APIDAYS - Key Persons
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- Developer
- Developer Advocate at Solace
Aaron Lee is Solace's Developer Advocate of the CTO Team, responsible for driving the growth of Solace developer community. Aaron is being the "voice of the user" for external developers to the Solace Product Development team to make products easier to use and more suitable for developers.
Prior to taking the developer Advocate role, Aaron was the Solution Architect at Solace. He helped support key global customers such as like JP Morgan, Citibank, HSBC and Standard Chartered Bank in Asia Pacific and Japan region. He joined Solace in 2011 and has helped clients evaluate, architect, and maximize their utility of Solace technology. Aaron was also held a position as senior professional services consulting in Solace.
Aaron has extensive experience in financial services industry. He involved in major projects including building detailed Solace monitoring infrastructure at Barclays, architecting bonds trading platform at BGC, working with Hong Kong Jockey Club on the next-generation betting platform as well as supporting Royal Bank of Canada in developing the equities trading platform.
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- Head of Customer Engineering ( APAC ) at Hasura
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- Founder & CEO of APIMatic
- Founding CEO of APIMatic
Adeel Ali is the founding CEO of APIMatic, an SDK-first developer experience platform for APIs. Adeel holds a Ph.D. in the domain of web-based APIs automation. He is constantly driven by the desire to do things better, whether that is making APIs easy to consume, or running a business. Besides APIMatic, Adeel loves reading, traveling, and playing cricket.
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- Compute SA Leader, Asia - Pacific & Japan at AWS
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- Customer Success Engineer at Solo.Io
Alvonn Limjoco is a specialist senior manager at Deloitte Core Business Operations, Platform Engineering. Alvonn's consulting career has a strong focus on managing project teams and hands-on delivery of ICT strategy & architecture, front-end systems, back-end systems and cloud infrastructure. Alvonn's scope of work varies from the strategy, architecture, design and build of enterprise integration solutions, APIs, web apps, custom applications, cloud platforms and cloud-native solutions.
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- Associate Software Engineer at Goldman Sachs
An enthusiastic troubleshooter who embarked on his professional journey at Oracle and later collaborated with diverse consulting and product organizations, including MuleSoft, during a 23-year career. Amjad, along with his dedicated team at Integral Zone, is deeply committed to finding innovative solutions to customer challenges. Four years ago, we introduced the Falcon Suite of products, which has significantly reduced development costs by up to 80% for numerous clients worldwide.
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- Senior Architect
- Architect - API Governance & Platforms at NAB
Andrew Saunders is a Senior Architect leading all things API at NAB. Andrew has been integrating distributed systems since the mid 90's and is a long term strategic thinker with a ceaseless desire to improve and simplify everything.
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- Director - Field Engineering - APAC at Solo.Io
Ashish has spent a large part of the decade building APIs and also designing Go To Market for them. Being part of the field engineering team at solo.io, these days Ashish focuses on creating application networking fabric that brings together APIs and service mesh with Istio.
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- Senior Lead Specialist at Integrated Health Information Systems ( IHIS )
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- Associate Solutions Engineer at Couchbase
Benjamin supports the rapidly growing Couchbase user community and helps drive customer success. He actively manages the technical aspects of a sales engagement, assisting with customer's proof of concept or evaluation of solution to customer's problem.
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- Senior Integration Specialist, Automation at IBM
- Technical Architect for IBM 's Portfolio of Integration Products
Bernd is a Technical Architect for IBM's portfolio of Integration Products including API Connect and Datapower. He has been working for IBM Australia for 6 years now after leading the Technical SME team for Portal and Web Content Management in IBM EMEA.
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- Founder at Hockey Stick Advisory
Bryan Williams is the founder of Hockey Stick Advisory, which exists to help tech businesses to grow & scale through building curated partnership ecosystems, so that they can reach their full potential, faster. His clients include the likes of Australian Tech Council, Tractor Ventures, NZTE, Uber. Bryan is also a leading expert in the APAC partnerships space, leading the Partnerships Leader community, and advises industry events such as Pause Awards & SXSW Sydney.
