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Srushti Vachhrajani
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Srushti Shah is an ambitious, experienced digital marketing professional. Besides her work, she loves traveling, exploring new things and spending quality time with family.
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I help technology and business teams transform into simpler, smarter and safer delivery units by adopting principles,practices and methods from Agile, DevOps, Kanban, modern engineering practices, lean and newer operating models.
I have extensive experience of Agile, DevOps, Waterfall and Hybrid delivery approaches. My roles covered Enterprise DevOps transformation, Agile coaching and QA Service transformation focused on Engineering and DevOps practices. My career since 2000 has spanned the spectrum of software delivery life cycle from development to deployment across geographies in Asia, Africa, UK and Europe.
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Alex Vakulov is a cybersecurity researcher with over 20 years of experience in malware analysis. Alex has strong malware removal skills. He is writing for numerous tech-related publications sharing his security experience. Alex is assisting organizations in making informed decisions to secure their data and assets effectively.
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Altaz Valani is the Director of Insights Research at Security Compass where he specializes in software security, threat modeling, and DevSecOps.
Altaz is currently Vice Chair of The Open Group Security Forum, a Board member at OASIS, and on the SAFECode Technical Leadership Council. He participates in various industry and standards communities like IEEE, Cloud Security Alliance, and Object Management Group.
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Alfonso Valdes is the CTO and Founder of ClickIT Smart Technologies, an AWS DevOps consulting agency aimed to help enterprises run their Digital Transformation, and Cloud Adoption. He combines more than 10 years of IT experience in the field of scalable architectures, distributed systems and developing cloud-native applications, and has worked for different U.S companies, including Sprint Nextel, Texas Instruments, and Nike USA. Nowadays, he is encouraging enterprises to join the Cloud, and sharing speeches on different Startups and IT forums.
Alfonso Valdes Carrales
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Alfonso helps companies increase profitability and software development productivity through a fully accountable software engineering team and a unique nearshore framework.
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As Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Bonitasoft, Miguel leads the company’s mission: to bring powerful, affordable, open digital business automation to organizations and projects of all sizes. Bonitasoft builds a BPM-process-based application platform to create customized automated business applications without the cost and rigidity of long, unpredictable custom development cycles. As the world’s fastest-growing digital business platform provider, Bonitasoft has thousands of customers and an open source community of more than 130,000 members. Prior to Bonitasoft, Miguel led R&D, pre-sales and support for the BPM division of Bull Information Systems, a major European systems provider. Miguel is a recognized thought-leader in business process management and passionate about open source community building.
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Performance dogsbody, with an obsession towards building relationships with customers and providing them value.
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Andrew van der Stock is a senior principal consultant at Synopsys, providing technical leadership in security architecture, threat modeling, security architecture reviews, secure coding guidelines and reviews, assurance and penetration tests, risk assessments, and developer training. He has worked in the IT industry for over 20 years and is a seasoned web application security specialist and enterprise security architect. Andrew currently leads the OWASP Top 10 2017 and Application Security Verification Standard projects.
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Nancy Van Elsacker Louisnord is the president TOPdesk USA. She’s also a public speaker, a contributor to dozens of leading industry publications and a service management expert.
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Joey van Ommen is head of product at MessageBird. In his role, Joey oversees the development of MessageBird’s fast growing platform of cloud communications services including APIs and solutions for SMS, Voice, WhatsApp, Email, Messenger, RCS and a number of other channels. Joey resides in Amsterdam.
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Cameron van Orman is executive vice president, chief strategy and marketing officer, responsible for the development and calibration of Planview’s corporate strategy and driving alignment from strategy to delivery to outcome realization. Cameron is also responsible for all aspects of Planview’s global marketing, digital demand generation, and customer marketing. Cameron has more than 20 years of enterprise leadership experience driving transformational change, business agility, and market growth.
Prior to joining Planview in 2019, Cameron held senior marketing positions at CA Technologies (now Broadcom), where he was instrumental in the integration of Rally into the CA portfolio, and he championed the internal Agile transformation of the CA marketing organization. Cameron also has served in strategy, marketing, sales, and operations roles at BlueArc, Pillar Data Systems, Sun Microsystems, and StorageTek. He has a bachelor’s degree in economics and math from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Cameron is vice chairman of the board of the Children’s Diabetes Foundation.
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Nick Van Weerdenburg https://www.linkedin.com/in/nvanweerdenburg/ is the founder and CEO of Rangle.io, a product transformation consultancy that has evolved from providing modern JavaScript solutions, to helping businesses from scale-ups to Fortune 500s solve their most complex digital challenges. Prior to founding Rangle, he worked in consulting, architecting and delivering global product development and supply chain solutions, as well as optimizing their multi-channel global marketing operations.
