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Tsippi Dach is the director of marketing communications at AlgoSec.
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Logan Daigle is a DevOps Coach with VersionOne from Charlotte, NC. He has been involved with providing and implementing DevOps solutions since 2011. He has development and DevOps experience in the military, government, healthcare, retail and finance industries. Logan has a passion for being Agile, doing DevOps well and using agile engineering practices to build, test and deploy software. His experiences have been in support of both Windows and Linux infrastructure, and many tools that are key to the success of applications in both.
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With more than 25 years of experience driving digital innovation and growth at technology companies, Kevin Dallas is responsible for all aspects of the Wind River business globally.
He joined Wind River from Microsoft, where he most recently served as the corporate vice president for cloud and AI business development. At Microsoft, he led a team creating partnerships that enable the digital transformation of customers and partners across a range of industries including: connected/autonomous vehicles, industrial IoT, discrete manufacturing, retail, financial services, media and entertainment and healthcare.
Prior to joining Microsoft in 1996, he held roles at NVIDIA Corporation and National Semiconductor (now Texas Instruments Inc.) in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East in roles that included microprocessor design, systems engineering, product management and end-to-end business leadership. He currently serves as a director on the board of Align Technology, Inc. He holds a B.Sc. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England.
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Jorge Damian is the Manager of Application Security at NowSecure. He enjoys breaking things in them and explaining how he did it to customers. Jorge used to be a penetration tester prior to transitioning into his current role, so he is very familiar with different pen testing procedures.
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Pieter Danhieux is a globally recognized security expert, with over 12 years of experience as a security consultant and 8 years as a principal instructor for SANS, teaching offensive techniques on how to target and assess organizations, systems and individuals for security weaknesses. He is the co-founder and CEO of Secure Code Warrior.
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Clément Danjou, Principal Software Engineer – Zama
After years as technical leader in companies such as Gandi or Alkemics, Clément Danjou started as an independent contractor in 2017. He worked as technical leader and JavaScript expert for startups (AB Tasty, TICTALES, Hiboo, SportEasy, ...) and large companies (LaPoste, Société Générale, ...), In 2020, he decided to join Zama and work in the blockchain field.
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Mehdi Daoudi is CEO and co-founder of Catchpoint Systems. Mehdi’s experience in IT leadership inspired him to build the digital experience platform he envisioned as a user. He spent more than 10 years at Google and DoubleClick, where he was responsible for quality of services, buying, building, deploying and using internal and external monitoring solutions to keep an eye on the DART infrastructure delivering billions of transactions a day. Mehdi holds a BS in international trade, marketing, and business from Institut Superior de Gestion (France).
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Rama Darbha is the Director of Solutions Architecture at NVIDIA, helping customers and partners extract the full value of their AI workloads through an open networking strategy. Rama has an active CCONP 2019::19 and CCIE #22804, with a Masters in Engineering and Management from Duke University.
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Séverine Darlot is Director of Engineering for Zephyr Enterprise at SmartBear. After getting her Ph.D. from Université de Franche-Comté, she participated in various testing tool projects, including Model Based Testing, Test DSL, Test Managers, and Test Code Generation. In 2015, to support the growth of continuous improvement, she co-founded Hiptest, acquired by SmartBear in 2018, and now known as CucumberStudio. At SmartBear, Séverine has led many dev teams in the spirit of trust, collaboration, and transparency while delivering business value.
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DJ Das is the Founder and CEO of ThirdEye Data, a data science, engineering and analytics firm. DJ has successfully delivered new products and services to over 20 Fortune 500 companies. A serial entrepreneur, DJ is also an angel investor in various data-centric startups in Silicon Valley.
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Tal Daskal is the CEO and Co-Founder at EasySend, a SaaS company with a no-code development platform for insurance companies and financial services based in Tel-Aviv, New York, and Germany. Tal is an expert on all things digital transformation in banking and insurance and is a passionate advocate for the paradigm shift towards no-code application development in the financial sector.
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Apurva is the Chief Marketing Officer at Sysdig. He’s been helping people analyze and accelerate infrastructure for the better part of two decades. He previously worked at Riverbed on both WAN acceleration and Network Analysis products, and at Inktomi on infrastructure products. He has a computer science degree from Brown University and an MBA from UC Berkeley.
