebula Technical Lead during the creation of Nova, one of the founding OpenStack projects.
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Venkata Achanti is Vice President, Portfolio Leader at Capgemini Americas. He is an inspiring senior IT executive with experience building collaborative teams, developing cloud and digital business solutions, delivering enterprise-wide business and IT capabilities, and adding value through technology transformations. He has developed proven leadership in technology delivery, IT strategy, data analytics, solution architecture, governance, business development, and building CXO relationships. Venkata is based in Atlanta.
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Melanie Achard is the director of product marketing at SolarWinds. Achard’s career in technology started out as favor to a friend when she wrote her first software program on a Morrow Micro System. Her curiosity piqued, she accepted a software development position at a startup and was instantly hooked. Since then, she has worked in software engineering, product management and product marketing at a variety of companies—from small, three-person startups to large Fortune 500 organizations—all with a focus on solving problems that people care about. With 30 years of experience across multiple technology disciplines—from systems administration, IT security and regulatory compliance to external device management and mobile applications—she continues to advance her knowledge and understanding of the continually evolving technology landscape. In 2018, Melanie joined SolarWinds to focus on the growth of the company’s DevOps products—Pingdom, AppOptics, Papertrail and Loggly.
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Jas Adams is the Director of DevOps at Lemongrass.
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John Adams is chief executive officer of Waratek. As CEO, John has complete responsibility for developing markets and operating all aspects of the organization’s global business. John has a rich history in security and medical technology with his experience spanning more than two decades. Prior to Waratek, John served as president and COO of SecurAmerica, leading the company’s expansion into nearly three-dozen new geographic markets and growing the company from five employees to over 5,000. In his career, John has also served as SVP N. America for London-based G4S (formerly Securicor) and held senior executive positions at US Surgical Corporation and Medline Industries. John holds an MBA in Healthcare Administration from Webster University and a BS in Business Administration/Accounting from Florida Southern College.
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Moazzam Adnan Raja is the Vice President of Marketing at Atlantic.Net. During Raja’s tenure, the Orlando-based, privately held hosting company has grown from having a primarily regional presence to garnering and developing attention nationwide and internationally. In collaboration with a skilled and dedicated team, Raja has successfully led a full spectrum of marketing campaigns, as well as handling PR work with major news outlets and the formation of key strategic alliances.
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Nikolay Advolodkin is a senior solutions architect at Sauce Labs and CEO and test automation instructor at UltimateQA.com, a training site covering the gamut of testing topics and technologies.
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Anant Adya is senior VP and head of sales and engagements for Cloud, Infrastructure and Security Services (CIS) for Americas and APAC. He and his team are responsible for designing solutions to help customers in their digital and cloud journey. They use a combination of AI-led solution sets combined with capabilities from partner and startup ecosystem to design best solutions for customers. Cloud and Infrastructure Service line include infrastructure operations, security, data center and network transformation, cloud (public, private and hybrid), workload migration and service experience.
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Pierre-André Aeschlimann is a solution strategist and evangelist at Cherwell.
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Vikas Agarwal is the Founder of GrowExx, a Digital Product Development Agency specializing in Product Engineering, Data Engineering, Business Intelligence, Web and Mobile Applications. His expertise lies in Technology Innovation, Product Management, Building & nurturing strong and self-managed high-performing Agile teams.
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Hector Aguilar is the president of technology at Okta. As president, Hector is responsible for running engineering and technology for Okta, developing strategic planning for the direction of product development activities and managing the engineering team.
Prior to Okta, Hector served in a variety of roles at ArcSight since its inception, driving technology development as the CTO and vice president of software development for the company during its successful IPO in 2008 and after its acquisition by Hewlett Packard. Hector also has experience in software engineering and management at Impresse, ICA, Grupo Televisa and Ericsson, bringing over eighteen years of networking, security and software development experience to Okta.