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Nick is the Vice President of Engineering at PlanetScale, where he is building the next-generation cloud database. Previously, he was a Director of Software Engineering at GitHub and Microsoft, leading multiple Seattle-based engineering teams. Nick holds a Bachelor’s degree in Informatics from the University of Washington and resides in Seattle, Washington.
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Bhavani Vangala has worked with high-growth companies for more than 20 years, learning what it takes to build high-performing teams along the way. As Vice President of Engineering at Onymos, she oversees the engineering functions for its technology strategy, product architecture and development, sales engineering, and customer support needs. Prior to joining Onymos, Bhavani was CTO at 1DecisionSuite, a SaaS enterprise platform for order-to-cash analytics. She started her career as a software engineer before assuming engineering leadership roles at Flextronics, PDL BioPharma, and Synopsys.
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Herb VanHook has held many roles during his 15 years at BMC Software. He currently works in the office of the CTO and in this role, he helps develop BMC’s overall technology strategy and serves as a technology evangelist for BMC’s portfolio and future.
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Slava Vaniukov, co-founder and CEO at Softermii, has over 9-years of experience in the web and mobile development industry as a software architect. After getting extensive experience as a senior tech lead and mentor with the focus on MVP development and UX/UI design, Slava joined forces with like-minded professionals to start his own company. Besides that, he is one of the authors at the Softermii blog and tech blogger featured at a wide range of other web resources.
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Rahul Varshneya is the co-founder and president of Arkenea, a custom healthcare software development company. Rahul has been featured as a technology thought leader across Bloomberg TV, Forbes, HuffPost, Inc, among others.
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Manasi Vartak is the founder and CEO of Verta, a Palo Alto-based startup building tools for AI & ML model management and operations. Manasi is the creator of ModelDB, the first open-source model management system deployed at Fortune-500 companies. She previously worked on deep learning for content recommendation as part of the feed-ranking team at Twitter and dynamic ad-targeting at Google. Manasi is passionate about building intuitive data tools, helping companies become AI-first, and figuring out how data scientists and the organizations they support can be more effective.
Manasi has spoken at several top research and industry conferences such as SIGMOD, VLDB, SparkSummit, TWIML, Data Science Salon, and AnacondaCon, and has authored a course on model management. Manasi earned her MS/PhD in Computer Science from MIT.
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Leo leads the product marketing efforts with a passion for data analysis as applied to monitoring and performance data. With more than ten years of experience leading production operations, web performance and security programs for Ask.com and Ask Jeeves, Leo helps communicate the value of availability, performance and reliability of websites, webapps and other internet services. He started his career in IT infrastructure and Operations in top secret intelligence training facilities in The United States Air Force.
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Yuliya Vasilko is Head of Business Development at Lightpoint Global, a custom software development company with 12+ years of experience specializing in Web Development, Data Engineering, QA, Cloud, UI/UX, IoT and more.
Yulia helps customers to define project stipulations, collect business requirements, choose primary technologies and estimate project time frame and required resources.
Yulia has vast experience working with customers in software development for Fintech, Publishing, Healthcare, Martech, Retail & eCommerce and other businesses located in the U.S., Canada, Western Europe, UK and Ireland.
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Alejandro Vásquez is VP of Business Development at PSL Corp in Colombia, a software outsourcing company. Vasquez is a self-described “avid techno geek” and enjoys motorcycle riding through the hills of Medellin.
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Gabriel Vasquez is a senior team leader and a Certified Scrum Master. He has worked for more than 14 years in the information technology sector. He currently leads Belatrix's DevOps Center of Excellence, which helps enterprises implement and improve their DevOps capabilities. He is a client and result oriented professional, with extensive experience leading large projects from day one to execution. He has a strong background in programming and is familiar with disruptive technologies that help teams be more productive and for customers to improve their software delivery performance.
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Emile Vauge is the founder and CTO of Traefik Labs, the creators of the first GitOps-driven API management solution and developers’ number-one API gateway five years and running. Traefik Labs’ products are used by the world’s largest online enterprises, including eBay, Cisco, Adeo, and NASA. Emile founded Traefik Labs after creating Traefik, his wildly successful open source cloud-native reverse proxy with more than 3.5 billion downloads and 45,000 starts on GitHub. Prior to starting his own company, Emile spent more than 10 years building applications for web scale and large enterprise organizations.
