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Surya Baby is digital marketing executive at Vmoksha Technologies.
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Formerly a developer and currently a product marketing geek at Riverbed Technology. DevOps activist by night, in search for better ways to help IT teams get stuff done and make big, positive impacts within their organizations.
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Arunava Bag is CTO, UK and Europe, for Digitate. He is an experienced IT consultant and leader with 23+ years of experience with deep expertise in AI and ML-based software products, performance engineering, analyst interactions, infrastructure capacity modelling, IT optimization, high performance computing, performance lab/CoE management, application development/maintenance and technology practice management.
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With a passion for working on disruptive products, Anas Baig is currently a Product Lead at SECURITI.ai. He holds a Computer Science Degree and did his Bachelors in Science from Iqra University. His interest includes Information Security, Networking, Privacy, and Data Protection.
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Alexey Baikov is a cloud operations expert with over 12 years of experience in building state-of-the-art cloud and on-prem solutions. Alexey is passionate about hyper-scale architectures and distributed systems and has formerly led cloud infrastructure teams. His professional experience includes 3 years of service in the Elite Technology Unit of the Israeli Air Force.
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Garima is thought leader in DevOps & Cloud technologies. She is the founder of DevOps Community of Practice, Canada, supported by Crowdbyte Solutions Inc. She leads the ambassador program for Continuous Delivery Foundation. Some might know her as a course contributor and instructor for various DevOps courses from leading certification bodies. She has over two decades of experience leading large-scale R&D with a variety of teams and has helped them adapt DevOps to increase team productivity when it comes to cloud resource deployment. Furthermore, she has delivered many international conference talks, written several technical blog posts, and published white papers.
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Mark Baker is Field Product Manager at Canonical. Prior to Canonical, Mark worked at MySQL and Red Hat where he enjoyed disrupting large, billion-dollar incumbent technology companies.
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Tyler Baker serves as the CTO of Foundries.io. Tyler is an experienced software professional with over 15 years of experience in the industry. Previously, Tyler led open source software teams at Linaro and worked upstream on the Linux kernel.
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Karun Bakshi loves imagining, building and talking about software-driven innovation. He has spent his career in software in nearly all associated capacities in engineering, product management, evangelism, partnerships, business development and product marketing at various companies including Lockheed Martin, Oracle, Microsoft, Pivotal and Delphix. Whether it's discussing corner cases of algorithms or go to market strategy, he's game if you are.
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David Balaban is a computer security researcher with over 15 years of
experience in malware analysis and antivirus software evaluation. David
runs the Privacy-PC.com project which presents expert opinions on
contemporary information security matters, including social engineering,
penetration testing, threat intelligence, online privacy and white hat
hacking. David has a strong malware troubleshooting background, with the
recent focus on ransomware countermeasures.
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Adam Baldwin is head of security at npm Inc., the company that powers the world’s JavaScript. An information security professional with over 24 years of experience, Adam has spent his career building companies, breaking into companies, managing teams, designing products and talking about security non-stop. Previously, Adam founded ^Lift Security, a successful application security and penetration testing service company, and the Node Security Platform, an initiative to track vulnerabilities in the JavaScript ecosystem. The project evolved into a SaaS platform at the forefront of the continuous security movement. Both were acquired by npm, Inc. in early 2018.
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John J. Balena is a thought leader in the areas of DevOps, Cloud, IT Automation, Security & Compliance, ITSM and ITOM. He is Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales & Services for the Orca application configuration automation and compliance solution.
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Sama Bali is product marketing manager, machine learning and AI services, AWS.
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Co-founder, CEO and Head of Product at Strong Network Inc. Professional in cybersecurity, innovation, life-long learner, startup with successful exit. Guest professor at Keio University Grad. School, Tokyo Japan
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Fred Bals is a senior software security technical writer and researcher within the Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Center (CyRC). He is a Mini Cooper fanboy and has worked for both Google and Bob Dylan at various points in his career.
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Ravi Balupari is co-founder and vice president of engineering and threat research at CloudVector, where he leads the development of its API Threat Protection platform and the creation of special projects, such as API Shark, the free API observability tool. Previously, Balupari was head of threat research at Netskope, and spent 10 years as a security researcher with McAfee.
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Jitesh Banga is a product marketing enthusiast who likes to talk about business integration and how enterprises can gain a competitive edge by better customer data exchange. He has 10 years of experience in product marketing for SaaS companies.
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Passionate Architect!!! Tracy “Trac” Bannon is a Sr. Principal with the MITRE Corporation. She is an accomplished software architect, engineer, and researcher specializing in applying AI/ML and Generative AI to the software development lifecycle. Trac's work is at the intersection of pioneering software practices and transformative leadership in technology.
She’s passionate about community building and knowledge sharing. Trac is a long-time advocate for diversity in technology, helping to narrow the gaps as a mentor, sponsor, volunteer, and friend.
Ms. Bannon is a featured industry speaker, blogger, author, and accomplished podcaster including 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 and 𝗢𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗛𝗼𝗽𝘀. Trac is a senior member of the IEEE.
Tracy Bannon
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Magdalena Baracz joined Freeport Metrics in 2016 as an intern and became a senior mobile developer two and a half years later. She holds a master’s degree from Warsaw University of Technology, where she became interested in mobile development and later in data science. Born into a programming family from the small city of Puławy, it’s no wonder that being a developer was her first career choice. At Freeport Metrics she develops mobile applications for both Android and iOS. She enjoys being a part of a diverse team of developers, testers, and designers, all of whom come together to deliver a fully functional product. When she’s not coding, she enjoys live music and traveling. One of her life goals is to visit one new country every year.
Tony Barbagallo
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Tony Barbagallo is vice president of marketing at DuploCloud.
Michael Barbine
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Mr. Barbine is a highly skilled, creative and adaptive technologist with over 13 years of professional experience in senior engineering roles, engineering management and consulting roles. Michael has an education in business and MIS. He is also one of the core organizing members of the annual DevOpsDays DC conference held annually at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Michael is passionate about scalable, fast, efficient and secure I.T., engineering and business solutions. His background accomplishments include some of the top industry companies such as Sysco, Mandiant, FireEye, Optiv and Excella Consulting!
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Tal Barmeir is the Co-founder and CEO of AI testing solution BlinqIO, headquartered in Delaware, US. BlinqIO’s mission is to free the technology industry of its testing constraints by providing a fully autonomous, 24/7 available testing platform to achieve UI/UX QA excellence and speed up delivery and roll out of product.
Anthony Barnhart
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Dylan Barrell is Deque's CTO and leads product development initiatives. He works to help build a barrier-free web by making it really easy for developers, quality assurance engineers and content writers to create accessible applications and content. Dylan has an MBA from the University of Michigan and a BS from the University of the Witwatersrand.