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- Principal Director and Practice Lead - Data Integration, API and Security at Foryouandyourcustomers
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- Principal Solution Consultant at DocuSign
I am an advocate of all things digital, particularly in the space of business transformation and end-user experience management. I am incredibly passionate when it comes to helping businesses connect data, design and technology to deliver highly personalised experiences that will allow the brand to build a truly lasting and rewarding relationship with the customers and partners in the long term.
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- Software Engineer II at Government Technology Agency of Singapore ( GovTech )
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- Senior Software Engineer at Government Technology Agency of Singapore ( GovTech )
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- Director at APIsFirst and Co - Lead of Women in APIs
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- Automation Chief Architect and Technical Lead at IBM
Claudio Tag is the IBM Automation Chief Architect in Asia Pacific, leading the Technical Sales team in the region, and has vast experience in Digital Transformation and the world of Cloud. He is passionate about technology, and how it has shaped business change in the 21st century.Making the "complicated" "business as usual" has been Tag's focus in his 10+ years career in technical sales.
Through his work as C-suite trusted advisor and domain expert for IBM's and Red Hat's ground-breaking technologies, Tag has gained significant insight into today's senior IT stakeholders' motivations. He has led several technical sales teams across geos and technology domains: from process automation to private cloud, from containerization to open source software.
Tag also worked in various IBM labs, and presented his work at several conferences around the world, focusing on Public and Private Cloud, Kubernetes, Automation, Integration, Microservices Architectures, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. He is an open source evangelist, thought leader in Agile Integration and Cloud Orchestration & AI Operations, and author of three IBM Redbook publications.
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- Software Engineer
- Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Dasith is a polyglot software engineer with distributed systems focus, keen problem solver and an improving cricketer. He's got close to 2 decades of experience designing and building software solutions and loves all things technology. After leading the development of an ERP solution for the construction industry and working on trade printing software for a while he used to work as a lead consultant for Readify and currently practices his trade as an Software Engineer for Microsoft working in the Commercial Software Engineering team. As a developer/consultant over the last few years he's worked on a broad technology stack which consists of all things from Serverless to IoT. He is a recovering competitive fps gamer who still talks about things like mouse sensitivity and ping over a frothy beverage.
With over 20 years of industry experience, David's focus is on building API programs, developer programs and monetizing company assets through APIs. Before starting Sonrai, David was a general manager in Telstra and executed Telstra's API Strategy by building a strategic API platform using Apigee OPDK, and in 2017 led a team to build Telstra's public and monetised APIs developer program on Apigee SaaS. Recently, through Sonrai, David has been helping medium and large Australian companies on their API journey with building API platforms, APIs, developer portals and improving API programs.
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- Software Developer at Marlo
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- Principal Solutions Engineer at Confluent
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- VP of Engineering at Endowus
Product Engineering Lead with a track record of delivering green-field initiatives in complex domains within global organizations. 17+ years of experience with leading-edge technologies spanning cloud infrastructure, front & back office equities and enterprise middleware products. Experienced in and passionate about building & growing high-performing agile software delivery teams.
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- Solutions Engineering Manager at Akamai
- Solutions Engineering Manager for Akamai Technologies
Dominic Lovell is the Solutions Engineering Manager for Akamai Technologies across Australia and New Zealand. Dominic has a strong technical background in web development, cloud and cybersecurity. Prior to Akamai he ran the development team for one of Australia's largest ecommerce brands.
As API strategist, Matthias helps clients discover their opportunities for innovation with APIs & ecosystems and turn them into actionable digital strategies. Based on his experience in leading large-scale API initiatives in both business and technology roles, he shares best practices and provides both strategic and practical guidance. He has stayed a techie at heart and at some point, got a Ph.D. Matthias publishes a blog at api-university.com, is the author of several books on APIs, and regularly speaks at technology conferences.