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Claire Agutter is the lead tutor for ITSM Zone (www.itsm.zone), providers of high quality, accredited online training for IT professionals. Claire uses her background in service management operations and consultancy to blend old and new best practice to give organizations the toolkit they need to deliver business value. From ITIL to DevOps, OBASHI and Agile Service Management, Claire believes in sharing knowledge and experience between organizations, and hosts the popular ITSM Crowd hangouts that provide practical advice to professionals around the world.
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Anand Ahire is the senior director of product for ServiceNow DevOps. His team is responsible for driving the vision and execution of ServiceNow DevOps, which helps enterprises increase release velocity without sacrificing governance. He has spent the majority of his 20+ years in tech building market-leading products for developers and IT. Before ServiceNow, Anand was a VP and GM at Electric Cloud, which was acquired by Cloudbees. He led the product management for ElectricFlow Deploy and Release (in the DevOps, CI/CD market). Before that, he led various products at BMC Software. Anand holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and a Bachelor of Engineering from the College of Engineering Pune.
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Junaid Ahmed is the marketing communication specialist at LambdaTest, one of the most trusted Cross Browser Testing platform. He has a deep dive experience of over 7 years in managing the marketing and communication activities of couple other leading companies in India. In his spare time Junaid loves to travel, eat and read.
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Shamim is currently the CTO for continuous delivery at Broadcom, where he is responsible for innovating DevOps solutions using Broadcom's industry leading technologies. He is a thought leader in DevOps, continuous delivery, continuous testing and application lifecycle management (ALM).
He has more than 15 years of experience in large-scale application design and development, software product development and R&D, application quality assurance and testing, organizational quality management, IT consulting and practice management. Shamim holds two U.S. patents, has been awarded the “Innovator of the year” award at HP, authored several technical publications and has a passion for customer delight.
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Vaidya Aiyer is a leader, innovator, entrepreneur, and technology geek. He has the reputation a major leader and innovator in the low-code space, specifically regarding ERP modernization. His 25 years of ERP/SAP experience has propelled his company’s vision of accelerating modernization and digital transformation. Vaidya has also held executive positions at Lenovo, SEAL Innotech (enterprise mobility and Google Apps solutions), and Medtonic (lean manufacturing solutions). Pillir provides an innovative, ERP-focused, low-code/no-code, cloud-native platform called EdgeReady Cloud.
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Anand Akela is the Sr. Director of Product Marketing for DevOps and Cloud Solutions at CA Technologies. Prior to his current role, Anand was Sr. Director of Product Marketing for Application Performance Management (APM) and Infrastructure Visibility Solutions at AppDynamics. Earlier Anand worked at CA Technologies, Oracle and HP in various product marketing, product management, and engineering roles in the systems management, servers, data center energy efficiency and enterprise software areas. Anand has more than 20 years of experience in product marketing, product management, strategic planning and software development. Anand received his MBA from The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University and a B.S. in Computer Science from Pune University in India.
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Dmitriy Akulov is the founder of open source projects like the free CDN jsDelivr and community-powered network testing platform Globalping.
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Brielle Albert is a writer and digital marketing professional. She holds a BS from NYU and has professional experience in digital marketing and copywriting.
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Rodrigo Albuquerque is the DevOps solutions developer at F5 Networks, where he has worked since 2014.
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Ramiro Algozino is a Product Owner at SIGHUP, where he’s helping with the definition and development of the company’s products and open-source projects like the Kubernetes Fury Distribution.
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Mir Ali is Field CTO, Cloud Solutions at 2nd Watch. He has extensive experience in enterprise architecture, integrations and large-scale technology implementations.
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John Allen , Director, Global SEO at RingCentral, a global UCaaS, VoIP and teleconference services provider. He has over 14 years of experience and an extensive background in building and optimizing digital marketing programs. He has written for websites such as Hubspot and BambooHR.
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Zach Almeida-Beers is head of technical account management, North America at DoiT International, where he and his team ensure customers are successful in the cloud. Prior to joining DoiT, Zachary was a strategic sales engineer at Trifacta. When he is not helping customers optimize cloud usage and spend, he is an avid soccer player and has coached goalkeepers at the youth and collegiate levels.