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Doug Barth is a software generalist who has currently found himself doing operations work at PagerDuty. Prior to joining PagerDuty, he worked for Signal in Chicago and Orbitz, an online travel company. He loves beer, foosball and Tool. You can follow him on Twitter @dougbarth
PagerDuty is an operations performance platform designed to make businesses more reliable by eliminating the noise and chaos across the entire operations lifecycle. To learn more visit www.pagerduty.com.
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Monoj Baruah is Managing Consultant, Modern Applications Services at Wipro Ltd. Baruah has 21 years of overall experience in IT products/services development, architecture, project management and consulting. He has been consulting clients in architecture areas like product portfolio strategy, product architecture, IT solution architecture, IT transformation, cloud architecture, business process architecture, data architecture and integration architecture. He also has hands-on experience in cloud-based application architecture and design, IoT solution components development, application refactoring etc.
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Kristin Baskett is senior manager, product marketing at CloudBees.
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I am Kovid, working as a marketing head for Typo and host of the podcast Beyond the Code.
Over the last year, I have been consistently dedicating my efforts to helping engineering teams become better by sharing the best practices for engineering leaders & managers. Now I want to enhance the impact of my thoughts and learnings through channels like DevOps.com that have more visibility and would help me help the engineering teams across the world even more.
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Yudhish Batra is a Distinguished Engineer for Capital One Software, an enterprise B2B software business of Capital One. In his current role, he leads solution architecture for Capital One Slingshot. Yudhish has more than 17 years of software and data engineering experience. He has a Bachelor's degree in computer science and lives in Richmond, VA, with his wife and two daughters. In his free time, Yudhish likes to play or watch cricket and spend time with his family.
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Ethan Batraski is a partner at venture capital firm Venrock.
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Dr. Denis Bauer is a research team lead at Australia’s national research agency (CSIRO), her team specializes in using BigData technology for Life Science research.
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Jason Baum is the senior director, developer relations and marketing at Sauce Labs.
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Bill Bauman leads SaaS platform strategy at Virtru. He has worked in processor and network product development, technical sales, business development, content and product marketing, and led innovation and engineering teams. Bill holds patents in memory management for virtualization and is published in the field of processor performance.
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Ilai Bavati is content editor at Agile SEO, Israel.
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Helen Beal is a DevOps and Ways of Working coach, Chief Ambassador at DevOps Institute and an ambassador for the Continuous Delivery Foundation. She provides strategic advisory services to DevOps industry leaders and is an analyst at Accelerated Strategies Group. She hosts the Day-to-Day DevOps webinar series for BrightTalk, speaks regularly on DevOps topics, is a DevOps editor for InfoQ and also writes for a number of other online platforms. She regularly appears in TechBeacon’s DevOps Top100 lists and was recognized as the Top DevOps Evangelist 2020 in the DevOps Dozen awards. Beal worked with DevOps Institute’s Eveline Oerhlich and the team of DevOps Ambassadors to develop the DevOps Institute's Assessment of DevOps Capabilities (ADOC).
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Dan Beauregard is ZeroNorth’s DevSecOps Evangelist where he is responsible for helping organizations deliver application security at the speed of DevOps. Dan has held numerous leadership roles in strategy, solution engineering and product management at leading cloud and application delivery companies (Digital.ai, XebiaLabs, Scalr, DynamicOps—acquired by VMware). He brings to ZeroNorth over 15 years of experience guiding organizations in their adoption of the latest cloud and DevSecOps technologies and is a Certified Solution Architect with AWS. He spent the first part of his career in Development, focusing on building highly distributed, fault-tolerant systems for leading storage companies.
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Bryan has been working in application development and security in the startup scene since 2003. Before working at WhiteHat Security, he lived and worked in the startup hub of Asia (Shenzhen, China) as a contractor. There he helped multiple startups develop internal and external facing applications, as well as develop strong security policies that are actually realistically achievable with strapped resources. He has also been heavily involved in the blockchain startup industry in Hong Kong where he helped small teams get their proof-of-concept blockchain apps up and running in order to present to venture capitalists.
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Jim Bednar leads the HoloViz group at Anaconda, working with commercial, academic, and government clients like Pangeo.io to improve Python software for visualizing and analyzing large and complex datasets. Dr. Bednar holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas, along with Electrical Engineering and Philosophy degrees. He has published over 50 academic papers and books and manages the HoloViz suite of open source Python projects (including hvPlot, Panel, GeoViews, Datashader, Colorcet, and Param). Before joining Anaconda in 2015, Dr. Bednar was a faculty member in Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, for 10 years.
Christian Beedgen
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As co-founder of Sumo Logic, Christian brings 15 years experience creating industry-leading enterprise software architecture. Most recently, Christian served as chief architect for ArcSight ESM and ArcSight Logger. He led development teams that built and delivered the core of the ArcSight product line across server infrastructure and user interaction. He designed and implemented the core backend event handling and mapping frameworks, and was integral in the design and development of core product features for real-time query processing.
Kris Beevers
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Kris Beevers, CEO & Founder
Kris is an internet infrastructure geek and serial entrepreneur who’s started two companies, built the tech for two others, and has a particular specialty in architecting high volume, globally distributed internet infrastructure. Before NSONE, Kris built CDN, cloud, bare metal, and other infrastructure products at Voxel, a NY based hosting company that sold to Internap (NASDAQ:INAP) in 2011.
Kris enjoys architecting and building infrastructure tech, but he also loves spending time with NSONE’s customers, partners, and others in the infrastructure space. You’re just as likely to find Kris answering support tickets as banging out new code for NSONE’s delivery platform.
Kris holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from RPI. Sometimes he misses living on his old boat in Singapore, but NYC is pretty great too.
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Somik Behera is Co-Founder and Head of Products at CloudNatix, where he is working to bring planet scale cluster management to enterprises making the journey to multi cloud native apps. Previously, he led multiple product leadership roles at D2iQ (formerly Mesosphere), Nicira and VMware.
Tina Behers
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With 25+ year's experience in transformation, business process management, program management, and corporate strategy, Tina helps Adaptavist's clients realise the full value of agile at scale. Her proven ability to assess organisational needs, develop strategic and tactical solutions, and lead high-performing teams has benefited many organisations. She is also a Jira Align authority, with almost a decade's experience in the tool.
Juan Jose Behrend
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Juan Jose Behrend is Director of Engineering at Pomelo in LATAM, the fintech that has developed a new infrastructure for financial services in Latin America, allowing any fintech, crypto or sector company in digital transformation (banking, retail, agriculture, education, etc. ) offer banking products and card issuance to its customers. He is a Telecommunications Engineer graduated from ORT Uruguay. He has an MBA from the Eude Business School, a Master in Digital Business from the IEBS Business School and a Diploma in Data Science and Big Data from MIT. Previously, he worked leading the Infra and Platform areas, being Manager of Infra at Pedidos Ya and Head of Platform at d-local. With experience in banking security among the main banks in Uruguay Santander, Itau and Banco de la Republica.