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- CEO of Tasktop Technologies
- CTO of Planview, Author of Project to Product
Dr. Mik Kersten is the CEO of Tasktop Technologies, creator and leader of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project and inventor of the task-focused interface. As a research scientist at Xerox PARC, Mik implemented the first aspect-oriented programming tools for AspectJ. He created Mylyn and the task-focused interface during his PhD in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. Mik has been an Eclipse committer since 2002, is an elected member of the Eclipse Board of Directors and serves on the Eclipse Architecture and Planning councils. Mik's thought leadership on task-focused collaboration makes him a popular speaker at software conferences, and he was voted a JavaOne Rock Star speaker in 2008 and 2009. Mik enjoys building tools that offload our brains and make it easier to get creative work done.
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- Head of Technology and Data Risk at Bendigo and Adelaide Bank
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- Author & OpenAPI Initiative Ambassador
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- Chief Product Owner ATM Twin, Airspace Mobility Solutions at Thales
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- Solution Architect
- Tecnnical Manager, Australia & New Zealand at Couchbase
Gautam is an accomplished Solution Architect, DevOps Engineer with Machine Learning Operations skills with over a decade of industry experience in the design, architect, management and delivery of a variety of software solutions and services to the clients internationally, with primary focus on Solution Architect and design, DevOps, CI/CD, Automation for highly sophisticated and performant enterprise grade systems including Training, Deployment and Scoring pipelines for Machine Learning Models. Cloud Computing. His rich experience and desire to continuously learn and grow drives him to research, apply practical knowledge gained over the years to design and deliver best projects on par with industry standards.
Gautam is a focused individual with the ability to work collaboratively within diverse teams in multi-stakeholder client facing settings and is recognised as a highly professional and knowledgeable. He is seeking exciting new career opportunities to expand his horizons and continue to grow.
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- Head of Field Engineering - APJ at Couchbase
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- Co - Founder Open / Banking
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- Founder & CEO of Greenie Web
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- Integration Domain Architect
- Specialist Director - Integration at Deloitte
Ian Hendry is an Integration Domain Architect with over 25 years' experience specialising in solving the integration needs of large-scale corporate enterprises. Starting out with clinical healthcare integration, Ian's journey has taken in a wide range of industries including the Financial Services and Insurance, Retail, Telecom, Utilities, Manufacturing and Government sectors. Ian's experience has given him a strong view of best-practice integration architecture that provides optimal yet pragmatic solutions to meet immediate business needs that also deliver meaningful long-term strategic benefits.
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- Accessibility Lead and Content Developer at Nuna
Ilona is Technical Documentation Manager and part of Twitch's Developer Relations team. She enables people from all backgrounds and disciplines to be more effective through documentation that is crystal clear, actionable, and inclusive. A University of Pennsylvania graduate, she has pioneered and driven the highest standards in technical documentation quality during her 20+ year career. She is involved with API Days Women in APIs initiative as a mentor and a leader of our new "4 Steps to Speaking" program. Through her volunteer work, she is Communications Lead on the TechWomen Alumnae Council, and is actively engaged in encouraging girls to pursue STEM careers and supporting women in the tech space.
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- Director of Sales and Partnerships at Standard Chartered Nexus
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- Customer Engineer at Google
- Customer Engineer for Google Cloud
Ivan Niccolai is a Specialist Customer Engineer for Google Cloud in Australia & New Zealand, focusing on Apigee. In his role, Ivan is responsible for evangelising Google Cloud's Apigee offering to customers and partners in the region. Prior to joining Google Cloud in 2019, Ivan spent fifteen years in security advisory and as a published industry analyst. As a 15+ year veteran in the IT industry, Ivan has worked with customers across many industries, with particular depth in financial services, higher education, and logistics. Ivan resides in Melbourne, Australia
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- CTO for Hire & Founder at FrontGate.App
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- Security Solution Architect at NGINX ( Part of F5 )
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- Principal Data Architect ( APJ ) at Datastax
An experienced Data & Solution architect providing middleware and data solutions. I have worked with customers across APAC to help with their digital transformation journey, and application/data modernization using different technologies (e.g Kubernetes, Cassandra, Kafka, Pulsar, etc) and public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure and GCP)
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- Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
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- Head of Product Management for Credit Services SEA
- Head of Product Management, Asia Pacific at Experian
Jene is the Head of Product Management for Credit Services SEA where she's responsible for the product development for various consumer and business information such as ACRA, litigation, alternative data, credit bureau data, international credit data, which are made available via various platforms. Such platforms include QuestNet, Bank Bureau, Non-Bank Bureau and also various APIs. During her 3+ years in Experian, she's led the team through a major rebrand of our reports and platforms from DP Information Group to Experian, launched the new ACRA APIs to enable instant account opening by banks, coordinated various tech upgrades, and also launched various other products such as International Report platform, enhanced monitoring service, Ascend (our big data analytics platform), new scores and score monitoring services.