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Mickey Alon is the founder and CTO of Gainsight PX, the product experience platform. He is a serial entrepreneur focused on designing, building and launching innovative products that help drive business outcomes. Mickey co-authored Mastering Product-Led Growth, a book on building product-led growth strategy. Before joining Gainsight through the acquisition of Aptrinsic, Mickey was global VP of product development at Marketo. He was also the CEO and co-founder of Insightera, a personalization and predictive analytics software, which was acquired by Marketo (Adobe) in 2013.
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Alon is the Founder and CEO of Dome9 Security, and a veteran in networking security. He helped shaped the early days of network security while at Check Point Software (NASDAQ:CHKP) where he built Provider-1, Check Point’s service provider’s management solution, which is still used today by the world’s largest MSPs and enterprises. Alon graduated from Tel Aviv University, and holds several leadership and advisory roles in venture-backed companies.
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Wael Altaqi is a technical account manager at OpsRamp, where he works with customers to deploy and support the OpsRamp platform in their enterprise environment.
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Joshua Althauser has over 12 years of experience in the tech industry. His interests include data visualization, big data, and analysis as well as the intersection of journalism and technology. Some of his works were published on CIO, HBUK, VentureBeat, and Cointelegraph.
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A software developer turned product manager. Breaking big apps at vfunction. Passionate about delivering innovative solutions. Squash player, plant lover, Tel Avivian.
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Phil Alves, CEO and Founder of DevSquad, a company that connects talented teams of developers with businesses to help build their SaaS, is a firm believer in work-life balance and believes this heavily impacts coding performance.
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Andrew Amann is CEO of NineTwoThree Venture Studio, a two-time Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Company. Andrew and his team have created over 50 products and 14 startups and are the leading mobile dev agency in Boston.
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Scott is the Vice President, Chief Scientist of Disciplined Agile at Project Management Institute. Scott leads the evolution of the Disciplined Agile (DA) toolkit. Scott is the (co)-creator of the Disciplined Agile (DA) toolkit as well as the Agile Modeling (AM) and Agile Data (AD) methodologies. He is the (co-)author of several books, including Choose Your WoW!, An Executive’s Guide to Disciplined Agile, Refactoring Databases, Agile Modeling, Agile Database Techniques, and The Object Primer 3rd Edition.
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Amit Anan is an SME on Atlassian suite and SCM tools. He is experienced in process improvements and DevOps consulting and implementation capabilities of toolkits. He has worked in the areas of Jira administration, CI and CD practices and software configuration management.
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S. Anand is the co-founder and CEO at Gramener. He has a rich experience of more than two decades in data science. He is the brain behind Gramener AI Labs and actively helps to create AI/ML-driven data applications. Anand drives the development of Gramener's homegrown business intelligence platform, Gramex. He is also rated among top 10 data scientists in India.
Rajaraman Anandha Krishnan
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Rajaraman, an accomplished CRM consultant, boasts over 15 years of rich IT industry experience across service and product-based companies. His versatile background spans Development, QA, Release, and Program Management, showcasing extensive involvement across sectors like Insurance, Retail, e-commerce, and Healthcare. With specialized proficiency in Salesforce domains such as Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, CPQ, Health Cloud, Experience Cloud, and Integrations. Rajaraman holds prestigious certifications as a Salesforce System Architect and Salesforce Application Architect.
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As Director of Technology with Liberty IT, David has exposure to a wide range of technologies and techniques covering Architecture, Software Development, Leadership, AI/Analytics & Cyber-Security. A life-long programmer, David brings deep technical knowledge along with strong collaboration skills to deliver business value. Since 1997, Liberty IT has created world class IT solutions exclusively for Fortune 100 U.S. parent company, Liberty Mutual Insurance, developing a wide range of enterprise scale, customer-focused solutions which leverage cloud technologies and agile engineering to enable highly dynamic business needs.
