DEVNETWORK - Key Persons
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- CEO, Databloom
- Software Architect and Advanced Software Engineer
Alexander is a technically proficient Software Architect and advanced software engineer at heart with almost 25 years of experience in complex software design and ethical hacking. He is a digital expert and especially drives the digitalization across the society, and as a well-known entrepreneur he loves to build innovative cutting edge tech to solve future challenges of our mankind today.
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- VP, Networking and Advanced Security / VMWare
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- CTO & Co - Founder, VFunction
Amir Rapson co-founded vFunction and serves as its CTO, where he leads its technology, product and engineering. Prior to founding vFunction in 2017, Amir was a GM and the VP R&D of WatchDox until its acquisition by Blackberry, where Amir served as a VP of R&D. Prior to WatchDox, Amir held R&D positions at CTERA Networks and at SofaWare (Acquired by Check Point). Amir has an MBA from the IDC Herzlia, and a BSc in Physics from Tel-Aviv University.
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- Senior VP of R & D, PerimeterX
- Senior VP of Research and Development at PerimeterX
Amir Shaked is the Senior VP of research and development at PerimeterX, responsible for building a multi-zone distributed system that detects and mitigates automated attacks on websites in real-time. Before that, he led several software engineering groups in the Israeli ministry of prime minister, focusing on cybersecurity products, and worked many years as a software engineer and security researcher. He has extensive experience leading software teams in multiple disciplines, such as web apps, IOT, telecom, and machine learning. He holds an MBA and BS.c in Physics and Economics from Tel-Aviv University
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- Director, Product Management, Cycode
An experienced hands-on Senior product manager with excellent inter-personal skills, long-term vision, passionate about leading company roadmap into new evolution stages while managing and satisfying customer expectations and putting customer first with powerful rich user experience (UX).
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- Founder & CEO, Foodetective
Currently building the infrastructure & unified API of the food & resto tech industry.
Andreas SIlén is a co-founder and CTO of exciting Swedish customer data api company, Roaring.io. Andreas has an extensive background in software development and data engineering.
Working with a globally distributed department of SREs and developers in building the world's first CNCF certified Kubernetes platform based on K3s.
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- VP and Global Head of Data Services / Instaclustr
CEO of Telco Systems, a WW leader in Edge Computing and business connectivity technology. Ariel is also serving as the COO of BATM (LSE:BVC). In previous roles, headed Amdocs Product Group Venture Investments and Products M&A unit, headed Amdocs corporate competitive strategy unit and was the General Manager of the Service Fulfillment Product Business Unit.A software engineer education and an EMBA graduate of the Kellogg Recanati School of Management (Northwestern University & Tel-Aviv University)
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- CTO
- MIT Group 's Chief Technology Officer
Boydlee is MIT Group's Chief Technology Officer. He oversees the product and development for a number of businesses within the MIT portfolio, leading the engineering, test and cloud/infrastructure teams. Boyd has more than 20 years of software and product development experience, both in the enterprise and startup worlds.
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- Chief Technology Officer
- Co - Founder
David Pilato is Developer and Evangelist at elastic and French spoken language User Group creator. In his free time, he likes talking about elasticsearch in conferences or in companies (Brown Bag Lunches AKA BBLs - https://www.elastic.co/blog/free-lunch-for-open-source-engineers).
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- Data Science Leader and Engineer
- Director of Data Science, the Trade Desk
Douglas is a data science leader and engineer with a decade of experience in high-volume, low-latency automated decisioning. He has worked with businesses through different periods of growth enjoying the challenges that come with uncertainty. Experienced building data teams and driving organizational change from within. He has a BA in Computer Science from Cambridge University and a PhD from Imperial College. He is the author of numerous technical papers and co-wrote the second edition of the Manning title: "Algorithms of the Intelligent Web." As Director of Data Science for the Trade Desk he currently leads data products and data decisioning.