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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, aka sjvn, has been writing about technology and the business of technology since CP/M-80 was the cutting-edge PC operating system, 300bps was a fast Internet connection, and WordStar was the state-of-the-art word processor. And we liked it!
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As Chief Technology Officer of IFS in North America, Rick Veague has overall responsibility for the product and industry solutions offered to IFS customers and partners in the United States and Canada. As a well-respected panelist and speaker, Rick regularly speaks on IFS solutions and IT strategies at tradeshows and industry events throughout the country.
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Dale Vecchio is Chief Marketing Officer at LzLabs. Dale spent 18 years as Research Vice President at Gartner, where he specialized in strategies for modernizing application portfolios. Before becoming one of the world’s foremost analysts in the realm of application modernization, Dale began his career as a mainframe application developer, moving on to become a systems programmer and later, a director and vice president of marketing across a range of technology companies, including Cincom Systems, Systems Center and Viasoft.
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Raju Vegesna is chief evangelist at Zoho. In his 19 years with the company, Raju held various positions and is strategically involved in the evolution of the Zoho Suite. Prior to joining Zoho Corp, Raju co-founded an internet services company serving the educational market.
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Jeff Veis is SVP, Marketing at Actian. He is responsible for product, solution, partner, brand and digital marketing initiatives on a global basis. Jeff has over 20 years of enterprise software marketing experience at high-growth companies. He conceived and founded the Liberty Alliance Project creating a global standard for federated digital identity. Prior to Actian, he held senior level positions at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Software’s Big Data Analytics and Information Management Group, SAP BusinessObjects, BEA Systems, Sun Microsystems, ActiveGrid and Booz-Allen. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Northwestern University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
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Guillermo Velez is solutions manager at ClickIT Smart Technologies. He is a cloud enthusiast motivated by the constant improvement and development of platforms, services and open source technologies. He has experience leading teams either local or remote to implement top-notch technologies and solutions on different cloud environments and satisfying clients' business needs. Guillermo encourages businesses to take a cloud approach and optimize their internal processes and service delivery to their clients.
Gorkey Vemulapalli
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Gorkey Vemulapalli is Sr. Director, Precision Medicine Data & Systems at City of Hope. Reporting to the Chief Digital Officer, he heads precision medicine digital initiatives and technology platforms at City of Hope, and works with the executive leadership team to help define precision medicine strategy.
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Bala Venkatrao is currently part of the Founding Team and VP, Products at Unravel Data, a start-up that is re-defining Application Performance Management for Big Data Applications. Bala’s prior experience includes working in product management and strategy roles at Elastic and Cloudera. Bala was an early employee at Cloudera where he was involved in a wide array of activities including Product Management, Marketing, Partnership Development, and Customer Advocacy.
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As President, and Member of the Executive Council, Dinesh is the global head for Direct-Core Business and Digital across industry verticals. With over 20 years of cross-functional leadership experience spanning strategy, technology innovation, M&A and marketing, Dinesh has been instrumental in catalyzing Mphasis growth through focus in delivering business value and delighting customers. Under Dinesh's leadership, Mphasis has transformed its solution and services portfolio that have enabled Direct-core business to grow faster than the industry. Also, Mphasis is now consistently ranked as #1 or #2 service provider by our top 5 Industry leading customers.
Nimrod Vered
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As CTO of Uplevel, Nimrod Vered carries significant product development experience, people analytics insights, and a passion for modernizing engineering leadership. Prior to Uplevel, he was with Zipwhip as Chief Engineering Officer who accelerated the expansion of the engineering organization through its $850 million acquisition by Twilio. He has held roles at Microsoft, Cisco, and Check Point, across which Nimrod holds several patents for innovations developed. With a passion for people analytics, he was integral in Microsoft’s acquisition of VoloMetrix as VP of engineering and helped build the SaaS offering that eventually became Microsoft’s MyAnalytics and Workplace Analytics.
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Ishu Verma is Technical Evangelist at Red Hat focused on emerging technologies like edge computing, IoT and AI/ML. He and fellow open source hackers work on building solutions with next-gen open source technologies. Before joining Red Hat in 2015, Verma worked at Intel on IoT Gateways and building end-to-end IoT solutions with partners. He has been a speaker and panelist at IoT World Congress, DevConf, Embedded Linux Forum, Red Hat Summit and other on-site and virtual forums. He lives in the valley of sun, Arizona.
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Todd Vernon, CEO and founder of VictorOps, has 20 years of IT management experience. He was doing DevOps before it was called DevOps. He was CTO at Raindance Communications and helped to take the company public. After that, he was CEO of Lijit Networks, which was grown into one of the largest real-time ad exchange platforms on the internet.