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Holly Anderson is the senior director of product marketing at K2 where she leads product messaging, value proposition and customer communications. She has more than a decade of experience with K2 both in-house since 2006. Prior to her time with K2 she was a consultant.
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Steven is the co-founder of Sendachi and an experienced CEO, CTO and COO, having held each of these roles several times over the past two decades. After a career (ages ago) at Microsoft as a software developer and Program Manager, Steven entered the start-up domain and has since successfully launched, funded, grown and sold more than a few industry leading companies responsible for creating several new technology sectors. Steven is an active mentor in the Seattle entrepreneurial community as well as a practicing large scale software/systems architect, product/solutions designer, software developer and technology evangelist.
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Wesley Anderson is a data storage content specialist for Pure Storage. Pure Storage (NYSE:PSTG) helps innovators uncomplicate data storage, forever. Our data solutions enable SaaS companies, cloud service providers, and enterprise and public sector customers to deliver real-time, secure data to power their mission-critical production, DevOps, and modern analytics environments in a multi-cloud environment
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Mattias Andersson is a Principal Developer Advocate at Pluralsight. An expert in both Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services, Mattias’s passion for continuous learning and sharing his successes, failures, and everything in between through his courses has helped train hundreds of thousands of Cloud engineers. He has also helped guide hundreds of thousands more through his videos and articles.
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Geosley is a Product Evangelist and Community Builder at ACCELQ. He is on a mission to unite the testing community and keeps himself busy leading the Q community - A Global Community of Test Automation Enthusiasts. Being passionate about continuous learning, Geosley loves to innovate the method of working resulting in higher Efficiency.
Nick Andrews
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Nick Andrews is the marketing manager at OverOps.
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Andres Angelani is the CEO of Cognizant Softvision. He has extensive experience building strategic partnerships and leading programs that have reshaped businesses and industries. Angelani is a frequent speaker and is a co-author of the book The Never-Ending Digital Journey: Creating New Consumer Experiences Through Technology. His second book, Transforming While Performing, will be released in September 2019.
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Karena Angell, product marketing principal at Red Hat, focuses on data solutions for the hybrid cloud. She brings expertise in enterprise storage with experience across multiple departments, including sales, marketing and product development. Karena delivers real-world solutions for many of today's emerging data-driven workloads.
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Andrei Anisimov is a technology leader and architect with experience developing technologies in several industries and international markets. He is passionate about translating business problems to technological solutions, and leading teams of engineers to deliver on time and on target.
He is currently VP of Technology at 8base, an application development platform and ecosystem that leverages blockchain technology to allow software authors, contributors and users all over the world to work in concert to rapidly and cost-effectively develop and launch enterprise-class software. Previously, he founded and served as Chief Architect of Dukesoft, an enterprise software development company for the gaming, hospitality and tech industries. He also served as the Director of Technology at Orbtec and was a Quantitative Developer at Kore Capital.
Andrei wrote his first code at the age of 9. At 15, he won the Regional Programming Olympics in Russia. He graduated with a master’s degree in mathematics and computer security from Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University. He is also a former rock musician who toured Russia and Eastern Europe as the lead guitarist of the Russian rock band Stigmata. He composed music, recorded albums and performed for hundreds of thousands of fans.
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Abe Ankumah leads the product marketing and partnerships team for VMware SD-WAN and SASE business. Abe joined VMware via Nyansa, a fast-growing innovator of AI-based network analytics, acquired by VMware in February 2020, where he was CEO and Co-Founder.
Abe's career has spanned a broad spectrum in technology and enterprise IT. Prior to Nyansa, Abe was Director of Products and Alliances at Meraki (acquired by Cisco for $1.2B in 2012). Before Meraki, Abe worked in the office of the CEO at Aruba Networks, where he was responsible for Product and Business Operations. Earlier in his career, Abe was part of the founding engineering team at Fulcrum Microsystems (acquired by Intel), a fabless semiconductor company and a leader in the low-latency switching market.