Behrend has more than 15 years of experience in Technology. He is Professor and Faculty Tutor. He obtained various certifications such as ITIL, CCSP, AWS Architect Professional; among other. Also, it was awarded as the best Engineering project 2018 in Uruguay. In his free time, he volunteers in various NGOs and Communities.
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Anna has nearly ten years of experience researching and advising organizations on cloud adoption with a focus on security best practices. As a Gartner Analyst, Anna spent six years helping more than 500 enterprises with vulnerability management, security monitoring, and DevSecOps initiatives. Anna's research and talks have been used to transform organizations' IT strategies and her research agenda helped to shape markets. Anna is the Director of Thought Leadership at Sysdig, using her deep understanding of the security industry to help IT professionals succeed in their cloud-native journey. Anna holds a PhD in Materials Engineering from the University of Michigan, where she developed computational methods to study solar cells and rechargeable batteries.
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Gaurav Belani is senior SEO and content marketing analyst at Growfusely. He likes sharing his knowledge in a wide range of domains ranging from business, human capital management, emerging technologies and much more. His work is featured in several authoritative tech publications like Jaxenter, Computer.org, ItChronicles Open Data Science.
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Dan Belcher is co-founder of mabl. He has spent his career building products to make life easier for software teams. Prior to mabl, Dan led the Product Management organization for a portfolio of DevOps tools at Google. He joined Google in 2014 through its acquisition of Stackdriver, a company that he co-founded. Dan spent his early career in product and technical leadership roles at VMware, Sonian, and Microsoft.
Zack Belcher
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Ganesh Bell joined Insight Partners as a Managing Director to invest in and help entrepreneurs build great software & data companies that will define modern enterprise and digital business. He is a profound student of the enterprise software market and industries reimagined by data.
Ganesh has over 25+ years of rare experience as a builder and operating executive across startups, high-growth scale-ups, global conglomerates, unicorns, successful exits, IPO, and M&A.
Before joining Insight Partners, he ran Uptake, an AI/ML platform & applications company, was Corporate Officer at General Electric, and CEO of its largest IoT & Analytics software business. Previously he held senior leadership roles at market-defining enterprise software companies including SAP, PeopleSoft, and J.D.Edwards. He started as a developer and has led corporate strategy, engineering, product management, marketing, and sales teams over his career.
He has keynoted large conferences, been featured in business books, leading media, and recognized for his work, including being named #11 in Fast Company’s list of 100 Most Creative People in Business World.
Ganesh Bell holds a B.S in Mathematics from the University of Madras, India, and an M.S in Computer Science from North Dakota State University. He lives in San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and their Australian Cobberdog Moto, named after his passion for motorcycling.
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Henry Bell is the Head of Product at Vendorland, where he drives transformative growth through digital transformation strategies. A business technologist with a highly analytical mind, Henry excels as a collaborative problem solver. His outstanding cross-functional skills encompass product leadership, application management, and data analytics.
Kirsty Bell
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Since the early 2000's, I've been involved in many other open-source projects, ranging from Eclipse projects to Apache ones. Since October 2010, I've been working as Product Manager at SonarSource for the SonarQube and SonarLint open source projects and the SonarCloud online service. I'm now taking care of the Product Management team at SonarSource.
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Ronit Belson is COO of Rollout.io, in charge of Marketing, Sales, business and corporate development. Before Rollout, she was appointed as COO of Cloudmeter (acquired by Splunk) after a year of serving as the company's VP of marketing and business development. Prior to Cloudmeter, Ms. Belson served as senior vice president of Business and Corporate Development at OpTier, where she was responsible for securing relationships that grew the product offering and business opportunities. Before joining OpTier, Ms. Belson served as a marketing and business consultant in the application management space. She founded an end-user testing and monitoring company and served in business development and sales roles at Identify Software (later acquired by BMC). Ms. Belson holds a BA, Cum Laude, in Economics and East Asia Studies from Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and an MBA from the University of Rochester's Simon School of Business.
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David Ben Horin is the Chief Marketing Officer for RavenDB, the first non-relational document database to become fully transactional (ACID). He has been covering technology for over 10 years. Feel free to say hi at [email protected].
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Asher Benbenisty is the director of product marketing for Algosec. Asher is an experienced product marketing professional with a diverse background in all aspects of the corporate marketing mix, product/project management as well as technical expertise. Asher is passionate about bringing innovative products that solve real business problems to the market. When not thinking of innovative products, Asher enjoys outdoor running especially by the ocean.
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Orr Benjamin, VP Product at groundcover, reinventing the cloud-native application performance monitoring domain with eBPF. Orr has excelled at various product roles in leading companies over the last decade, including Monday.com, Citi and Seeking Alpha.
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Dan Bennett is an engineering manager at application monitoring software company Sentry.
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Maya is vice-president of product management at Quali. Originally a biomedical engineer, she somehow got into software and automation, and immediately felt at home. When not traveling she is the IT person at home, and the only one allowed to change router configurations. Outside of work, she likes drawing, carving and reading.
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Innovation expert Jason Beres is SVP of Developer Tools at Infragistics and developer of Reveal embedded analytics software. Jason has written tech articles for various pubs, speaks at national conferences, and has authored/co-authored 10 books on software/development. His expertise in development further extends to ensure data and analytics are displayed in innovative and customer-driven MO for Windows Forms, ASP.NET, Silverlight, WPF and Java products. Jason is an expert on technology issues such as the software testing process, data-driven teams, customer input in product design, open source, and changes in data analytics and business intelligence over the past 30 years.
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Joe Berg is General Manager of Slalom Build. He is an accomplished technology executive with vast experience across many industries and functional business domains. Throughout his career, Joe has maintained a deep focus on driving business impact through the use of technology and data for organizations across the globe. An Iowa native, he holds a degree in Business Administration from University of Iowa. He lives in Seattle with his wife and two daughters, and, depending on the season, heads to the mountains or the coast to enjoy the beautiful PNW as often as life allows.
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KC Berg is the CTO of Bounce.io. Prior to Bounce, KC was a CoFounder and CTO at JumpCloud. KC has also been a Sr. Security Researcher at Level 3 Communications, Director of Architecture at Symplified and before that Director of Engineering at StillSecure.
Berg has been been developing software professionally in the area of networking and security since he was 19 years old and has a deep passion for creating innovative software solutions to complex network and Internet related security problems.