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- Researcher
- Software Engineer, Analytics & Optimization, Geotab
Ekrem Aksoy is an AI/ML Researcher. His research interests are Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Optimization and High Performance Computing. He received his PhD from Eskisehir Osmangazi University. He currently works as Senior Software Engineer at GEOTAB Inc.
Emily is the Event Operations Manager at DevNetwork. She is responsible for providing support to all speakers, sponsors and exhibitors. Prior to joining DevNetwork, Emily worked as the Marketing Coordinator for the El Dorado Hills Town Center, where she planned large community events and provided local business owners with marketing services. Emily graduated from Sonoma State University in 2014 with a B.A in Communication Studies with an emphasis on writing and Public Relations. As a Bay Area native, Emily is excited to return to the Bay Area's tech industry, where she previously worked with Antenna Group, a tech and energy Public Relations Firm in San Francisco.
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- CEO & Co - Founder, Lumigo / Co - Founder & CPO
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- Co - Founder & CTO, Argon / Co - Founder & CTO of Argon. Formerly Co - Founder & CTO of Datsmi. Formerly R & D Lead at Special Unit Ofek of the IAF
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- Security and Threat Researcher, Founder
Geoff Domoracki is the co-founder and CEO of DevNetwork, producers of technology conferences including DeveloperWeek, API World, and ProductWorld. A philosophy major turned tech entrepreneur, Geoff lives in the cross-section of philosophy and technology. Geoff was formerly the co-founder of Techweek, the leading Midwest startup & technology conference, as well as a consultant for investment firms such as Lightbank, the venture capital firm behind Groupon. He enjoys curating and moderating conference talks around systemic change, the API ecosystem, democratizing data, and thinking of the web as an open database or "read-write web". In his spare time, he's usually training for an Ironman triathlon, practicing Jeet Kune Do, or reading Integral Theory.
SW craftsmanship, TDD addicted, agile coach. I have fallen in love with FP in particular Elixir/Erlang. I like Ruby, NodeJs and C++. CTO @coders51
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- Founder and CEO, ScaleDynamic
I'm an entrepreneur and passionate about creating new technologies for developers. I sold my previous startup, Flexycore, to Google in 2012. After working for Google for several years, I left to start ScaleDynamics and create a revolutionary new approach to go-to cloud for JavaScript developers. Our less-code platform is fully managed and available on any cloud.I hold a computer science Ph.D. I have published a total of 78 Patents from different workplaces (ScaleDynamics, Google, FlexyCore, Texas Instruments, INRIA), many research articles, conference publications, talks and roundtables, etc..
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- Founder & CTO Mia - Platform, Mia - Platform
As founder and CTO of Mia-Platform I help enterprises to build their digital assets moving from legacy systems and silos organizations to cloud native platforms and open governance organizations. My principal focus are:- API and Cloud Native platforms - Data Streams, Fast Data and Data Mesh solutions - DevOps value stream platforms - Omnichannel experience: mobile, voice, touch, type, web
Haley is originally from the Pacific Northwest. In 2016, she decided to leave her hometown for the Bay Area, which she is lucky to call home now. She is responsible for providing support to all sponsors, speakers and exhibitors. Prior to joining DevNetwork, Haley worked at a non-profit organization for 4+ years, where she planned a range of events and provided support to speakers and exhibitors. In her spare time, she enjoys discovering new Bay Area restaurants and relaxing by her backyard garden.
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- DevOps Coach, Chief
- Owner, Carapace Limited
Helen Beal is a DevOps coach, Chief Ambassador at DevOps Institute and an ambassador for the Continuous Delivery Foundation. She is the Chair of the Value Stream Management Consortium and provides strategic advisory services to DevOps leaders. She is also an analyst at Accelerated Strategies Group. She hosts the Day-to-Day DevOps webinar series for BrightTalk, speaks regularly on DevOps topics, is a DevOps editor for InfoQ and also writes for a number of other online platforms. She regularly appears in TechBeacon's DevOps Top100 lists and was recognized as the Top DevOps Evangelist 2020 in the DevOps Dozen awards.