Abe started his career as a research engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. Abe holds a BS degree from Caltech and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
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Suhail is the Chief Technology Officer at Tricentis, responsible for leading the technology strategy and the development of our software quality engineering products and platforms. Suhail has over 25 years of experience leading teams that build world class products, combining technology and data in innovative ways to solve customer problems. Holder of multiple patents, he has built and managed top-notch teams in engineering, product, and data science teams across the globe, and is based in the Bay Area in California.
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:**Javier Antich has been in the Networking Industry for 25 years. He holds a BS Degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the ETSIT at the Polytechnic University in Valencia, an Executive MBA at the IE Business School, and a Data Science and Deep Learning master’s degree from the Madrid Institute of IoT.
He is currently a Product Manager at Selector. Previously, he was responsible for Nokia NSP’s long-term product strategy and product management lead for the NSP Platform, Mediation, and Automation frameworks. Before joining Nokia, Javier was Sr. Director PLM in the Automated WAN Solutions team, focused on Automation, Programmability, Telemetry & Analytics. Before that, he witnessed the rise of the Carrier/Metro Ethernet market at Riverstone Networks as a Principal Systems Engineer.
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Deepak Anupalli is the co-founder & CTO at WaveMaker. He brings two decades of experience in product design, innovation and technology. Over the last few years, witnessing the low-code evolution first hand, he worked with several organizations enabling them to adopt low-code platforms for a wide variety of use cases such as legacy modernization, re-architecting products with legacy stack, building solutions with customization etc. In his previous role, he led the development of Pramati Application Server, the world's first J2EE certified App Server and brings deep understanding of J2EE and middleware technologies. He has also contributed to the development of several standards, being part of the JCP Expert groups. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from NIT Warangal, India.
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Kristin is responsible for technical sales cycles from online demonstrations to security proposals at xMatters. She has over 15 years in the technical software sales industry. Previously, Kristin was an engineer with Skytap and ResultsPositive.
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Brook Appelbaum is a Sr. Principal Product Marketing Manager for CA Agile Central. Prior to this role, Brook held digital marketing and product marketing positions across organizations in the mobile application and rapid application development space. She also spent a significant portion of her career focusing on server, storage and virtualization technology marketing strategies for large enterprises. Brook holds a Master’s in Integrated Marketing Communications from Northwestern University and a Bachelor’s in Advertising from the University of Texas.
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John Appleby leads Avantra as the Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Avantra John serve as the global head of DDM/HANA center of excellence at SAP and as the global head of SAP HANA solutions at Bluefin Solutions, subsequently acquired by Mindtree. John is a recognized thought leader in the SAP market and was part of SAP’s mentors’ group. John holds an MA in computer science from the University of Cambridge.
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Anastasios Arampatzis is a retired Hellenic Air Force officer with over 20 years’ worth of experience in managing IT projects and evaluating cybersecurity. During his service in the Armed Forces, he was assigned to various key positions in national, NATO and EU headquarters and has been honoured by numerous high-ranking officers for his expertise and professionalism. He was nominated as a certified NATO evaluator for information security.
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Kalyan Arangam is a solution architect with over 15 years of experience providing information management and business intelligence consulting services. Previous to his time as a solution architect at Matillion, a leading data transformation software provider, he worked as a lead consultant at technology, computing and consulting companies, including Acuma.
Yuki Arbel
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Yuki is an entrepreneur and a product executive with more than 20 years of cyber, cloud and telecom experience, Yuki started his career at P-Cube, a networking startup that was later acquired by Cisco. After his position as system architect at Cisco, Yuki became CEO of Comsleep, an energy saving startup, and then served as Head of Product for Nokia’s telecom cloud infrastructure. Most recently, Yuki served as VP Product for Hysolate, a cybersecurity startup that was acquired by Perception-Point. A graduate of the prestigious Talpiot program, Yuki holds a B.Sc in physics and mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as well as an MBA from Tel Aviv University.