Jene is currently also an Executive Committee Member of the SGTech Digital Trust Committee.
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- Founder and CEO of FireTail
Jeremy is the founder and CEO at FireTail, an API security platform with a mission to secure the world's APIs. An industry veteran, Jeremy worked as an IT and cybersecurity practitioner for 10 years before transitioning into cloud and cybersecurity for new markets with companies such as AWS, Cambridge Intelligence and DivvyCloud. Jeremy is fluent in seven languages, which gives him unique and valuable skills for analyzing data and building technology solutions.
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- Co - Founder and CEO at Smile
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- Enterprise Solutions Architect - Integration at Software AG
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- Customer Engineer at Google Cloud
Joey is a Customer Engineer at Google Cloud for over 5 years in New York and Sydney, working with large financial institutions and retailers on their API Programs and Digital Transformations.
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- Solutions Engineer at Okta
John is a highly accomplished Senior Solutions Engineer at Okta in Singapore with 15+ years of experience as a Solutions Architect - excelling in software development across embedded systems, firmware, web apps, and Sass. He enjoys working with customers and helping them achieve their identity goals. He recently earned the APAC Presales Award and a place in the President's Club, reflecting his exceptional results and commitment to excellence.
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- Director of Climate Arks Pty Ltd
With a career in architecture and urban design, John is now one of Australia's innovation leaders for Ocean Technology and Ocean Carbon Removal solutions. He could be considered a physical world (not digital) "Cloud Engineer" as he has developed a number of solutions to reduce the localised temperature of oceans through marine cloud brightening technologies. He has also co-developed solutions for carbon removal and extraction, linked to floating biodiversity islands called "Climate Arks".
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- Founder & CEO of Blue Connector, and Organizer of Apidays Singapore Mehdi Medjaoui, Author, Founder and Chairman of Apidays Conferences
- Founder and CEO of Blue Connector, and Organizer
Jon Scheele provides IT strategy, data analytics, security, interoperability and industry specific consulting and training to management and workgroups at leading companies in the financial services and telecommunications industries. Jon also trains, coaches and mentors to develop high performing teams and identifies how to apply emerging technologies to meet evolving customer needs.
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- Senior Enterprise Solutions Architect at Postman
Jordan Walsh is a Senior Enterprise Solutions Architect at Postman. He has over 15 years of experience in the technology industry, and has worked on a variety of projects, including web products, mobile applications, and APIs. He is passionate about creating products that solve business problems, delight users, and generate revenue all at the same time.
As a Solutions Architect @ Postman, Jordan helps customers adopt and use Postman to design, develop, and test APIs. He is also responsible for developing and delivering training and education materials on Postman.
Jordan is a strong advocate for the use of APIs and believes that they are essential for the future of the technology industry. He is excited to share his knowledge and experience with the APIDays community and help them learn more about APIs and how to use them effectively.
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- Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
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- Cloud Engineer at Wesfarmers OneDigital
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- Cyber Partner at Deloitte
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- Technical Account Manager at New Relic
Ken Chua has been using New Relic for 5 years as a frontend developer, a scrum master and project manager. Through his experience of containerising and migrating applications on to AWS, he has relied on New Relic's Observability capabilities to ensure the uptime and resiliency of his applications. He liked New Relic so much that he decided to join as a Technical Account Manager to help customers better realise the value and features of New Relic.