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- VP, Developer Relations & Community, MongoDB
Leading Developer Relations & Community at MongoDB. Previously, I led Startup Solutions Architecture and Developer Relations & Evangelism at Amazon Web Services.
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- Senior Engineering Manager
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- Director of Product Marketing at EDB
- Global Director of Product Marketing, EDB Postgres
Jan Karremans is the Director of Product Marketing at EDB, providing in-depth insights and on PostgreSQL. With over 25 years of experience in the database market and a former qualified Oracle ACE, Jan is a well-respected expert in relational database technologies, speaking regularly at conferences around the globe.
He began his career working for the Royal Dutch Army. While there Jan supported the switch to Oracle Database 7.1 on a Micro VAX 3100.
On a parallel track in his career, Jan moved into sales and consultancy as Business Development Manager for New Zealand based and operated Dbvisit.
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- Strategy Consultant, Pasqal
Jean-Charles Cabelguen has a PhD in Science from ENSAM ParisTech and 14 years of experience in Research, M&A and in international business development. For him blockchain is more than a technology, it is a strategy. He is Chief of Innovation & Adoption at iExec, a major actor leveraging decentralized technologies like Blockchain and Trusted Execution Environment. Jean-Charles is also the chair of the Trusted Compute working group at Enterprise Ethereum Alliance. That is why he focuses on breakthrough projects in Blockchain, AI, Big Data, Edge computing and IoT.
Jeanavive works on the business development team of DevNetwork, with a focus on growth and expansion into new industries and audiences. A Bay Area California Native, she is well connected to the pulse of San Francisco and always has been an early tech adopter. She is creative, enthusiastic, and motivated to help companies with their Lead Gen goals. She lives in a Bay Area waterfront country town and enjoys long walks and drives in her vintage car on the weekends.
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- Head of Product Engineering at Redgate
Jeff is Head of Product Engineering at Redgate. He leads continuous improvement across engineering and is responsible for setting the technical strategy and maintaining a focus on the trends that shape our industry. He works closely with everyone in development to create an environment that creates a culture of continuous improvement.
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- Chief Architect for App Services
Joao has been a key figure in driving digital innovation in open banking by leading the technology developments at Yapily, providing the best financial APIs and services for fintech developers. Worked closely with the UK Open Banking Implementation Entity to pioneer the globally recognised open banking API specification. He is a strong advocate for building products with the greatest user experience. In the API industry users are the developers and he is very focused on delivering dev tools with the best developer experience. Has been an entrepreneur, angel investor, startups advisor, and codes for fun during the weekends.
Johnny is an experienced developer, DevOps, architect and team leader. He has worked with a wide variety of customers - from small startups to large enterprises. He has a deep understanding of the challenges facing modern companies looking to move to a secure, agile, always-on and highly available platform.
Jonathan Pasky is the co-founder of DevNetwork. He is also the co-founder of Techweek and a patent attorney and principal at Pasky IP, a boutique intellectual property law firm. Previously, he was Chief Legal Officer at FanFound, a Chicago-based music startup. Jon is a mentor at Excelerate Labs, on the Board of Directors of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, and has served as a judge for numerous competitions, including SeedCon (University of Chicago Booth School of Business) and the City of Chicago's Small Business Competiton. Additionally, he has served as a guest lecturer at DePaul University. Jon delivers legal and business development expertise to clients and teams, bringing insight to startup strategy regarding innovation and technology.
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- Global Technologist / Veeam
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- Senior Data Science Executive, Accenture
- Senior Principal at Accenture Analytics
Jürgen Weichenberger is a data science senior principal at Accenture Analytics, where he is currently working within resources industries with interests in smart grids and power, digital plant engineering, and optimization for upstream industries and the water industry. Jürgen has over 15 years of experience in engineering consulting, data science,big data, and digital change. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his family and playing golf and tennis. Jürgen holds a master's degree (with first-class honors) in applied computer science and bioinformatics from the University of Salzburg.