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Justin Arbuckle is Vice President of Worldwide Transformation and Chief Enterprise Architect at Chef Software, an IT automation company that helps enterprises use DevOps to build and deliver quality software quickly. He is a passionate proponent of the transformative potential of Agile, Lean and DevOps in large enterprises. Previously, he was Chief Architect at GE Capital where he introduced and sponsored DevOps. He has been an executive on three continents; working in Financial Services for the last 20 years in diverse areas such as innovation, venture capital and consulting. Justin’s focus at Chef is in helping large enterprises grow a high velocity software product development capability.
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Alberto is the Cofounder and CTO of ElasticBox. He has over 12 years experience in architecting and developing large scale distributed software systems. Prior to ElasticBox, as the VP of Architecture at DynamicOps, Alberto led the design of the enterprise-scale platform to automate the private cloud infrastructure used by several Fortune 500 companies.
Alberto has a Master's degree in Computer Science from Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, and is working towards his Ph.D. in Computer Science (pending dissertation). In his spare time, he loves cycling, mountain biking, and pampering his infant twin daughters.
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Wayne Ariola, CMO of Tricentis, is a recognized thought leader on software testing topics such as continuous testing, risk-based testing, service virtualization, and API testing. Wayne has created and marketed products that support the dynamic software development, test, and delivery landscape. He has driven the design of many innovative technologies and received several patents for his inventions. He has been a contributor to the software testing space for fifteen years and in the software industry for more than 20 years. Connect with him on LinkedIn.
Fay Arjomandi
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Fay Arjomandi is founder and chief product officer at mimik. Fay has held senior executive positions in various start-ups and fortune 100 companies. She was the CEO at NantMobile, Tensorcom, Vodafone xone and Mobidia. She was a board member of Vodafone America’s Group Enterprise, and the chairwoman of Vodafone Americas Foundation. Fay was the co-founder and CEO of three start-up companies: L3 Technology, Mobidia and Disternet (now mimik).
In 2018, she received the Concordia Alumni of the Year award and in 2014 was named as one of the most influential women business leaders in Silicon Valley by San Francisco Business Week. In 2007, she was the Canadian technology and innovation representative to the White House. In 2006, she received the distinguished Business In Vancouver’s “Top 40 Under 40” award presented to outstanding leaders in their chosen fields. Fay is also currently the chairwoman of H2 Wellness and advisor to a number of other companies.
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Armed with a 20-year history of maximizing value to users through technological innovation, Tim Armandpour is PagerDuty’s SVP of engineering.
Prior to joining PagerDuty, Tim led product management and engineering teams at Yapstone, a global payment solutions provider. Tim also led the global engineering teams at PayPal that delivered new product experiences across tablets, mobile devices, and the web. He also served as vice president engineering at Zong, prior to its acquisition by PayPal. Tim began his career in 1999 as Lead Engineer with Yodlee.
Tim is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego, where he received his B.A. in Computer Science. He also holds 4 U.S. Patents.
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Vince Arneja has more than 20 years of management experience in product strategy spanning application, cloud, mobile, endpoint and network security. Previously, he was Chief Product Officer at 5nine, a hybrid cloud virtualization security vendor acquired by Acronis, SVP of Product Management at OPAQ a secure access service edge company acquired by Fortinet, and VP of
Product Management at Arxan an application security vendor acquired by TA Associates and then Digital.ai. Vince also serves as an advisor to various cyber security companies in the DC Metro Area and the Bay Area.
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Greg Arnette is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of CloudTruth. He has been creating public cloud SaaS solutions for over 20 years and holds a patent on arbitraging computer resources in a cloud computing environment. Before co-founding CloudTruth, Greg was the founder & CTO of three cloud SaaS companies in the email, compliance, governance, and data protection markets.
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Ritesh Arora is CEO of BrowserStack and a serial entrepreneur who has started multiple companies alongside co-founder Nakul Aggarwal. Prior to BrowserStack, they co-founded QuarkRank (one of the first AI powered sentiment engines), QuarkBase (in the top 8,000 websites by traffic globally at the time) and Downcase (a consulting company with global clients). While building the website for Downcase, they became frustrated with the inability to test what they were building across a range of devices and browsers. To solve this problem, they built the first version of BrowserStack. The rest of the history is still being written.