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- Sustainability Lead, Southeast Asia at Capgemini
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- Director, Solutions Engineering APAC at NGINX ( Part of F5 ) Laurent
Petroque is the Director for Solutions Engineering for the NGINX APAC BU within the F5 organisation, where he leads a team of technical solutions engineers in supporting customers and partners. Based in Singapore now for the past 3 years, Laurent is originally from France, and has been with F5 for several years.
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- Principal, APIs and Product Engineering at Terem
Leon's entire career since gaining a Masters degree in Information Systems & Technology in 1996 has been spent on genuinely disruptive digital solutions. With a background in humanities and a passion for art and design, he likes to apply a human-experience lens to everything he works on.
Starting with the NetChannel UK Web-TV platform during the 1990s dotcom boom, he moved to Australia in 1998 and focused his career on job board, recruitment and HR systems.
Leon designed and implemented Australia's first commercial web service with 1999's Jobnet Autoload product, and worked on pioneering SaaS recruitment platform HRX (now PeopleScout) until 2011.
Using these experiences as a foundation for a career in consulting, he now specialises in whole-of-business digital integration and API Management. He currently heads up Terem's API and Platform Engineering business in Sydney, advising businesses on API strategy from the smallest startup to the largest government agencies.
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- Position of Principal Engineering Manager at National Australia Bank
- Principal Engineering Manager at NAB
Liam Ford currently holds the position of Principal Engineering Manager at National Australia Bank. In this role, he leads a highly skilled Integration Design and Governance team and is responsible for ensuring that integration standards are adhered to, and appropriate patterns are utilized.
Additionally, Liam and his team provide Design Services to customers, which includes designing integration patterns, establishing standards and governance, and creating designs for APIs, events, and microservices.
Liam brings over 20 years of experience in Java Web Application Development across various industries. He is a certified developer in AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and Apache Kafka.
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- Senior Solutions Architect at Google
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- Head of Engineering, South East Asia at Oliver Wyman
• My areas of expertise range from digital transformations to data management, data science and agile delivery of innovative technology solutions. I advise business leaders, CIOs and CTOs on topics including A.I./machine learning, cloud, digital architecture and more, to translate their technology investments into accelerated growth and cost savings.
• An Engineering and People Leader with experience in delivering complex high technology products in small, medium, and large organizations with all types and sizes of budget and portfolio management - Passionate about building world-class engineering teams creating a culture that fosters.
• Can start a group just as an individual contributor, become an architect, a coder to mentor people, plan budgets and build portfolios to grow to large size teams. Equally capable of taking existing teams.
• Totally believe with a proven record that start-up like momentum, energy, healthy environment with on time and quality delivery is possible in large and medium-size organizations.
"You can't talk your way into trust; you have to behave your way into it." Marie-Claire Ross
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- Founding Partner at Osaango
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- Partner, Consulting at Deloitte
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- Chairman
- Founder
- Author, Founder and Chairman of Apidays Conferences Jon Scheele, Founder & CEO of Blue Connector, and Organizer of Apidays Singapore
- Founder & Chairman of Apidays / Founder of OAuth.Io ( Acquired )
Mehdi Medjaoui is the founder of APIdays conferences series worldwide, that he started in 2012 in Paris. He is highly involved in the API community and API Industry, and is a current author, lecturer, consultant and investor in the API space. In 2011 he co-founded OAuth.io, a SaaS OAuth API middleware for OAuth integration and implementation used by 40,000+ developers, that had been acquired in December 2017. His research involves publishing the API Industry Landscape and the yearly State of Banking APIs.
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- Cloud Governance Service Owner at Bendigo and Adelaide Bank
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- Principal Solutions Consultant at New Relic
Nan has 20 years of experience in IT software delivery, working for Accenture, IBM, Red Hat, and VMware Tanzu in various roles such as consultant, architect, and delivery lead. He has extensive experience in DevOps, cloud-native, and Dataops technologies. Currently, Nan is a Principal Consultant at New Relic APJ, leading strategic initiatives to improve customer experience through observability.