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Dirghayu Dave is a senior DevOps engineer at Infostretch
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Shailesh Kumar Davey is vice president at ManageEngine and a co-founder of its parent company, Zoho Corp. He is currently involved in implementation of engineering processes across the organization. Before Zoho and ManageEngine, Davey worked at Tata-IBM on networking related projects.
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Nati Davidi is Senior Vice President of JFrog Security where he leads the development and go-to-market strategy for JFrog’s security products and research. Previously he served as CEO of Vdoo, which delivered an integrated security platform designed for connected, IoT, and embedded devices, and was acquired by JFrog in June 2021. Vdoo was Nati’s second entrepreneurial venture with Uri Alter – the two of them also co-founded Cyvera and served as Co-CEOs. Nati also led the company’s product management, sales and marketing global efforts. After Cyvera was acquired by Palo Alto Networks, he was appointed vice president of product management for endpoint technologies at the company. Before founding Cyvera, Nati was CEO of an authorized information security company called Altal Security. He has also acted as an independent consultant to several startup companies and was a Captain in the Israeli Defense Forces. Nati holds an LL.B and LL.M in Law and Technology from Haifa University.
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Bronwyn Davies is a DevOps practitioner and evangelist at Sandhata Technologies. She has almost 10 years' experience in the IT industry, working in financial services and more recently consulting across industries. She writes technical papers on a wide range of topics for Sandhata Technologies, and regularly blogs as well.
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Eric Davies is a junior developer with an interest in the application of DevOps practices at all levels of the development stack. He is a full stack developer with 5+ years of experience in the software development field and he’s currently working at an investment bank via the training and talent partner, mthree.
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Nahla Davies is a technical copywriter and former software specialist and lead programmer at several major technology companies whose clients include Collibra, UpGuard and Netflix.
Since 2015 Davies has worked with enterprise clients around the world developing RegTech protocols and best practices. She worked both enterprise side and with sovereign governments acting as a key contributor for notable public projects like DCOM. Since 2020 Davies has taken a less active role in compliance consulting and started sharing my insights as a technical copywriter. Visit https://nahlawrites.com to learn more.
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Andrew Davis is a Salesforce DevOps specialist and product manager at Copado. He's passionate about helping teams deliver innovation, build trust, and improve their performance. After studying engineering at Virginia Tech and Johns Hopkins he became a Buddhist monk, teaching and building meditation communities for almost 15 years. Since 2014, he's focused on the Salesforce platform as a developer, consultant and architect. He launched Appirio's DevOps practice, and focuses on promoting modern development practices for Salesforce. He lives in San Diego with his amazing wife and very cuddly dog.
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Bob brings to Plutora more than 30 years of engineering, marketing and sales management experience with high technology organisations from emerging start-ups to global 500 corporations. Before joining Plutora, Bob Davis is CMO at Plutora and former CMO at Atlantis Computing, a provider of Software Defined and Hyper Converged solutions for enterprise customers. He has propelled company growth at data storage and IT management companies including Kaseya (co-founder, acquired by Insight Venture Partners), Sentilla, CA, Netreon (acquired by CA), Novell and Intel.
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Jason Davis currently serves as Chief Product Officer at MacStadium - the industry-leading private Mac cloud provider enabling enterprise macOS workloads. With over two decades of experience in product roles across various stages of growth and post-IPO B2B companies, Davis specializes in devising growth-focused product strategies catering to both enterprise and SMB markets.
Formerly VP of Product Management at Sauce Labs, Davis spearheaded the strategy and execution of testing applications, implemented product-led growth tactics and optimized user acquisition, conversion and retention. In his current role at MacStadium, Davis will spearhead MacStadium's product strategy and development to drive innovation across the Apple enterprise.
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Tim Davis is the DevOps Advocate for env0. Prior to env0, Tim helped build the Cloud and Developer Advocacy team at VMware. His background is in Infrastructure Operations / Architecture, while always focusing on the business critical applications that run the business. While at VMware, his focus area was on DevOps Process / Procedure, and CI/CD Process / Tooling.
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Roman Davydov is a Technology Observer at Itransition. With over four years of experience in the IT industry, Roman follows and analyzes digital transformation trends to guide businesses in making informed software buying choices.
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Brian is currently a DevOps evangelist and practitioner at CloudBees, where he helps the community and customers in implementation of Agile, CI, CD and DevOps practices. Prior to CloudBees Brian spent 22-plus years as a software professional in multiple domains including QA, Engineering and Management. Most recently he led an Agile Transformation Consulting practice helping organizations small and large implement CI, CD and DevOps.