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Igor Bergman, Vice President of Cloud & Software for Lenovo, is a software and cloud transformation engineering and product leader with extensive experience in software businesses, product management, startups and business development. He is currently heading Lenovo’s $1 billion global software business unit. He believes that what makes a product great is a crazy focus on resolving real customer problems, a motivated and collaborative team, and creating a clear and inspiring vision. His current focus is on cloud solutions that, he believes, will redefine traditional industries.
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Orlee Berlove is the Marketing director at OnPage Corp.
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Daniel Berman is Product Evangelist at Logz.io. He is passionate about log analytics, big data, cloud, and family and loves running, Liverpool FC, and writing about disruptive tech stuff. Follow him @proudboffin.
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David Bermingham is Technical Evangelist at SIOS Technology. He is recognized within the technology community as a high-availability expert and has been honored to be elected a Microsoft MVP for the past 8 years: 6 years as a Cluster MVP and 2 years as a Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP. David holds numerous technical certifications and has more than thirty years of IT experience, including in finance, healthcare and education.
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Sabine Bernecker-Bendixen (46) is working as a consultant for more than 20 years. She is moderating workshops, leading projects up to 100 participants and teaching people of different professions in communication skills, soft skills and leadership skills. She helps new teams growing together and leaders finding their own people centred way of bringing out the best inside of them. To work on and manage agile projects means a lot more than technical tools and putting different people together especially in soft skills. According to her, "agile" is not only a management technique - it is a way of thinking and believe, a way of behaviour and living! She assists leaders, teams and companies to create and implement their own agile, human focused team culture and helps them to reflect their situations. LaaS – Leadership as a Service is what she demands of modern leaders. This year she has been one of the speakers at the DevOpsDays in Ljubiljana and Paris. She writes a column about soft skills in the German developer magazine.
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Ben Bernstein co-founded Twistlock, Inc. in 2015, and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Ben has 14+ years of experience in enterprise security and operating systems. He is a Microsoft veteran with extensive experiences in both software development and product management. Ben is a veteran of the Israeli Intelligence Corps. He has a B.A cum laude in Computer Science from the Technion in Israel and an MBA with a scholarship of excellence from the Interdisciplinary Center in Israel.
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Chris Bertinato is a systems architect with NS1, where he is responsible for technical stewardship of DNS systems and products as they evolve. Though he is a dyed-in-the-wool generalist, he enjoys distributed systems, automation of network management and aviation.
Sophie Beshar
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Sophie Beshar joined Insight in 2019 and focuses on high-growth software and internet companies.
Prior to joining Insight, Sophie worked at Google on the Google for Education team. She has also worked on the trading floor at Goldman Sachs and the Hillary for America presidential election campaign in 2016.
Sophie graduated from Stanford with a degree in Economics and a minor in Mathematics. While at Stanford, she served as Senior Vice President of Stanford Women in Business and played on the club lacrosse team.
Outside of work, Sophie enjoys traveling, having spent a semester abroad in Berlin. She holds Australian citizenship and frequently makes the 30-hour plane trip to visit family.
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Bertrand Besnard is a French Software Engineer who migrated to Oslo. He has since then been working on some of the biggest Norwegian projects as a sysadmin such as NAV and Autosys. He is currently employed by Sopra Steria.
He is interested in process analysis and human interactions and travels the world to discover more cultures, and food, lots of food.
Anthony Bettini
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Anthony Bettini is the Chief Technology Officer for WhiteHat Security. Previously, Anthony ran Tenable Research where he joined via Tenable’s acquisition of FlawCheck – a leading Container Security startup where Anthony was the Founder and CEO. Before FlawCheck and Tenable, Anthony was the Founder and CEO of Appthority, a leading Mobile Security startup and winner of the “Most Innovative Company of the Year” award at the RSA Conference. Anthony led Appthority to successful acquisition by Symantec in 2018. At WhiteHat, Anthony leads product management and development, engineering and threat research.
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Nóra Bézi works as a content marketing specialist at Bitrise, a mobile-specific CI/CD platform. She writes about how developers in startups, unicorns and enterprises implement Mobile DevOps practices to speed up and automate their mobile development process so that they can focus on what’s most important: writing better code every day.
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Rahul leads a global team that develops the digital architecture for Kissflow’s suite of products & solutions. He has more than a decade’s experience in helping enterprises reach their digital transformation goals using low-code and no-code platforms. Prior to Kissflow, Rahul has worked closely with large brands such as Outsystems and Kony Inc. in the Middle East. Rahul leads the company’s product development team to ensure relevant and impactful features and functionalities are incorporated into Kissflow’s solutions portfolio.
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A seasoned Engineering leader in the field of DevOps, machine learning, and Data Infrastructure.
Diverse experience across verticals such as healthcare, cryptocurrency, and cybersecurity.
Extensive experience collaborating with cross-functional teams, including Cloud Infrastructure, Automation, and Security with a particular focus on AWS.
Led multiple presentations on DevOps, Infrastructure, and Automation. Author of scholarly articles on Dzone
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Rajat Bhargava is an entrepreneur, investor, author, and currently CEO and co-founder of JumpCloud. An MIT graduate with over two decades of high-tech experience, Rajat is a ten-time entrepreneur with six exits including two IPOs and four trade sales.
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Rishi Bhargava is Co-founder and VP, Marketing for Demisto. Prior to founding Demisto, he was Vice President and General Manager of the Software Defined Datacenter Group at Intel Security and Vice President of Product Management for Datacenter and Server security products at McAfee, now part of Intel Security. Rishi has over a dozen patents in the area of Computer Security. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi and a Masters in Computer Science from University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
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Ritu Bhargava works in DevOps COE in HCL Technologies as Software Engineer, working with Log Monitoring Tool Tools (ELK), GitLab, Jenkins and some other Devops Tools.
Simmi Bhargava
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Swapnil Bhartiya is a writer, filmmaker and podcaster who has been covering Open Source and Emerging technologies for over 12 years. He is founder and editor of TFiR.io. He brags about having met in person and interviewed almost all the leading personalities Open Source world - ranging from Richard M. Stallman to Linus Torvalds. He is currently also working on several science fiction novels.
Bob Bickel
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Bob is a 30-year software industry veteran who mentors and works closely with emerging software companies. In addition to co-founding RedLine13, he is currently the CEO of GiveSignup | RunSignup and a board member for CloudBees. Other companies he has advised include Hyperic (acquired by SpringSource, in turn acquired by VMware), Bristol Technologies (acquired by IBM) and Princeton Softech (acquired by HP). Bob was vice president of strategy at JBoss (acquired by Red Hat), where he was responsible for the company’s growth strategy, early strategic partnerships and recruitment of key management personnel. Previously, Bob was general manager of Hewlett-Packard’s middleware division. He came to HP through its acquisition of Bluestone Software, which Bob helped create. At Bluestone, he oversaw initial sales, marketing and product development. He also led product strategy through the company’s IPO and, later, its acquisition by HP. You can learn more about Bob at https://bobbickel.com.