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- CTO & Co - Founder at Mission Plus
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- Director - WoVG Data Integration ( API Capability ) Service at the Department of Government Services
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- Enterprise Architect at a Leading Bank
Nilesh is passionate about software development and lives with a very simple motto of "Code with Passion and Strive for Excellence". He has over 2 decades of experience in building and designing highly complex enterprise systems. He has spent major part of his career in Banking & Finance industry, Insurance, Retail and healthcare domains. Currently he is working as an Enterprise Architect for a leading Bank in Singapore.
For his excellent technical contributions to developer community, he has been awarded as the Most Valuable Professional by Microsoft since 2018 for Microsoft Azure. When not thinking or talking about technology, Nilesh enjoys the game of Cricket.
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- Executive Director at Elevandi
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- CEO / Chief API Strategist at BeNovelty - Ex - IBM Redbooks Thought Leader
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- COO & Co - Founder at Excelsa
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- Enterprise Solutions Architect - Integration at Software AG
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- API Security & Integration Lead at Broadcom
I am currently responsible for Solution Architecture and Customer Adoption of Broadcom's Identity-centric Security software portfolio within the APJ region.
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- Chief Architect and Head of Technical Specialists, APAC at New Relic
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- Staff Developer Advocate at Okta John Lim, Solutions Engineer at Okta
Pradheepa is a Staff Developer Advocate, Auth0 at Okta, with a real love for backend and open-source technologies. She has worked in enterprise and web technologies for over a decade and has a wealth of experience across multiple industries like Health Care, Media, Banking, Insurance, etc. She loves to read and spends time with her family in her spare time.
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- Principal Architect at MLC Life Insurance
Highly experienced Product lead who has built PM teams towards successful product launch. Led teams by coaching and inspiring PMs, Engg and other stakeholders with product sense and customer values. Have crafted product strategies for PLG to align with organisations mission statements and stakeholders. Highly experienced in translating customer pain points into product values by creating customer journey and product strategy.
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- VP ( Enterprise Architect ) at a Leading Bank
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- Solution Architect at Decision Science Agency
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- Field Engineer - APAC at Solo.Io
- Field Engineer at Solo.Io
Sai is a field engineer at Solo.io and is based out of Singapore. Sai started his career in Networking and had experience in private/public cloud infrastructure solutions for highly regulated security-conscious industrious such as Banking, Financial Services Industries, Aviation, ISPs and Public Sector organizations across APAC Region. Now being part of the field engineering team at solo.io, he focuses on modernizing microservices application networking from Edge to Service Mesh at scale, where the tech stacks are built on Istio, Envoy Proxy, Cilium, built for Kubernetes, VMs & Cloud.
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- Portfolio Product Owner at Telstra
With over 20 years of experience in product ownership and delivery management, Samrat is a passionate and visionary leader who leverages emerging and disruptive technologies to create innovative and secure solutions for customers across various industries. He is currently a Portfolio Product Owner at Telstra, where he is responsible for the strategic direction and execution of cloud-native service orchestration, API, and secured integration products.
Samrat has a proven track record of building complex and high-visibility missions, using agile methodologies, DevOps & DevSecOps practices and human-centric design principles. He has extensive knowledge and skills in cloud computing, service orchestration & integration, API management, cybersecurity, digital transformation, and artificial intelligence, and he has secured a Master of Cyber Security degree to further enhance his expertise and leadership in this domain. Samrat is driven by the mission of empowering customers and stakeholders with value-added and secure business outcomes throughout their digital journey.
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- Principal at Deloitte / AUSTRALIA
Seh Guan started his journey in open source more than fifteen years ago while working at a Fortune 500 data storage company, where he ensured compatibility between hardware components and operating systems as a Product and Partner Lead. In his current role at SUSE, Seh Guan is part of the Sales Engineering team where he supports the sales team and partners across Southeast Asia with his technical expertise in areas such as Linux and Kubernetes. Seh Guan is passionate about open-source technology and is dedicated to contributing to the community in all ways he can. Seh Guan holds a Bachelor Degree of Engineering from Nanyang Technology University.