Prior to CloudBees, Brian worked at CollabNet, VA Software, Sony Computer Entertainment, Sega, Namco and Apple. His roots are as a C/C++ developer, but his primary job has always been gathering and distributing knowledge and using shared solutions to solve unique problems.
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A 20-year tech industry veteran, Margaret is vice president of portfolio product marketing at Red Hat, the world’s leading open source software company. She is a proven entrepreneur and intrapreneur, having led successful initiatives and teams at several startups and Fortune 500 companies, including Amazon, Microsoft and HPE. Margaret is a frequent author and speaker on digital disruption, emerging technologies, open source and women leadership. She has worked and traveled extensively in Asia, Europe and North America. Margaret serves as an advisor to Cloud Connect, the Cloud Network of Women and Women of the Channel, as well as to multiple early-stage companies and CEOs. She is an active mentor for many women and men in tech, and she recently received a Gold Stevie Award for Mentor and Coach of the Year.
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Alessandro De Capitani heads Newgen’s US Enterprise Operations. He is responsible for all commercial operations in this segment/geography.
He has 25 years of experience in technology and advisory services and account management experience. Previously he has worked with organizations such as Gartner, Appian, Unqork, and RiskMetrics.
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Max de Lavenne is CEO of the custom software development company Buildable. He also teaches rising development leaders at Linfield university. Reach him via email at buildableworks.com.
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Brecht De Rooms is senior developer advocate at Fauna. He is a programmer who has worked extensively in IT as a full-stack developer and researcher in both the startup and IT consultancy worlds. It is his mission to shed light on emerging and powerful technologies that make it easier for developers to build apps and services that will captivate users.
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Stephen De Vries is IriusRisk's co-founder and CEO. He started his career as a C, C++ and Java developer, before moving into software security. He’s an active contributor to a number of OWASP projects and has helped FTSE 100 companies to build security into their development processes through threat modeling and integrated security testing.
He regularly presents original security research at conferences including OWASP AppSec, Blackhat and Velocity.
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After a quarter of century at Bell Labs as the company revolutionized the telecommunications market and as a catalyst in helping Nationwide Insurance digitally transform its software delivery through Agile, DevOps and Lean practices, there are few areas of business technology that Carmen DeArdo has not galvanized and left his unmistakable mark. Part technical guru, part storyteller, Carmen is an award-winning public speaker and published author. His latest works include a number of IT Revolution Forum papers and the 2019 book Standing on Shoulders: A Leader’s Guide to Digital Transformation. Drawing upon his vast and varied experience - including three patents in software engineering - Carmen is Senior VSM Strategist at Tasktop, helping software organizations to accelerate the flow of business value through the implementation of integrated delivery pipeline and the pioneering Flow Framework™.
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Charles Dearing is a veteran tech and marketing journalist with over 15 years of experience using words to move people to act. He has written for various publications such as ProBlogger, Big Think, Apps World, to name a few.
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Ron DeCanio is a 19-year veteran of the IT industry, holding leadership roles in Enterprise IT organizations and start-ups. Most notably, Ron spent over a decade at FedEx as an IT Executive where he held numerous positions including Technical Advisor, Global Head of testing environments and configuration management, and Global Head of QA. Ron left FedEx to pursue opportunities at a startup where he lead the Professional Services transformation team to drive value-based implementations with documented, repeatable results. After being acquired by CA Technologies in 2011, Ron led the North American Professional Services team for DevOps strategies. He has consulted globally on Enterprise deployment of people, process and technologies in the DevOps space for Fortune 100 companies. He is a published thought leader and trusted advisor for DevOps strategies for large organizations. Ron holds a Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems with minors in both Math and Computer Science.
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Sergej looks back on ten years of impressive know-how in software development, software testing, and IT security. Before he started Code Intelligence with his co-founders in 2017, he worked as an external IT consultant in the automotive industry and as a project manager at Fraunhofer FKIE.
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Rajesh is a cybersecurity services leader with over 20 years of experience working in IT and security services. Serving as Director of Cloud Security Services at Hitachi Vantara, Rajesh is passionate about helping businesses get cloud security right from the start.