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Edward Viaene is the managing director and co-founder of IN4IT, a cloud consulting firm, where he specializes in cloud computing and DevOps. Viaene has more than 15 years of experience in software engineering and analyst roles and has previously worked as the VP information risk manager for JPMorgan Chase. Viaene teaches 16 courses on Udemy on a variety of subjects, including DevOps, Kubernetes and Terraform on Azure. Viaene holds a master’s in economics and business from Hogeschool-Universiteit, Brussel and a bachelor’s in applied computer science from Katholieke Hogeschool Leuven.
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Ruston Vickers is Chief DevOps Architect and Senior Vice President of Product Management and Strategy of Application Delivery at CA Technologies. He is responsible of providing customers with counsel on their DevOps strategies to help them deliver higher quality software and services to market faster. With more than 20 years of experience in the software industry, Vickers has deep insight into how enterprises need to evolve their application development processes into DevOps strategies to address key business and innovation challenges. In 1999, Vickers founded ITKO bringing LISA to market in the distributed application space. The company was acquired by CA Technologies in 2011. Vickers earned his business degree from Texas Tech University. He is a frequent presenter and contributor at technology conferences and to publications as well as the technical editor and contributor to the best practices book, “Service Virtualization: Reality is Overrated.”
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Allen writes blogs, comprehensive MOFU/TOFU case studies and landing/pillar page content for Daffodil Software and its affiliate organization Unthinkable Solutions. Daffodil Software, established in 1999, formulates solutions across a range of focus areas such as Mobility, DevOps, Data Enrichment, AI/ML/DL/NLP, Business Intelligence and more. Through its affiliate Unthinkable, it develops software solutions with a new approach to software engineering which leverages user data at every stage of software development.
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Jean-Louis is a product management leader with responsibility for Broadcom’s Open Mainframe and DevOps value streams. He has over 20 years’ experience in change and configuration management, application lifecycle management and DevOps. Prior to Broadcom, he led product teams at CA Technologies, IBM and Telelogic and he is based in Prague, Czech Republic.
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Vijayan is an independent journalist and tech content creation specialist who has been covering the technology industry for more than 20 years. He writes for several publications mainly on data security and privacy. He was most recently a senior editor at Computerworld.
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Pramod Vishwakarma is Senior Technical Lead working with Technology Office in HCL Technologies. He has expertise in Middleware, AWS, DevOps consulting & implementation . He is associated with DevOps COE, working on design and Development of DevOps solutions and consulting tools.
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Wilko Visser is the CEO at ValueBlue, a company behind the SaaS platform BlueDolphin: an Enterprise Architecture tool for Agile Business Transformation. Prior to starting the company in 2011, Wilko spent time as a senior executive across both self-started organizations and private corporations with thousands of employees. A strong believer in the promises of digital transformation, Wilko is excited about the innovation BlueDolphin is enabling for organizations across the globe.
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Louis Vistola is a technology journalist with more than 20 years of experience writing about application development, high-performance computing, communications systems, and IT. He started his professional life writing unwieldy simulation and analysis programs that ran on Harris Computer and Cray systems. He has served as an editor or writer for general business journals and trade magazines covering the energy industry and life sciences. A collection of some of his articles can be found herehere.
Matt Vizard
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Mike Vizard is a seasoned IT journalist with over 25 years of experience. He also contributed to IT Business Edge, Channel Insider, Baseline and a variety of other IT titles. Previously, Vizard was the editorial director for Ziff-Davis Enterprise as well as Editor-in-Chief for CRN and InfoWorld.
Denis Volkov
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Denis Volkov is the Vice President of Technology at ClearScale. He has been managing complex IT projects for 11+ years. His expertise is in Cloud Services, Managed Services, Product Technical Support and Technical Account Management.
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Cory von Wallenstein is the Chief Technologist of Dyn where he is the voice of the company’s technical vision and preeminent solution architect for customers. He works with all departments within engineering to set and promote the strategy, innovation and development of all Internet Performance solutions for Traffic Management, Message Management and Performance Assurance.
He is a leading voice on cloud computing having spoken on the topic at Interop, Velocity, Structure, CloudCamp, and DevOps Days and written on the subject for Wired, Datacentre Solutions Europe, and PandoDaily. Additionally, Cory co-chairs the Cloud & SaaS Cluster of the Mass Technology Leadership Council and mentors at the Harvard Innovation Lab and TechStars Boston.
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Jaymin Vyas works as a Content Marketing Head at TatvaSoft UK. Having years of experience in leveraging knowledge about technology trends, management, leadership and much more buzzing things related to the IT industry.