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- Strategic Pursuits Director, APAC at Red Hat
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- Distinguished Technologist at Infosys
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- APAC Founding Member and Vice President for Strategic Accounts and Customer Operations
- Area Vice President, APAC at DataStax
Simon Molenberg is the APAC founding member and Vice President for strategic accounts and customer operations and enablement at DataStax. He is responsible for building the company's APAC business and visibility in the data management field, and among APAC leaders and key stakeholders across the region.
He has over 30 years of experience in all areas of revenue and profit generation for technology companies and a strong record of accomplishments in the fields of Data Management, API Management, Enterpris
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- Product and Technical Architecture
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- Senior Solution Engineer at Solace
As a Senior Solution Engineer, Steve helps Solace clients design event-driven systems that meet their business and technical requirements in way that's cost- and resource-efficient and can be easily adapted to meet new needs over time. Steve has been helping customers design event-driven systems for over 25 years, most recently with Confluent and with TIBCO for two decades before that. He holds a degree from the University of Sydney, and several AWS, Confluent and Solace certifications.
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- Executive Director, Head of Regional Engagement & Innovation at UOB TMRW Digital Bank
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- Co - Founder at Found & Seek and Facilitator at Climate Fresk Singapore
Versatile Sustainability practitioner driven focused on crafting meaningful connections and cross-generational solidarity. I am an advocate of an enthusiastic, solution-oriented sustainability that taps into the power of collaborative action.
Strongly involved in NGOs, Versatile Sustainability practitioner driven focused on crafting meaningful connections and cross-generational solidarity. I am an advocate of an enthusiastic, solution-oriented sustainability that taps into the power of collaborative action.
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- Head of Developer Experience at Atlassian
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- CEO, Architect, Consultant and Trainer at Predic8 in Bonn
- Managing Director at Predic8 GmbH
Tobias Polley is CEO, architect, consultant and trainer at predic8 in Bonn, Germany. He spends most of his time with developers and architects helping them to become more productive. To enable faster time-to-market, he helps leverage cloud technologies. Together with his customers, he architects, sets up and secures Kubernetes clusters, API gateways as well as CI/CD chains for cloud native applications.
Tobias contributes to several open source projects. He maintains the open source API gateway Membrane Service Proxy which helps companies secure their applications.
Focusing on cloud infrastructure, the interest in distributed systems comes in handy. He is amazed by (in)effective security measures competing with bureaucracy and clearly favors one over the other.
Tobias enjoys doing Yoga with other Ashtangis as well as Middle Eastern cuisine.
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- Solutions Architect at New Relic
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- CEO and Co - Founder at Brankas
Todd Schweitzer is co-founder and CEO at Brankas, the leading Open Banking technology provider in Southeast Asia. Todd founded Brankas in 2016 to address the technology gaps that hindered fintech-bank partnerships. Brankas provides Open Banking technology to banks, insurers, mobile wallets, alternative lenders, and other suppliers and users of financial services APIs. The company has since expanded to Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, and Singapore, and its technology has enabled new fintech products and partnerships that serve millions of users around the region.
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- Software Delivery Manager at Digizoo
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- Board Member at YouTrip
- CEO at Synfindo
Umang leads Synfindo, a technology start-up that is committed to building innovative products for the Financial Services industry. It seeks to enable growth for the financial services industry across the globe, by accelerating collaboration opportunities between Financial Institutions and Fintechs.
He is a transformation leader with over 20 years of business management, operations & technology, client delivery and sales experience with Citigroup, leading business units of up to US$500M across Asia Pacific. He has a track record of crafting and leading change driven by strategy, culture, digitization and automation, aimed at quantum leaps in bottom line, revenues, client delivery and risk mitigation.
Having worked in five Asian countries and led teams of over 3,000 professionals, Umang has demonstrated experience in building empowered teams locally and regionally, and leading transformation across cultures. His cross-functional experience provides him with a unique understanding of the end-to-end connectivity in an organization and the ability to foster relationships across stakeholders.