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Loris Degioanni is the CTO and founder of Sysdig, the cloud-native intelligence platform. He is also the creator of the popular open source troubleshooting tool, sysdig, and the open source container security tool Sysdig Falco. Prior to founding Sysdig, Loris co-created Wireshark, the open source network analyzer, which today has 20+ million users. Loris holds a PhD in computer engineering from Politecnico di Torino and lives in Davis, California.
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George Deglin is Co-Founder & CEO of OneSignal, a multi-channel customer engagement platform. With over a decade of experience engineering software products and mobile games, George was previously CTO for Uversity, a college social networking startup backed by Founders Fund and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Dominica DeGrandis is Director of Digital Transformation at Tasktop. She is passionate about continuous improvement, DevOps, Kanban and culture change and works with IT services and operations teams to improve workflow across siloed teams in order to support the bigger picture of delivering services and products to customers.
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Jordy Dekker is Chief Evangelist at ValueBlue. Jordy has 20+ years of experience in the field of Enterprise Architecture and was the Lead EA at various organizations. He has a thorough understanding of market developments, has led organizational transformations to a modern way of working with EA, and is experienced in building Management-driven solutions that accelerate growth. Jordy’s insights have been instrumental in creating the BlueDolphin platform, and continue to steer its development today.
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After graduating from California Polytechnic University in Computer Engineering, Michael Del Castillo relocated to Washington D.C. to work with the federal government. There he spent the next 15 years working across both the public and private sectors in various IT roles as a trusted advisor to IT executives. Today, Michael is a Solutions Consultant at OpsRamp.
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Conor Delanbanque has been building & scaling teams in the DevOps space for some time now. As well as supporting the growth of some of the most innovative DevOps & SRE organizations in the US and Europe, Conor also founded the Future of DevOps Thought Leaders Debate. He Co-Organizes DevOpsNYC and sponsors DockerNYC Meetup on a regular basis. He was a keynote speaker at DevOpsDays Cuba, 2017 and has contributed to a number of online publications and podcasts. You can tweet him at @ConorDevOps, find him on LinkedIn or at various tech events across the Americas.
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Steve Demchuk is Chief Product Officer at Avoka, where he is responsible for driving product direction in support of Avoka's continued growth. Steve has more than 17 years of application development, sales and product management experience working with enterprise software systems.
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Vincent Demeester is principal software engineer at Red Hat. Vincent is a French developer, Gopher, sysadmin, factotum, free-software fan, unicode lover, Tektoncd and Docker/Moby maintainer and Knative contributor.
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Zach is a writer and researcher for JumpCloud with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. He loves being on the cutting edge of new technology, and when he's not working, he enjoys all things outdoors, making music, and soccer.
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Based in Europe, Marcel den Hartog is a frequent speaker at industry events including GSE, IDUG and other conferences where he discusses CA’s mainframe strategy, vision and other IT trends. In his current role, he is responsible for CA Technologies EMEA Marketing for a variety of (mainframe) solutions, and serves as a member of the CA Council of Technical Excellence, a group of the company’s leading technical advocates.
Prior to joining CA Technologies as a Pre-sales consultant for both mainframe and distributed products in 1986, Marcel worked as a programmer/systems analyst on VSE and MVS systems, starting with CICS DL1/IMS and later with DB2. He never lost touch with the technical aspects of IT and still has hands-on experience with many CA products. He was responsible for managing CA’s pre-sales teams in The Netherlands, Belgium and South Africa for a number of years where he worked on IT projects with some of the largest companies in the Benelux, Europe and Africa.
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James Denyer is the senior director of Docs and Developer Education for Pulumi. Prior to joining Pulumi in 2023, he was the senior director of Product, Design and Growth for Microsoft Learn – Developer Relations and the senior director of Azure Platform Evangelism and Experiences for Microsoft. He also held earlier roles in technology in a strategic capacity at Sappington, Starbucks and REI
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Chris is the co-founder and VP of technology at DivvyCloud by Rapid7 where he leads the engineering teams while driving new innovation. He is dedicated to building the most robust, scalable, high-quality software possible to meet our customers’ demanding requirements. Chris is a technical pioneer whose passion is finding innovative and elegant new ways to deliver security, compliance and governance to customers running at scale in hybrid cloud environments. He remains deeply technical, writing code and diving into the latest technologies and services being deployed by partners like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, VMware, and OpenStack.
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Sachin has decades of rich software engineering experience, working across different industry verticals and on a variety of technology stacks. His entrepreneurial journey started 27 years ago when he graduated in computer sciences from the University of Pune. Instead of opting for a 'job', he decided to build a bespoke payroll processing software that helped several SMEs in automating their payroll operations.