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Josh is a 25-year veteran of the tech industry who loves to talk about monitoring, observability, OpenTelemetry, network telemetry, and all things nerdy. He has experience with Fortune 25 companies and pre-seed startups alike, across manufacturing, healthcare, government, and consulting verticals.
Marko Bijelic
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Before joining Guide-Rails, Eric held technology leadership positions at Apple, Google, eBay, and AltaVista. As Apple’s Director of Internet Services Operations, Eric oversaw the company’s transformation into one of the world’s best Internet service organizations. As Engineering Director at Google and in earlier positions with eBay and AltaVista, Eric helped the companies scale their infrastructure during times of exponential growth.
The challenges of a fast-paced and growing technology business energize Eric, and he enjoys building self-motivated teams that innovate and inspire those around them to succeed. Eric earned a B.S. in Nuclear/Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts.
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Dmitry Binunsky is vice president of platforms and products at Exadel. Dmitry brings with him over 20 years of experience in software engineering and leadership. He is also the current CTO of Appery.io, a leading low-code application development platform used by half a million developers worldwide.
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Shahar Binyamin is the CEO and co-founder of Inigo.io, which focuses on GraphQL security and management tools for developers and DevSecOps teams. A software engineer by trade, he has extensive experience working on high-profile enterprise application and security projects. Among his roles, Shahar spent several years within the InfoSec Unit of the Israeli Defense Forces. He has also led product development at Dropbox and Kiteworks, with a focus on ensuring data and API security. He co-founded Inigo to address the disconnect between developers using GraphQL and the API security and operation challenges they were having. Shahar lives in Silicon Valley, where Inigo is headquartered.
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Casey Bisson is the head of product and developer relations at BluBracket, a Palo Alto-based provider of code security solutions. Casey has over 15 years of experience as an engineering and product leader in consumer and B2B SaaS, with a background in building, launching, and scaling tools and *aaS solutions in cloud infrastructure, media, and regulated IT markets. Casey’s work is at the intersection of technical capability, business imperatives, and customer needs. Before joining BluBracket, Casey held senior positions at Joyent and Flickr.
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David Bisson is an information security writer and security junkie. He's a contributing editor to IBM's Security Intelligence and Tripwire's The State of Security Blog, and he's a contributing writer for Bora. He also regularly produces written content for Zix and a number of other companies in the digital security space.
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Dan Blacharski is a thought leader, advisor, industry observer and PR counsel to several Internet startups, and author of the book "Born in the Cloud Marketing: Transformative Strategies for the Next Generation of Cloud-Based Businesses." He has been widely published on diverse subjects relating to cloud computing and technology, and he is editor of NewsOrg. He lives in South Bend, Indiana with his wife Charoenkwan and their Boston Terrier, "Ling Ba."
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Cindy Blake is VP Marketing at Firefly, a startup aimed at solving many of the challenges of CloudOps, and how infrastructure-as-code is managed in a DevOps world. Prior to Firefly, Cindy was Director of Product Marketing at GitLab, a leader in the DevOps market. Blake was instrumental in leading GitLab’s integrated DevSecOps, growing that business more than 10x
over four years and through IPO. Her O’Reilly book, “The CISOs Guide to Securing Next-Gen Software” combines nearly a decade of cyber security experience with a background in lean and software development to simplify the complexities of application modernization into pragmatic advice for security programs.
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John Robert Blamire is the COO and founder of Falanx Group. John is a former officer in the British Army, having served for 10 years in Europe, Middle East and Americas gaining a wealth of operational experience in challenging circumstances and environments. He co-founded Praetorian Protection Ltd, a company providing specialist security services to clients around the globe. He founded Falanx in 2012, and led the IPO of Falanx Group in June 2013 and the acquisition of Stirling Assynt. He and the Falanx team provide end-to-end managed threat detection, security monitoring, incident response and risk management services to leading organizations around the globe.
Marcus Blankenship
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Nearly 20 years ago I made the leap from senior-level hacker to full-on tech lead. Practically overnight I went from writing code to being in charge of actual human beings. Without training or guidance, I suddenly had to deliver entire products on time and under budget, hit huge company goals, and do it all with a smile on my face.
Greg Bledsoe
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Greg Bledsoe is a Managing Consultant at Accenture in the DevOps architecture practice, where he leads the implementation of DevOps principles and practices in the fortune 500. He brings twenty years of experience building performant, automated, cost effective environments, and was implementing DevOps principles before there was a term for it. Greg is a regularly published author, frequent conference speaker, and has spent his career keeping platforms secure, scalable, and reliable. He is a certified ethical hacker and certified penetration tester, and led delivery teams where they implemented secure multi-cloud PaaS. Greg has tackled large scaling challenges across multiple industry sectors that crossed boundaries from high performing teams to technology.
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As Chief Experience Officer, Sean Blenkhorn is responsible for eSentire’s overall products and services experience. Sean brings over 20 years of Information Technology expertise to the role and has demonstrated success delivering security and compliance solutions to customers across mid-market and large enterprise. Prior to leading the Experience organization, Sean served as Chief Product Officer, leading the product management, product, marketing, advisory services, and applied threat teams. His eSentire experience also includes leadership as the Field CTO, focused on providing pre-sales engineering support and high-end, strategic consulting services. Sean’s former roles include leadership roles with several strategic Symantec partners and directly with Symantec and their Managed Security Services group and Global Threat Intelligence team. Sean holds a degree in Software Engineering from Georgian College in Ontario, Canada.
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Amanda Blevins is a Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for the Americas at VMware. She enables customers and partners to achieve their business objectives by co-creating a comprehensive technology strategy with executive leaders. She focuses on cloud, edge, and emerging technologies. Amanda collaborates with VMware’s R&D business units to ensure VMware’s portfolio meets the strategic needs of our customers and the industry. She is passionate about innovation and enabling cross-functional teams to be successful in their creative efforts. Amanda leads the Office of the CTO Global Field Programs that develop technical talent and provides program members the opportunity to participate in Office of the CTO projects and initiatives. Amanda has been in the IT field for over 25 years in various infrastructure operations and architecture roles throughout her career. She joined VMware as a Sr. Systems Engineer in 2010. She became VMware’s first female Principal Systems Engineer a few years later. As VMware’s first and only female Chief Technologist, she leverages her experience and network to drive awareness and equality for women and all underrepresented people in technology fields. Most importantly, Amanda believes in "Doing the Right Thing".