Umang is a Board Member at YouTrip and has served twice as Secretary of the Singapore Fintech Association. He is also an angel investor.
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- Director at Cyber Security Agency of Singapore
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- Director - Cloud Security Data Security Cloud Integrations Cyber Risk at Deloitte Australia
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- Senior Director and Chief Technology Officer for SUSE for the APJ
- Senior Director and CTO, APJ and Greater China, SUSE
BIO: Vishal Ghariwala is the Senior Director and Chief Technology Officer for SUSE for the APJ and Greater China regions. In this capacity, he engages with customer and partner executives across the region. In addition, he is responsible for growing SUSE's mindshare by being the executive technical voice to the market, press, and analysts. Vishal also has a global charter with the SUSE Office of the CTO to assess relevant industry, market and technology trends to identify growth, partnering and M&A opportunities.
Prior to joining SUSE, Vishal was the Director for Cloud Native Applications at Red Hat where he led a team of senior technologists to drive the growth and adoption of the Red Hat OpenShift, API Management, Integration and Business Automation portfolios across the Asia Pacific region.
Vishal has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry and holds a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
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- Lead Partner, Data & AI Engineering at Deloitte
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- Director, Networked Trade Platform ( NTP ) Office at Singapore Customs
Wai Yee joined the National Trade Platform (NTP) Office in 2017, and she oversees the development as well as operations of the NTP. Her responsibilities spans the spectrum of NTP's business covering both domestic and cross-border transactions, and ranges from driving the commercial and engagement strategies and programmes, innovation and the introduction of new capability in trade digitalisation for both regulatory and non-regulatory transactions, to the day-to-day operations of the NTP. Wai Yee has experience starting new teams and structures, in data analytics, socio-economic policy and industry engagement in various roles in the Prime Minister's Office, Ministry of Trade and Industry, and the Ministry of Manpower. Prior to joining the public sector, Wai Yee worked in shipping with a focus on emerging markets of South Asia, Africa, Central and South America trade.
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- Solutions Engineer at Confluent
Warren Vella is obsessed with integration, which started off as a 13-year adventure at the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), where he supported and architected critical energy market integration platforms. After moving from operations into enterprise architecture, he joined Confluent as a Solutions Engineer, helping customers solve their integration challenges.
Warren has worked on various platforms like API Gateways, ETLs, ESBs, Message Queues, iPaaS and Data Streaming Platforms. His mission? To educate the world on removing the bottleneck of integration.
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- Group Product Manager - Platforms at VistaPrint / 99designs
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- Software Developer at McDepth
William currently lives in Auckland, New Zealand where he studies at Massey University and works as a sole-trader doing web developer for small business including Wear New Zealand and Hot Yoga Works.
He enjoys PC gaming, travel, engaging with others at conferences/meetups/hackathons and Typescript.
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- Solutions Engineer at Wise
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- Lead Product Manager at Government Technology Agency of Singapore ( GovTech )
- Product Manager at Government Technology Agency of Singapore ( GovTech ) Cheng Yong Teo, Senior Software Engineer at Government Technology Agency of Singapore ( GovTech )
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- Director of Kapronasia
- Founder of Kapronasia Umang Moondra, CEO
Zennon Kapron is the Director of Kapronasia, one of Asia's leading financial technology research and consulting firms. Prior to Kapronasia, Zennon was the Asia Pacific Financial Industry Manager and Global Banking Industry Manager for Intel.
Zennon Kapron, Founder of Kapronasia Umang Moondra, CEO at Synfindo Pat Patel, Executive Director at Elevandi Indra Salim, Director of Sales and Partnerships at Standard Chartered Nexus
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- Senior Solutions Architect at DocuSign
Zing Zai is a Senior Solutions Architect at DocuSign based in Singapore, consulting clients on agreement digitalisation efforts across APJ. He is extremely obsessed in helping to refine how the world comes together to agree easier, smarter and in a more trusted manner.