In 1997, he moved to the UK, and with software engineering in mind took up several strategy and architecture roles in large enterprise organisations to shape, architect, and design scalable digital propositions. A notable assignment was at Lloyds Bank, where he led the design and architecture for their account opening and onboarding programme.
2015 was a turning point in his career, where he moved into the start-up world and led the creation of a global digital technology team of over 100 high performing, multi-disciplinary engineers. Sachin continued his start-up journey with the creation of Tech Amigos – a cloud services company with a mission to enable innovation, deliver on the promise of Agile/DevOps, and automate all aspects of software engineering. From the creation of modern, scalable technology stacks in the cloud, to automating software build and deployment processes.
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Theo Despoudis is a senior software engineer and an experienced mentor. He has a keen interest in open source architectures, cloud computing, best practices and functional programming. He occasionally blogs on several publishing platforms and enjoys creating projects from inspiration.
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Wendy Dessler is a super-connector who helps businesses find their audience online through outreach, partnerships, and networking. She frequently writes about the latest advancements in digital marketing and focuses her efforts on developing customized blogger outreach plans depending on the industry and competition.
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Neeraj Deuskar is the Director and Global Head of Marketing for the Relevance Lab (www.relevancelab.com). Relevance Lab is a DevOps and Automation specialist company- making cloud adoption easy for global enterprises. In his current role, Neeraj is formulating and implementing the global marketing strategy with the key responsibilities of making the brand and the pipeline impact. Prior to his current role, Neeraj managed the global marketing teams for various IT product and services organizations and handled various responsibilities including strategy formulation, product and solutions marketing, demand generation, digital marketing, influencers’ marketing, thought leadership and branding. Neeraj is B.E. in Production Engineering and MBA in Marketing, both from the University of Mumbai, India.
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Brian DeWyer is CTO and Co-Founder of Reveille Software. With more than 25 years of experience in technology, Brian DeWyer provides product strategy and technical leadership in his role as Reveille CTO and board member. Brian leverages his extensive knowledge from his tenure as a senior IT leader at Wachovia and previous role as a process consulting practice leader for IBM Global Services delivering on-premises and cloud-based solution implementations for Fortune 1000 commercial and government clients. He has led process change efforts within large organizations, building on content-driven solutions for high-volume transaction processing applications. He is a past board member of the Association of Image and Information Management (AIIM) industry association. Brian graduated from Virginia Tech with a BSME and holds an MBA from Wake Forest University.
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Mithun Dhar is a senior executive with more than 20 years of experience in the technology industry and developer relations. His diverse background includes overseeing the growth of developer platforms, managing partner ecosystems and building support for new technology.
At HERE, Mithun is responsible for increasing the developer community’s ability to harness the power of location intelligence and engagement with the HERE Open Location Platform (OLP). His focus is on the strategy and vision for the OLP and working closely with key partners, such as AWS, Microsoft, SAP and Bosch, to ensure that developers around the world can leverage location intelligence solutions in their products and services.
Before joining HERE, Mithun was director of developer relations and strategic communications for SAP Concur, where he led a team that helped developers design, build and market applications that tap into the $1.2 trillion business travel industry.
Prior to that, he was principal strategist for technology and communications at Citrix, director of product marketing at Edifecs, and held numerous positions at Microsoft within Microsoft Research, product management, product marketing and developer evangelism.
Mithun speaks five languages and is known for his enthusiasm around developer communities and his ability to merge his technical background and business savvy. He has computer science and engineering degrees from Bangalore University and the National Institute of Information Technology in India.
Olivia Diaz
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Olivia Diaz works at eTatvaSoft.com, an enterprise-level mobile and web application development company. Being a tech geek, she keeps a close watch over the industry focusing on the latest technology news and gadgets.
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Ariel DiFelice is API Advocate at SmartBear. She is a B2B marketing leader focused on brand awareness and growth, product launches and adoption, strategic messaging and positioning, and M&A brand integration. She has served in marketing leadership roles at ENGIE North America Inc. and Verisk.
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Bas helps teams and organizations improve their testing efforts through smart application of tools. He is a testing and automation consultant and a trainer, specializing in creating and implementing automation strategies that support testing, starting with helping to answer the 'why?' of automation all the way to writing effective automation solutions. Bas delivers training on various subjects related to automation and is also a regular speaker at conferences in the Netherlands as well as abroad.