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Maksim Blishchik is Reblaze's Senior DevOps Engineer, working across Reblaze's global network of operations. Maksim is in charge of infrastructure and deployment for the entire Reblaze client network. Maksim has been with Reblaze for more than 2 years and has 8 years of experience in similar roles.
Maksim is a professional in Cloud architecture, from planning to deployment, across all major cloud providers.
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Jason Bloomberg is a leading IT industry analyst, author, keynote speaker and globally recognized expert on multiple disruptive trends in enterprise technology and digital transformation.
He is founder and president of digital transformation analyst firm Intellyx. He is ranked among the top nine low-code analysts on the Influencer50 Low-Code50 Study for 2019, #5 on Onalytica’s list of top Digital Transformation influencers for 2018, and #15 on Jax’s list of top DevOps influencers for 2017.
Mr. Bloomberg is the author or coauthor of five books, including Low-Code for Dummies, published in October 2019.
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Rory Blundell is the CEO of Gravitee.
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Kevin Bocek is Vice President, Security Strategy & Threat Intelligence at Venafi. He brings more than 16 years of experience in IT security with leading security and privacy leaders, including RSA Security, Thales, PGP Corporation, IronKey, CipherCloud, NCipher, and Xcert. Kevin led the investigation that identified Secretary Hillary Clinton’s email server did not use digital certificates and encryption for the first 3 months of term. In 2013, he led Venafi’s investigation into how Edward Snowden used cryptographic keys and digital certificates to breach the NSA. Kevin has a B.S. in chemistry from the College of William and Mary and an MBA from Wake Forest University.
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Sam Bocetta is a freelance journalist specializing in U.S. diplomacy and national security, with emphases on technology trends in cyberwarfare, cyberdefense, and cryptography. He currently is working as a part-time cybersecurity coordinator at Assignyourwriter.co.uk
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Stefan Bocutiu is the head of engineering at Lenses.io. With more than 17 years building and architecting enterprise software in the healthcare, gaming and investment banking industries, he now dedicates his time to helping companies and engineering teams adopt DataOps practices.
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Originally launched in the mid 70's, Matthew has pursued an aggressive growth strategy, while delaying as much as possible any substantive exit events. Having spent most of his career around software development and startup culture, Matthew is an ardent supporter of the devops movement. He is a 16 year technology veteran, focused mainly in building linux based systems.
As Vice President of DevOps at Craftsy, Matthew has spent the past several years deeply focused on cloud infrastructure, and scaling the technology needs of a rapidly growing startup.
Previously, Matthew was a recreational sky diver, roller coaster enthusiast, and racer of automobiles. Finding these pursuits lacking in sufficient excitement, he and his wife Kelly produced a son, Ian, and a daughter, Cora, who together provide ample levels of joy and adventure.
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Kateryna Boiko is a Marketing Director at Mobilunity, Provider of Dedicated Development Teams with 9 years of hands-on experience in digital marketing. Kateryna has worked within diverse industries and markets and now is keen on sharing unique cases with the world on topics relevant to Web Analytics and Search Engine Optimization.
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Bertrand Boisseau is the Automotive Sector Lead at Canonical. Bertrand has a strong background in engineering and is passionate about innovation, consumer electronics, cloud computing, connectivity, and high-tech. With over 10 years of experience in the connected car industry, Bertrand is a seasoned expert in his field. At Canonical, Bertrand is responsible for driving the open source portfolio towards the automotive industry. His focus is on creating cutting-edge solutions that help companies in the automotive sector stay ahead of the curve.
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Jeroen Boks is CIO at TOPdesk. TOPdesk develops, implements and supports software that helps organizations efficiently manage the services they provide. TOPdesk's software is for organizations of all sizes, from small businesses to large multinationals, and is available as a local installation or in the cloud.
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Ann Marie Bond is a senior manager for product marketing of webMethods at Software AG. She initially led the Integration Competency Center at webMethods, using webMethods’ own software to solve business problems. Ann Marie then leveraged her technical expertise as a sales engineer. Moving to a more strategic role, she was the product manager for webMethods Suite and Operational Intelligence products for several years. Ann Marie is a certified Zapthink SOA Architect and has a PMP. She has a B.S. in Computer Science from George Mason University.
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Jonas Bonér is CEO and co-founder of Lightbend, and the creator of the Akka event-driven middleware project. Previously he was a core technical contributor at Terracotta, working on core JVM-level clustering technology, and at BEA, as part of the JRockit JVM team. Jonas has also been an active contributor to open source projects including the AspectWerkz Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) framework and the Eclipse AspectJ project. He is an amateur Jazz musician, passionate skier and holds a Bachelors of Science from Mid Sweden University.
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Christoph Börner is a multi-organizational founder, developer, tester, speaker, and in his spare time, a pretty great drummer. He is the Senior Director of Digital for Cyara and the co-founder of Botium, the leading industry standard in test automation for chatbots, voice assistants and conversational AI.
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Dmitrii Borodin, founder of GRIN tech—a boutique agency doing things online and claiming to do a full cycle: design, development, and marketing. Apart from client projects and everyday hustle GRIN tech’s team is playing around with in house projects like GRIN launcher and GRIN games.
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Yakshit Bose is senior developer at custom WordPress development services company CMARIX Technolabs Pvt. Ltd. Yakshit is an experienced WordPress developer. He enjoys writing about web development, CMS development and technology news.
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Refael Botbol Weiss Heads the Customer Adoption department at Broadcom’s Continuous Testing(CT) BU and is responsible for the end-to-end experience of BlazeMeter CT customers. He brings over 15 years of experience ranged from startups to enterprises to help our customers overcome quality and performance issues by successfully implementing our Continuous Testing solution. He is also the Head of BlazeLabs (BlazeMeter innovation lab) which contribute (dev & test) tools to the community as part of the our “contribute back” policy.
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Renaud Boutet is Vice President of Product at Datadog. Previously Renaud served as co-founder & Chief Product Officer at Logmatic.io, which was acquired by Datadog. Prior to Logmatic.io, Renaud led the development of high performance Business Intelligence solutions for financial institutions such as Quartet Financial Systems and Dassault Systemes. He is a graduate of both Supélec and the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Adam is a technology leader with over 15 years of experience in technical, sales, and senior leadership roles. As the Strategic Advisor in the Office of the CTO, Adam focuses on international markets, expanding the DataOps ecosystem, and evaluating technology partnerships. The majority of Adam’s time is spent working with other thought leaders in the Global F100 to eliminate key business constraints through people, process, and technology.
Adam's background is in DevOps, TDM, Cloud, and Security for the US government and global financial powers. Adam routinely speaks at events about these topics with other industry visionaries like Gene Kim, and publishes blogs posts and articles on these subjects frequently. Adam was recently commissioned as a Kentucky Colonel in recognition to his commitments to public service and charitable works.