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Sumeet Arora is the Chief Development Officer at ThoughtSpot. Arora leads ThoughtSpot’s global Engineering and Product teams in continuously improving and scaling the AI-powered data analytics platform. Prior to joining ThoughtSpot, Sumeet served as SVP and GM of Service Provider Networking at Cisco. In this role, he led the Engineering & Product management team for the Service Provider routing portfolio and was responsible for driving profitable market share growth of this multi-billion dollar business.
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Gil Artmoore spent the past decade working various roles in IT departments for many businesses. Recently, Gil started writing out the things she has learned, experienced and witnessed in the small business/tech world during her career.
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Prabhu is the product head for Jile. He is a Certified Scrum Master and SAFe® Program Consultant (SPC) with more than 20 years of experience building innovative solutions across different industries. His expertise includes product management, strategy, design, engineering and deployment support.
Prabhu is passionate about Agile methodologies and has pioneered product development in the areas of test management, test automation, application lifecycle management and DevOps. Prabhu has several patents filed and granted in the categories of test automation and management. He has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from College of Engineering, Guindy, Chennai.
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As General Manager of Security, Aviad Arviv brings more than 20 years of experience in global operations and business development to Digital.ai. He joined Digital.ai following its acquisition of Experitest, a leading provider of mobile and web application testing solutions, where he served as Chief Revenue Officer. During his career, Aviad has been instrumental in overseeing revenue growth in sectors including DevOps, Cyber Security, and Media. Previously, he held senior leadership roles at companies including NorthBit Cyber Security, where he served as COO, and Perion, where he was VP of Monetization.
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Abhishek Arya is a Principal Engineer and head of the Google Open Source Security Team. His team has been a key contributor to various security engineering efforts inside the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF). This includes the Supply Chain Security Framework and Tools
(SLSA, Sigstore), Security Risk Measurement Platform (Scorecards, AllStar), Vulnerability Management Solutions (OSV) and Package Analysis pipeline. Prior to this, he was a founding member of the Google Chrome Security Team and built OSS-Fuzz, a highly scaled and automated fuzzing infrastructure that fuzzes all of Google and open source.
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Matt Asay runs Marketing, Business Development and Corporate Strategy at MongoDB, a modern database company. Prior to MongoDB, Matt was Vice President of Business Development at Nodeable (acquired by Appcelerator), a provider of real-time data stream processing for big data applications, and also at Strobe (acquired by Facebook). He was Chief Operating Officer at Canonical, ran the Americas for Alfresco and founded the Open Source Business Conference. Matt writes a regular column for ReadWrite and The Register. He has a B.A. from Brigham Young University in English and Political Science, an M.A. from the University of Kent and a J.D. from Stanford University.
Jodi Ashley
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Derek Ashmore is Application Transformation Principal at Asperitas Consulting.
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Sridhar Asvathanarayanan is the founder of Infosynapsys Technologies and was a VP, senior IT manager in one of the world's leading insurance companies. He has been developing the strategy and leading IT operations, DevOps, cloud initiatives, infrastructure and application services, for several years. With over 30 years of global IT experience in a variety of industries such as insurance, reinsurance, banking, finance sector and IT services, Sridhar has spearheaded the efforts for application modernization and automation driving operational efficiency through the use of cloud, DevOps, tools and technology.
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Lee Atchison is an author and recognized thought leader in cloud computing and application modernization with more than three decades of experience, working at modern application organizations such as Amazon, AWS, and New Relic. Lee is widely quoted in many publications and has been a featured speaker across the globe. Lee’s most recent book is Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly Media). https://leeatchison.com
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Dor Atias is the VP Engineering at Cycode. Dor is a former officer in the Intelligence Corps Technological Unit with more than 10 years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, Cloud, and Saas. Dor was one of the R&D key members in the BlazeMeter acquisition to CA technologies in 2016 and led the platform group after the acquisition.