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Mike Dimitroff is the CTO of RigD, where he leads the team in the application of Natural Language and Machine Learning. Previously at Cisco, Mike Pioneered use of machine learning in Webex ops to enhance performance, reduce waste that lead to substantial improvements in revenue and profit.
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A technologist who started out working on aircraft and missile guidance systems, Don Dingee founded STRATISET in October 2018 to share his B2B marketing experience.
Early in his career Don headed a product marketing team and implemented one of the first e-business strategies at Motorola. For a decade he covered embedded and edge computing, EDA, and IoT technology at Embedded Computing Design and SemiWiki.com. He’s co-author of “Mobile Unleashed”, a history of Arm chips in mobile devices.
For fun, Don debates sabermetrics and wrestles his Great Pyrenees dog.
Corey Dirrig
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Richard Diver has over 20 years of international experience in technology with a deep technical background in cloud and email security, mobility, identity and access management, as well as information security. As a cloud security architect for Insight Enterprises, Richard consults with IT leaders regarding modernizing security best practices to mitigate risk.
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Jonathan DiVincenzo, head of product at Signal Sciences, the fastest growing web application security company in the world, brings his engineering background together with a passion for taking mere ideas and turning them into products. He has experience working in both large fortune companies and startup environments, where his impact in leadership, engineering and product development leaves its mark.
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Bill Doerrfeld is a tech journalist and analyst. His beat is cloud technologies, specifically the web API economy. He began researching APIs as an Associate Editor at ProgrammableWeb, and since 2015 has been the Editor at Nordic APIs, a high impact blog on API strategy for providers. He loves discovering new trends, researching new technology, and writing on topics like DevOps, REST design, GraphQL, SaaS marketing, IoT, AI, and more. He also gets out into the world to speak occasionally.
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Colin Domoney is an API security research specialist and developer advocate with 42Crunch. He oversees the development of the 42Crunch community and curates the apisecurity.io industry newsletter. Colin is an experienced AppSec professional having worked with Cyberproof, Veracode, CA and oversaw Deutsche Bank's global AppSec program.
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Doug Dooley is the chief operating officer of Data Theorem. He heads up product strategy, marketing, sales and customer success teams. Before joining Data Theorem, Dooley worked in venture capital leading investments of cloud-centric security, machine-learning and infrastructure startups for Venrock. While at Venrock, Dooley served on the boards of Evident.io (Palo Alto Networks), Niara (HPE) and VeloCloud (VMware). Dooley earned a B.S. in computer engineering from Virginia Tech.
David Dooling
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David Dooling is an engineer at Atomist, the software delivery automation company. David has been a DevOps practitioner since the task of managing the computing resources of his research group fell to him in grad school, long before the term DevOps was coined. Most of his career has been in large-scale and high-performance computing for scientific applications like the Human Genome Project and DNA sequencing in areas such as human health and agriculture. He now uses the learnings from managing large software and computing deployments to create tools that help developers get from idea to deployed in the cloud as quickly and easily as possible.
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Alistair Doran, is the Principal Consultant - Digital Transformation & DevOps, at Exponential-e
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Mike Douglas is director of software engineering at Green House Data, specializing in architecting secure cloud native and hybrid modern applications, working with organizations to improve application security and compliance controls, speed delivery and quality through DevOps. Douglas is a Microsoft MVP in developer technologies with a focus in Azure DevOps and a leader in the Omaha DevOps meetup and Global DevOps Bootcamp. He speaks regularly at regional and national events, such as HDC, Infotec, VS Live and Nebraska.Code(), on a range of topics including DevOps, Microsoft Azure and digital transformation.
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As Chief Growth Officer at Creatio, Andie Dovgan is responsible for the company's global marketing organization, business development, sales enablement, and sales engineering teams with the full focus on growing the brand and lead generation, as well as providing strong support for all expansion initiatives across the globe. Creatio is a global vendor of one platform to automate workflows and CRM with no-code and a maximum degree of freedom. Millions of workflows are launched on Creatio’s platform daily in 100 countries by thousands of clients. Creatio is recognized by top analyst firms, including Gartner and Forrester.
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Russell Dowdell is senior manager of product management at Imprivata.
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Richard earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with an option in Management Information Systems in 1999. He accepted a position at Intel Corporation in 1998 where he began change management support for ERP systems. Today, he works in the area of SAP Enterprise Automation and SAP Tool Support.