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Don Boxley Jr is the CEO and Co-Founder of DH2i (www.dh2i.com). He has over 20 years of experience in management positions for leading technology companies. Boxley earned his MBA from the Johnson School of Management, Cornell University.
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Justin Boyer is a technology writer and regular contributor to The Inside Trace.
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Oleg Boyko is Chief Technology Officer at Exadel (www.exadel.com). He brings 20 years of experience in developer management and IT leadership roles at companies like Royal Bank of Scotland and BMO Harris Bank. Boyko holds a B.S. in Biology from Loyola University Chicago and an M.S. in Distributed Computing Systems from DePaul University.
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Jeff Bozic is a principal architect at Insight, Cloud + Data Center Transformation. Jeff consults with mid and large-size organizations regarding IT modernization strategies and tactics to support business transformation initiatives.
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Jeff Bradley is Regional CTO, Southeast & Federal, Continuous Delivery at CA Technologies, responsible for learning and understanding our customers’ strategic goals as they relate to their Software Delivery Life Cycles and assisting them in formulating strategies for successful business outcomes. He brings more than 20 years of broad and varied experience, ranging from software development at AT&T Bell Labs to co-founding a communications software company whose products are used by broadcasters and communications providers worldwide. Jeff came to CA Technologies from the 2011 acquisition of iTKO. Jeff holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Applied Mathematics.
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Scott is a technology management professional with over 25 years of experience managing teams in the development and delivery of software. Over the last 14 years, he’s been responsible for all aspects of cloud-based software development and delivery including development, test, information security, risk management and compliance. Scott’s passion lies in working with teams on how to efficiently and effectively deliver highly available, secure software.
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I have a passion for technology and gadgets--with a focus on Microsoft and security--and a desire to help others understand how technology can affect or improve their lives. I also love spending time with my wife, 7 kids, 2 dogs, 5 cats, 3 rabbits, 2 ferrets, pot-bellied pig and sulcata tortoise, and I like to think I enjoy reading and golf even though I never find time for either. You can contact me directly at [email protected]. For more from me, you can follow me on Twitter and Facebook.
Michael Brandt
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Steve Brar is the Director of Solutions Marketing for Riverbed. In this role, he leads the marketing strategy for Riverbed's Application Performance Platform and cross-portfolio solutions. Steve has been with Riverbed since 2014. Prior to joining Riverbed, Steve led product marketing for HP's campus networking product lines. At HP he held engineering, product management roles, and product marketing roles. He has more than 12 years of experience in the networking industry. Steve graduated with a BS in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of California, Davis. He is currently based in San Francisco, California.
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Gunnar Braun is a technical account manager within the Synopsys Software Integrity Group where he supports large organizations create secure software. He’s been working with software development tools for 20 years and has worked his way up from compiler building and simulation of embedded systems to web applications. Gunnar’s areas of interest and expertise include CI/CD, static code analysis, secure software development, DevSecOps, fuzz testing, IoT security and embedded systems. He lives and works in Aachen, Germany.
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As Founder and CTO of FireMon, Jody Brazil is a seasoned entrepreneur with more than two decades of executive management experience and deep domain expertise in all aspects of networking, including network security design, network security assessment, and security product implementation.
Before joining FireMon in 2004, Brazil spent eight years at FishNet Security, serving as Chief Technology Officer, where he was responsible for providing direction for solutions to their customers. Previously, he was president and founder of Beta Technologies, a Network Services and Internet Application Development company. A few of Brazil’s major accomplishments include his implementation of the first load balanced deployment of Check Point firewall software in 1997. A year later he engineered the security solution that allowed, for the first time, the transfer of criminal history data over the Internet as approved by the FBI. Brazil then released the first ever graphical firewall policy change view in 2001 and the first ever firewall rule usage analysis application in 2004. Brazil holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Kansas State University
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Ben Breard is a principal product manager at Red Hat focusing on immutable operating systems and bringing Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift to the edge. As a true believer in open source, he also enjoys evangelizing Linux, Kubernetes, containers and systemd.
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David is a software visionary with expertise in user interaction, software design, 3D machine vision, AR/VR, IoT, AI and solutions architecture. He is the founder and CEO of Umajin, where he created a powerful digital platform that allows teams to create digital processes, apps and content much quicker than through traditional techniques. David spends most of his time traveling around the world working with Umajin commercial teams, meeting with partners and advising customers on new projects and product launches. His work has led to the creation of Umajin applications that have over 30 million instances shipped with partners like Dell, HP, Intel, IBM and Sony.
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Jim brings more than 21 years of experience in the development, management and marketing of technology solutions. Jim joined BetterCloud from IBM, where he served as VP of product management for the company’s security operations and response portfolio.
Prior to IBM, he led the product management team responsible for infrastructure security services at Dell SecureWorks. Other notable roles include positions with Internet Security Systems, Red Hat, EMS Technologies and the U.S. Department of Defense.
Jim holds a Bachelor’s Degree in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and an MBA from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University.
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Brennan is Managing Director at Orasi Software, leading the Advanced Technology Solutions (ATS) division. Orasi’s ATS helps clients accelerate agile delivery, improve DevOps pipeline efficiency, and drive operational excellence. The ATS team partners with IT leadership to develop strategic technology vision, navigate complex transformations, and provide leadership/management for critical technology initiatives. Prior to Orasi, Brennan served as a CIO services and technology content expert for North Highland, specializing in establishing, delivering, and rescuing complex, strategic agile-based programs, cloud initiatives, and operating frameworks.
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Benjamin Brial is the founder of Cycloid, sustainable platform engineering. Previously with eNovance and RedHat, Ben values trust, upskilling and transparency in both Cycloid’s company culture and the platform’s role in improving end-users' experience and operational efficiency to accelerate software delivery, hybrid cloud and DevOps at scale.
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Laurent Bride joined Talend in 2014 as Chief Technical Officer. He came with 17 years of software experience during which he held various individual, management and executive roles in customer support and product development. Most recently, Laurent was CTO at Axway where he was responsible for R&D, Innovation and Product Management. He has also spent more than nine years in the Silicon Valley, working for Business Objects and then SAP. Laurent holds an engineering degree in mathematics and computer science from EISTI.
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David Brimley is product consultant at in-memory computing company Hazelcast. He has traveled the world, helping people make sense of in-memory data grids. With 30 years in the IT industry, he began his career as a Cobol programmer before moving into investment banking IT as a Java developer and architect. During this time, David developed a deep interest in distributed systems research, focusing on consensus and reliability. He has deep expertise in server-side Java, developing highly concurrent, high-throughput systems. Throughout his career, he has programmed and architected business-critical trading systems using technologies such as Oracle Coherence, Pivotal Gemfire and Hazelcast.