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- Chief Scientific Officer, MetaLynx
Kanwal completed her PhD from Imperial College London in 2007. She has worked in machine learning since, primarily focused on computer vision for healthcare applications. After periods in both academic and industrial research, she moved into startups to be able to commercialise ML research. In 2020 she founded her own startup, MetaLynx, aimed at providing companies with the infrastructure needed to implement their own computer vision systems. Her published research has gained over 1300 citations and she has been on the organising committee of several international conference workshops, including chairing the 1st ICML Workshop on Machine Learning Meets Medical Imaging.
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- Chief Innovation Officer / Level Access
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- Developer Advocate - Infrastructure, HashiCorp
Kerim is a senior developer advocate at HashiCorp, where he works on creating a positive experience for infrastructure operators.
He is passionate about complex systems and enjoys the challenge of codifying them.
Before he joined HashiCorp, Kerim worked at a variety of companies, ranging from cultural institutions and aviation to government services.
Founder of Allcancode - the most open low-code platform for custom web & mobile app development that generates code for popular frameworks. Previously founder of an advanced medical imaging software company (Evorad). Involved in R&D and technical leadership for several software products in industries such as engineering, healthcare, banking/finance, and media. Most projects required state-of-the-art technologies and some of them produced software that was delivered to millions of users around the world.
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- Principal
- Principal Technical Evangelist, SUSE
Lukonde is a Principal Technical Evangelist at SUSE and an AWS Container Hero. He is part of the SUSE & Rancher Community team and has years of experience in application development, cloud engineering, and DevOps workflows. He is a life-long learner and is passionate about sharing knowledge and contributing to the developer community through content such as technical articles, conference talks, live webinars, and on-demand videos. Nowadays, Lukonde spends the majority of his time contributing to the cloud-native community with the SUSE & Rancher team, providing content, training, and support in the Kubernetes ecosystem and SUSE's open-source container management stack.
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- Senior Software Architect
- CTO, Cubbit
Marco Moschettini is a senior software architect, graduated from the University of Bologna. Forbes under 30, Marco is a co-founder of Cubbit, where he leads the technological development as CTO.A tech enthusiast since early age, he has specialized in web development and cyber-security, scaling projects up to tens of thousands of users already during high school.At the University he then further specialized in distributed and peer-to-peer systems with a degree thesis on decentralized cloud storage, laying down the foundations of Cubbit's cryptographic architecture.
Veteran in the mobile industry, developing platforms bringing developers and the telecom world together for 20+ years. At EMnify Martin revolutionised mobile core infrastructure by building the first cloud-native super network purposed built for the internet of things. His main mission is the democratisation of cellular connectivity and giving it with an API-first approach into the hands of developers as "Connectivity as Code".
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- CEO, Ably
- Technical Co - Founder of Ably
Matthew O'Riordan is the technical co-founder of Ably, a global cloud messaging service which provides APIs used by thousands of developers and businesses. Matthew has been a programmer for over 20 years and first started working on commercial internet projects in the mid 90s, when Internet Explorer 3 and Netscape were still battling it out. Whilst he enjoys coding, the challenges he faces as an entrepreneur starting and scaling businesses is what drives him. Matthew has previously started and successfully exited from two previous tech businesses.
Max Kordek is a globally recognized crypto entrepreneur. At just 24 years old, Max founded Lisk, a platform for blockchain applications written in JavaScript. Together with his co-founder, blockchain industry veteran Oliver Beddow, Max raised over 14,000 BTC for Lisk's ICO in 2016 and within the same year founded Lightcurve, a leading blockchain development studio based in Berlin.
Since co-founding Lisk, Max has become increasingly involved in the global crypto community, speaking at many of the top blockchain conferences in the world. Today, Max is working relentlessly to help the industry gain traction with Lisk's easy-to-use software development kit.
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- Co - Founder, Liquid Reply
Max is Co-Founder and Cloud Native Advocate at Liquid Reply based in Munich. In the past years, he builds cloud-native, cloud agnostic solutions on/with Kubernetes. Lately, he drives the platform engineering topic with various clients to simplify the current challenges with complex target environments. At night he works within the Kubernetes release team.