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Brad Downey is the strategic account leader at GitLab.
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Zeev serves as VP of Corporate Strategy and is responsible for market strategy of Niagara Networks solutions. Most recently, he served as VP of Global Business Development for ADVA (ETR: ADV) packet portfolio as part of CTO department since 2017. Prior to this role, Zeev served as VP Strategic Marketing for MRV Communications (NASDAQ: MRVC - acquired by ADVA), responsible for marketing strategy and technology innovation research with focus on multi-layer convergence and transformation to virtualized and programmable networks. Zeev brings over 20 years of experience in senior roles in the high-tech industry, with a unique mix of technology, sales and B2B digital marketing knowledge along entrepreneur spirit. He is a long-time contributor to industry forums and broadly active in making technology outlook presentations at industry events. His latest role as part of MEF forum contribution was co-chair of Marketing and Education committee.
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Alex Drag is the Head of Product Marketing at Kobiton. In this role, Drag works to shape Kobiton's messaging around product launches, content, social media, evangelism and field enablement.
Dmitry Dragilev
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Dmitry is the founder of TopicRanker.com - an SEO tool which finds keywords your website can easily rank for on Google due to specific problems and weaknesses in search results. Over the last 10 years, Dmitry has helped 300+ brands rank #1 on Google through PR and SEO. Dmitry used PR & SEO to grow a startup from 0 to 40 million views per month, and got acquired by Google in 2014. After the acquisition by Google he translated his know-how into JustReachOut.io, an SEO tool to get covered in press and build authority backlinks without PR firms; it has been used by 5000+ content marketers to date and was acquired in 2021.
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Allen Drennan, CEO, Lumicademy ()
Allen Drennan, CEO, started Lumicademy in October of 2017, bringing together the team of senior engineers who created Nefsis, a cloud-based, video conferencing online service, which Frost and Sullivan cited as the first “conferencing service solution based on the technologies of cloud-computing, end-to-end parallel processing and multipoint video conferencing,” to create the next generation of virtual classroom technology.
Engaging students and educators alike, Lumicademy provides the ability to interact in a live video meeting and view presentations with screen shares, document shares, annotations and whiteboards, all within a tablet or phone experience .Lumicademy offers a high quality video and audio user experience for most mobile devices with our GPU-centric mobile edition. Educators and learners can live chat with peers in up to 62 languages. Users enjoy the learning capabilities traditional ‘video apps’ cannot offer, with an unlimited amount of users joining in the mobile classroom experience.
At Lumicademy, we believe there’s a better way to connect people online. Our goal is to unify the virtual classroom experience, providing a modular and customizable solution to education industries and corporate organizations. We’re excited to bring the authenticity of face-to-face relationships in a virtually-driven world.
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Abby Drexler is a contributing writer and media specialist on behalf of OneLogin. She graduated from the University of Tennessee with a degree in Public Relations.
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Chuck Dubuque is CMO of Bugsnag. Formerly, he was VP of product marketing at Tintri, which went public in June 2017, and director of product marketing at Red Hat for the virtualization and OpenStack business unit. He also spent several years in biotechnology in marketing and business development. He is a graduate of Stanford Graduate School of Business and Dartmouth College.
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Mike Duensing is the CTO and EVP of engineering at Skuid, a no-code cloud application platform. He has been building and leading engineering teams for more than 30 years.
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Rob Duffy is an experienced tech leader with a demonstrated history of building high-performance engineering teams in both high-tech organizations and transformational situations, including Amazon and TIME, Inc. As co-founder and CEO of sodo, he partners with organizations from startups to decade-old corporations to provide the tools and training DevOps teams need to successfully navigate the modernization of software delivery.
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With diverse experience across industries, William has had an extensive career in product strategy, engineering, investments, and operations management. William is CEO of HappyPath, an AI powered software testing automation platform. He served as Chief Product Officer at Clear Street--a $2 billion startup disrupting the prime brokerage space--where he ran product strategy at the enterprise level. Prior to that, he was Global Head of Operations at Tagomi which was sold to Coinbase in 2020. Starting his finance career as a Java Developer, William built order and portfolio management systems. Leveraging his technical expertise, he helped modernize and automate the operations space in his role as Director of Operations at Courant Capital and his roles at KCG and Tower Research Capital.