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Josh Atwell is Splunk’s senior technology advocate focused on next-generation IT operations and DevOps. He is the co-author of several popular books, a serial podcaster, has led numerous technology user groups and is an awarded public speaker. Josh has more than 20 years of experience in IT working with a wide range of technologies. His most recent focuses have been in DevOps, digital transformation and IT transformation.
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Adam Auerbach is VP, Head of Cloud Agility and Quality for EPAM Systems, a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and software development services. In this role, Adam and his team enable companies to realize “code to value, fast” by supporting DevOps and Agile capabilities through the Engineering Excellence and Quality Engineering practices. Before joining EPAM, Mr. Auerbach served as the VP of Quality and DevOps Engineering at Lincoln Financial Group, where he was responsible for introducing and leading the DevOps and quality engineering transformation across the company. Prior to joining Lincoln, Mr. Auerbach was the Senior Director of Technology for advanced testing and release services at Capital One Financial Corporation. At Capital One, he led the transformation to agile for the quality assurance group, as well as the adoption of DevOps and continuous testing practices across the enterprise. Mr. Auerbach has a bachelor’s degree from Millersville University and is a certified SPC.
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Vishal Augustine has 18 years of hands-on experience in BSS/OSS domain of ICT, playing different roles such as Solution Architect, Technical Program Management, Technical Director etc. He has engaged customers from early lead stage all the way through delivery and to managed services. The opinions expressed here are only his. They do not purport to reflect the opinions or views of his current or past organizations.
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Tej Aulakh is managing consultant, Security Consulting, at Spirent Communications, where he leads the source-code analysis team at SecurityLabs, Spirent’s ethical hacking and security research group. Tej Aulakh has more than 15 years of experience in software development and source-code analysis for a variety of enterprise, finance, Industrial control systems and IT solutions companies.
Prior to Spirent, Tej worked at Pacific Life Insurance, Mercer Advisors, Safetran Systems and Oracle (formerly SeeBeyond Technology) where he was in charge of product development with focus in agile Software Development and Secure Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes.
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Ingo Averdunk is an IBM Distinguished Engineer, leading Architecture and Solutions for Cloud Service Management and Site Reliability Engineering for IBM Cloud. He develops transformation initiatives for IBMs strategic customers globally.
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Zeev Avidan is chief product officer and head of marketing at OpenLegacy. He defines the roadmap of OpenLegacy’s microservices-based architecture and API integration within legacy systems. He is the co-author of Accelerating the Digital Journey from Legacy Systems to Modern Microservices.
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Alexey Aylarov is the co-founder and CEO of Voximplant. In 2008, he graduated from Bauman Moscow State Technical University with a degree in Computer Systems and Networks. He co-founded Zingaya in 2010, and Voximplant in 2013. Alexey is an expert in telephony, audio and video communications, messaging and chatbots.
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James (Jim) Azar, Orasi Senior VP and Chief Technology Officer, is a 29-year veteran of the software and services industry. Jim Azar is charged with oversight of service delivery, technology evaluation, and strategic planning at Orasi. Among his many professional credits, Azar was a co-founder of Technology Builders, Inc. (TBI), where he built the original CaliberRM requirements management tool. Azar earned a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Alabama, College of Engineering, where he was named to the Deans’ Leadership Board. He furthered his education with advanced and continuing studies at Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon, and Auburn University at Montgomery.
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Mohamed Azeem, technical lead at HCL Technologies.
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Shahar Azulay, CEO of groundcover,is a serial R&D leader. Shahar brings experience in the world of cybersecurity and machine learning, having worked as a leader in companies such as Apple, DayTwo, and Cymotive Technologies. Shahar spent many years in the cyber division at the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office and holds three degrees in Physics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology as well as Tel Aviv University. Shahar strives to use technological learnings from this rich background and bring it to today’s cloud-native battlefield in the sharpest, most innovative form to make the world of dev a better place.