Micha has extensive experience in creating intuitive and powerful productivity tools for software developers. He is the founder of Paw, a company that publishes a fully-featured collaborative API Client and Design tool on Mac. Paw was acquired by RapidAPI in 2020. Since then, Micha puts his efforts in building a suite of tools for API development.
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- CEO, Heuro Labs GmbH
- Founder & CEO of Heuro Labs
Mohamed Sayed is the founder & CEO of Heuro Labs. Heuro Labs mission is to help you and your organization tackle complex, data heavy, knowledge rich processes to make sense of your data and unearth the hidden value within it.
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- Head of Developer Relations, Entor
Natalie is an avid learner and question asker, an OpenAI ambassador, a Google Developer Expert for Go, a public speaker and a sailor.
Currently she is heading everything tech related at a Stealth Mode startup, organizing tech conferences (Security, SRE, AI and Go), and the Berlin chapters of the Go and Women Techmakers user groups.
She worked in 4 continents as a Lead Developer Advocate, Engineering Manager, Software and Hardware Engineer, and a Co-Founder of a mobile start-up. In her free time, she is wondering if there is life on Mars.
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- Director of DevSecOps, Pearson
Builder of an award winning security engineering function and leader of a team of highly skilled engineers. Driving a DevSecOps transformation within Pearson with the goal of enabling product teams to become responsible for their own security. 11 years experience working in IT across engineering and security focused roles.
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- Vice President of Engineering / PlanetScale
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- Head of Developer Advocacy, Api7
Developer Advocate with 15+ years experience consulting for many different customers, in a wide range of contexts (such as telecoms, banking, insurances, large retail and public sector). Usually working on Java/Java EE and Spring technologies, but with focused interests like Rich Internet Applications, Testing, CI/CD and DevOps. Also double as a trainer and triples as a book author.
20 years of experience in hands-on R&D management, from start-ups to large-scale organizations. My expertise covers the full life cycle of technology products both from technical and business aspects.
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- Cloud Security Architect, Cyscale
Founder of Cyscale - https://cyscale.com - Cloud Native - Automated Cloud SecurityOWASP Cluj-Napoca Chapter Leader. Cybersecurity enthusiast with over 15 years of experience in the field of information technology, working with Go, Big Data, Python and Linux. I worked as Software Developer at Sophos, Security Engineer at CoSoSys where I developed Endpoint Protector and sensitivity.io. Before Cyscale, I was responsible of the entire Security Department for QiO https://qio.io - Industrial IoT.At CoSoSys, I led the development of its flagship award-winning Data Loss Prevention Solution, Endpoint Protector. I enjoy giving back to the community and riding my motorcycle.
Docker and Kubernetes Advocate. I am currently Founder @Okteto (www.okteto.com) helping companies to accelerate their development workflows for microservices.
Paul van den Broek focuses on delivering value and solving user problems by building & marketing products & user experiences. In his Product Manager role at Coosto, a SaaS solution for content & social media marketing, he drives and guards product decisions. He shapes product vision & strategy and aligns this with market needs and company's growth goals. His interests, experience, and enthusiasm in media technologies makes him a versatile and passionate product aficionado. With a background in UI/UX, web development and marketing, Paul is determined to build products that deliver value and help users make better versions of themselves.
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- CEO & Principal Architect, Medialesson GmbH
Founder & CEO of medialesson GmbH. I help my customers design, architect, build and operate modern, beautiful and useable Apps that run on any platform as a consultant, architect and trainer. I teach Interface Design at the Pforzheim University and engage with the community as a speaker at conferences and user groups and organizer of code camps and hackathons. I was selected as one of the one hundred creative talents by the European Union. I was awarded a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) every year since 2013. In 2017 I was accepted into the Microsoft Regional Director Program.