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Eugene Duma, DevOps consultant and Agile pro at Squadex, has more than 10 years of experience of working in IT companies. He has developed consumer & enterprise applications and built a few infrastructure and process improvement projects for both SMEs and larger enterprises. Eugene's vast experience allows him to instantly assess business needs and come up with cost-efficient solutions. His area of expertise includes software development lifecycle, version control, CI/CD, Atlassian JIRA, Service Desk, Confluence, Bitbucket, Slack, Flowdock, virtualization, and cloud platform automation. Eugene is an avid contributor to the Squadex blog, too.
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Alan Dunkin is Developer Community Manager at Actian Corp.
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Cynthia Dunlop, Lead Content Strategist/Writer at Tricentis, writes about software testing and the SDLC—specializing in continuous testing, functional/API testing, DevOps, Agile, and service virtualization. She has written articles for publications including SD Times, Stickyminds, InfoQ, ComputerWorld, IEEE Computer, and Dr. Dobb's Journal. She also co-authored and ghostwritten several books on software development and testing for Wiley and Wiley-IEEE Press. Dunlop holds a BA from UCLA and an MA from Washington State University.
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Julian Dunn is senior manager of product marketing at PagerDuty.
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Tobias Dunn-Krahn is CTO at xMatters. Tobias has more than 20 years of technology leadership experience, including 15 with xMatters.
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Romain Dupas is Code Climate’s Director of Software Engineering, where he leads a team of passionate engineers committed to helping other engineering teams excel with data-driven insights. Prior to joining CodeClimate, Romain served as Head of Engineering at NASDAQ Private Market for 6 years. Romain was born and raised in France where he earned a master’s degree in software engineering. In his free time, he enjoys baking bread and reading board game rule books.
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Horacio Duran is currently an Infrastructure Software Engineer at ShiftLeft. For the past several years, he has been focused on software development in the Cloud and driving efficiencies via Dev-Ops. More recently, his specific passions lie in automated deployment and distributed systems, with the goal of building clouds deployments that self-sustain, heal and upgrade. Prior to ShiftLeft, Horacio was a Software Engineer at Canonical, and before that, he led a cutting edge IT services consulting business. Horacio is based in Argentina, where studied Software Development and Database Design at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional.
Martin Durant
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Dr. Durant studied physics at Oxford and astrophysics at Toronto, where he researched pulsars and other compact-object systems in multiple wavelengths and a broad range of time scales. His background includes advanced Python programming topics such as numerical computing, data visualization, and machine learning, and he has done consultant work for organizations specializing in climate science projects like Pangeo. Dr. Durant is a core contributor to Dask, Zarr and other high-profile Python data processing software. He is currently a Staff Software Engineer at Anaconda.
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Sandeep Dutta is chief practice officer at Fractal Analytics.
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Tyler Duzan is a product manager at Percona, a company that delivers enterprise-class MySQL, MariaDB and MongoDB, PostgreSQL and other open source database solutions and services. Prior to joining Percona, Tyler spent almost 13 years as an operations and security engineer in a variety of different industries. Deciding to take his analytical mindset and strategic focus into new territory, Tyler is applying his knowledge to solving business problems for Percona customers with inventive solutions combining technology and services. At Percona, Tyler leads the company’s Cloud and Container initiatives including the recently launched Percona Kubernetes Operators.
Josh Dvir
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Josh is a director in ProdOps.io and founder of WorkflowHQ. Josh, With 15 years of experience, Josh is a skilled problem solver who can navigate any technological challenge to its successful simplified solution. His extensive background in resolving technical problems has led him to become the company’s mentor, leading the next generation of architects and teaching them to “understand the philosophy of the why upon the technicality of the how.”
Josh enjoys the fact that his work allows him to experience new cultures worldwide. His latest goal is to study Spanish.
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Himanshu Dwivedi is the CEO of Data Theorem. Prior to his current position, he was a founding partner of iSEC Partners, a digital security services and products organization. Before forming iSEC Partners, Himanshu was the Technical Director for @stakes San Francisco security practice, a leader in application and network security. His professional experience includes application programming, infrastructure security, and secure product design with an emphasis on storage risk assessment. Himanshu is considered to be an industry expert in storage security. He has been published in major journals, magazines, and news articles regarding his storage security research. Himanshu has been invited to speak at several security and storage conferences in the United States and in Asia, such as BlackHat and Storage Networking World.