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- Product Manager - Technical, App Modernization
Robert is a Bay Area transplant from North Carolina. He moved to San Francisco in 2012 and is grateful to still be able to call San Francisco his home. Since, he's worked in Business Development at various start-ups in San Francisco, including Trulia (acquired by Zillow in 2015), and VerticalResponse (acquired by Deluxe Corp) in 2014. Robert also spent time in sponsor sales at a conference company, who's portfolio includes Black Hat, Interop, Game Developers Conference (GDC), InformationWeek and HDI. Robert is a technology enthusiast and customer evangelist. He graduated from the University of North Carolina Wilmington with a B.S. Degree in Finance. On his time off, he enjoys running the endless amount of trails in Marin County, travelling, and riding his motorcycle up Highway 1.
CTO and CoFounder at Cycode, with extensive experience in cybersecurity and product development. Former founder of FileLock, which was acquired by Reason Security in 2018, a serial entrepreneur and former Unit 8200 officer of the Israel Defense Forces.
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- Developer Relations, StepZen
Roy is an entrepreneur, speaker and author from The Netherlands and, in his own words, 'wants to make the world a better place through tech'. He has been giving talks and training to developers worldwide on technologies like GraphQL, React and TypeScript. Most recently he wrote the book Fullstack GraphQL.
Serial tech entrepreneur from age 18 and the founder of Appsmakerstore.com, a SaaS for making Mobile Apps. Field of expertise mobile apps, SaaS, technology, telecom, business processes, go to marked, bootstrapping, sales, B2B, cross culture trends, active fly-fisher and family man.
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- CEO and Co - Founder of Frontegg
Sagi Rodin is the CEO and Co-Founder of Frontegg. Over the last 15 years, Sagi held senior product and software development positions leading engineering and product teams,
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- Senior Consultant, Capgemini
I have a Bachelors of Technology in Computer Science Engineering From Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology (GGSIP University, India). I am a Business intelligence consultant / developer with 5.5 years of professional experience in designing, developing, testing and maintaining the solutions in an agile team. I love exploring new technologies and eager to learn and worked on cloud technologies with Microsoft stack knowledge with a expertise in Mendix, Azure, CICD, Power BI and MicroStrategy as an onsite coordinator , efficient team member and consultant.
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- Cloud Solution Architect, Microsoft
Sharona is a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft specialized in Data & AI, with a focus on industries like retail, agri, and manufacturing. She has gathered her experience by hands-on data projects by working for Microsoft Consultancy companies and a Dutch international bank.Sharona combines her love for data and technology, and business by working together with eg data engineers, architects, and C-level. She considers having the right strategy in place as the most important part in every cloud and data journey. Tackling challenges and come up with reliable and future proof solutions is what she does.
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- Owner of 72 Services LLC
- Senior Software Architect, 72 Services LLC
Simon Martinelli is the owner of 72 Services LLC and a passionate application modernization and integration expert with more than 25 years experience as a developer, architect, and technical lead. As an active member of the Java community process, he has made key contributions to JSR-352 Batch Applications, JSR-354 Money, and Currency API. In addition to coaching and teaching clients to optimize their business applications, he has been an Adjunct Professor at Berne University of Applied Science in Switzerland since 2007.
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- Chief Product Officer / Ivanti
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- Sales Leader
- GM & VP, Netfoundry ( Management Advisory Board )
Stefan Johansson is a sales leader with nearly 25 years of experience in sales leadership and GTM operational roles. Mr. Johansson has European and LATAM responsibility for all aspects related to revenue growth and go-to-market strategy at NetFoundry, a security driven cloud native networking company. His 25-year career includes sales and GTM leadership roles at start ups as well as larger enterprise software companies such as Cisco, Canonical, DBCE, Citrix and IBM. His extensive experience covers DevOps-, IoT-, security-, network- and cloud domains.
Mr. Johansson has earned an MSC, Engineering Physics from Chalmers University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
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- Chief Technology Officer at Viewnary
- Chief Technology Officer, Viewnary, Inc
Stephan is Chief Technology Officer at Viewnary, where he oversees the Engineering and Data Science organizations, including leading the Infrastructure, IT, and Information Security teams, as well as managing Engineering across functions like Payments, Trust, and Community Support. Stephan combines technology expertise with a genuine passion for leveraging technology to advance Viewnary's mission, placing community at the center of everything we do and every technical decision we make.
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- Principal Director, Cloud Engineering, Nuvalence
In my 15 years of professional experience I have worked in a variety of technology disciplines - with an emphasis on backend/infrastructure engineering. I have found a real passion for data technology platforms, and the technology which powers those tools. In the last few years my work has focused on cloud infrastructure, automation, and scaling of those data platforms through DevOps - whether it be via coding/scripting, deployment & configuration management tools (e.g. Chef, Ansible), and containerization/Kubernetes.
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- Software Engineering Manager
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- Cloudinary 's CTO
- CTO, Cloudinary Ltd
Tal Lev-Ami is Cloudinary's CTO and one of its Co-founders. Tal has extensive professional and academic background in software engineering, software architecture, security and program analysis. Tal's professional background includes being Chief Architect in technology startups Trivnet and Blue Security and founding of Ndivi, a boutique software development company. Tal has a PhD in computer science from Tel-Aviv University. Tal has three children and lives in Modiin, Israel.
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- Founder, Actual Reports OÜ
I've been building and managing software products for over ten years. Although I have a strong software engineering background, I have shifted my focus to product management, especially leading API products and building API strategies. I like software as service products that help people solve their problems and be more productive.
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- Director of Product Management, UX & Design / Trevipay
Uwe Friedrichsen travels the world of IT for many years, having worn many different hats. As CTO of codecentric AG he is always evaluating the ideas of tomorrow to make them approachable today.
Victoria van Roosmalen navigates others towards informed and thoughtful actions by sharing her expertise in IT, cybersecurity, and privacy-related affairs. As a CISO & DPO, she drives the information security and privacy governance at Coosto-an all-in-one social media management solution ranked no. 1 in the Netherlands. She is an ambassador of ISACA's SheLeadsTech program, serves the IAPP within the Training Advisory Board, and participates in working groups of new industry standards and materials. Committed to empowering a brighter future, Victoria is determined to help others stay ahead and reveal the seemingly impossible yet possible.
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- Developer
- Developer Advocate, Upbound
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- Senior Software Engineer, Netflix
Vivek is a data enthusiast and has worked with managing and wrangling data for more than a decade. He is currently developing and managing several petabytes store on Netflix's Machine Learning Platform. Before Netflix, he has worked at Apple, Sumologic, and Amazon in similar roles.
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- CTO, Working Group Two AS
Werner Eriksen has spent most of his career building next generation technologies in the mobile industry. Werner started his career at Ericsson, spending more than a decade as a developer and systems architect on ATM, VoIP and IMS. As VP of Engineering at Telio, he discovered the power of open source tools when combined with focused engineering teams. During his tenure at Telenor he built the foundations for the team that later spun out and became Working Group Two.
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- Learning & Development Expert, CTG Belgium
Wim Decoutere started a testing career at CTG Belgium over 15 years ago and has been testing at a number of companies ever since.. He's passionate about teaching and feels at home when standing in front of a classroom. That's why he became a full-time trainer, coaching and teaching about the wonderful world of testing but also ISTQB, IREB, IQBBA, test design techniques, soft skills, etc… As a veteran youth instructor with a passion for learning theories and people management, Wim is constantly looking for new ideas to improve his own performance and that of the entire team.
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- EVP Platform & Growth, Kaltura
Chief Trouble Maker & head of Kaltura's Special Ops. Executive Vice President, Platform & Growth at Kaltura. I head an SBU charged with paving the way for the Kaltura Tech OEM business and Strategic Initiatives featuring business and tech ninjas tasked with fuelling growth multipliers via new business verticals and products, strategic partnerships and acquisitions. Together we're forging new impactful ways to leverage smart video experiences in every industry. I am passionate about bringing people, ideas and technology together developing early ideas and turning chaos env's into successful business and product initiatives through advocacy, innovation, tech and community.