Monica Brink
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John Bristowe is the Community Director at Octopus Deploy. John has more than 20 years of experience in the industry, including management positions at both Progress and Microsoft. John is a highly respected figure in the developer community. John is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and has produced a wealth of content through code, articles, webinars, videos, and podcasts. In his talks, John offers practical insights and tips based on his extensive experience and is known for his engaging and entertaining presentation style.
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Derek Britton is an IT professional with over 20 years software industry experience. A computer science graduate from De Montfort University, Derek has held a variety of software engineering, technical consulting and product management positions in the IT industry, and is currently the global director of AMC product at Micro Focus.
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Jill Britton has over 30 years of embedded software experience across a variety of industries. She has worked as a software engineer and manager for telecommunications, automotive, defense, and education software.
Britton is now the Director of Compliance at Perforce and is a committee member of MISRA. Jill holds a BSc in Computer Science and Statistics from Newcastle University, and a MSc in Computer Science from Brunel University London.
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Bernard Brode is a product researcher at Microscopic Machines and remains eternally curious about where the collision of AI, cybersecurity, and nanotechnology will eventually take us.
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Darren Broemmer has been a developer and engineering project manager, working at a range of companies, including AWS. He currently is Developer Evangelist at DevGraph.
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Keith Bromley is a senior product management and marketing professional at Ixia, a Keysight business, with over 25 years of high tech software and hardware experience. In his role, he is responsible for thought leadership, product management and marketing activities for network monitoring, network security, VoIP and unified communications (UC) for enterprise and carrier solutions.
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David Brooks is Senior Vice President of Evangelism at Copado. He spent nearly 9 years at Salesforce as the Vice President of Product Management where he was responsible for building the AppExchange and later managing teams on the Force.com platform team. At Copado, Brooks is committed to helping customers implement DevOps for the Salesforce platform.
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Tania Brooks is a business journalist with a focus on emerging technologies and emerging markets. She used to work as an overseas operations coordinator for Unilever.
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Steve is the President at Phase Change Software, AI technology that exponentially improves software development. Steve has 30 years of experience in technology-related organizations with leadership, technical and sales roles in the financial services and healthcare industries with hands-on work across multiple disciplines within software development and other aspects of the business.
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Julia Brouillette currently holds the position of Senior Technologist, Imply. Previously, she held the position of Content Marketing Manager at Twilio; Data Product Manager and Data Scientist at Aurora Insight; Digital Strategy Associate at Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Texas; and News Editor of The Daily Texan. Brouillette holds a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism from The University of Texas at Austin.
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As Chief Experience Officer, James Brown leads JumpCloud‘s efforts in product strategy, user experience, and marketing. James is laser-focused on every customer touch point with JumpCloud and ensures that JumpCloud’s products meet its customers’ wants and needs, and provide real, measurable benefits. Mr. Brown joined JumpCloud after a successful 11-year stint at StillSecure. Mr. Brown, whose final role at StillSecure was CEO of the company, was responsible for a number of functional areas during his tenure including software engineering, architecture, product management, engineering management, and marketing. Prior to StillSecure, James held senior engineering roles at CareerWizard.net and Qwest Dex (now Dex One).
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Eric Bruno is a writer and editor for multiple online publications with more than 20 years of experience in the information technology community. He is a highly requested moderator and speaker for a variety of conferences and other events on topics spanning the technology spectrum from the desktop to the data center. He has written articles, blogs, white papers, and books on software architecture and development topics for more than a decade. He is also an enterprise architect, developer, and industry analyst with expertise in full lifecycle, large-scale software architecture, design, and development for companies all over the globe. His accomplishments span highly distributed system development, multi-tiered web development, real-time development, and transactional software development.
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Nicole Bryan is Vice President of Product Management at Tasktop Technologies. Nicole has extensive experience in software and product development, focused primarily on bringing data visualization and human considerations to the forefront of Application Lifecycle Management. Most recently, she served as director of product management at Borland Software/Micro Focus, where she was responsible for creating a new Agile development management tool. Prior to Borland, she was a director at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Regulatory Division, where she managed some of the first Agile project teams at the NYSE, and VP of engineering at OneHarbor (purchased by National City Investments). Nicole holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from DePaul University. She is passionate about improving how software is created and delivered – making the experience enjoyable, fun and yes, even delightful.
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Daniel Bryant works as an Independent Technical Consultant and Product Architect at Datawire. He currently specialises in enabling continuous delivery within organisations through the identification of value streams, creation of build pipelines, and implementation of effective testing strategies. Daniel’s technical expertise focuses on ‘DevOps’ tooling, cloud/container platforms, and microservice implementations. He is also a Java Champion, contributes to several open source projects, writes for InfoQ, O’Reilly, and Voxxed, and regularly presents at international conferences such as OSCON, QCon and JavaOne.
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Shane Buckley is President and Chief Operating Officer of Gigamon with responsibility for expanding the company’s business and markets worldwide. He brings more than 20 years of executive management experience to the team and joins Gigamon from Xirrus where he was CEO prior to its 2017 acquisition by Riverbed Technology. Prior to that, Shane served as the General Manager and Senior Vice President at NETGEAR, where he led its commercial business unit to 50 percent revenue growth over two years.
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Renata Budko is head of product at Traceable.ai. She is an accomplished Product Management, BusDev and Marketing executive with interest in cloud, security and mobile infrastructure.
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Cristina is a Founding Engineer at Cortex, the Reliability-As-Code platform for engineering teams to effectively manage and scale their microservices, funded by Sequoia Capital and YCombinator. Before joining Cortex, Cristina led an engineering team at Bridgewater Associates, where she developed a portfolio analytics platform for the largest institutional investors in the world. Cristina graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a double major in Systems Engineering and Computer Science.
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Yegor Bugayenko is an Oracle certified Java architect, co-founder and CTO of Teamed.io, lead architect of rultor.com and jcabi.com, and a big fan of test automation. He is regularly writing about object-oriented programming, project management and DevOps on his blog at www.yegor256.com
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Michael is an Ex-Army Green Beret turned application security engineer. Currently, he serves as the senior enlisted Cyber Network Defender for the North Carolina National Guard. In his civilian career, he is the Director of Application Security and content team lead for Security Journey, a SaaS-based application security training platform. He leverages his security knowledge and experience as a developer to educate and challenge other developers to be a part of the security team.
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Jeremy Burton is the chief executive officer of Observe, Inc. Prior to Observe, Jeremy was Executive Vice President, Marketing & Corporate Development of Dell Technologies, and served as President of Products, overseeing EMC’s $15 billion business. Jeremy joined EMC from Serena Software, where he was President and CEO. Previous to Serena, he led Symantec’s Enterprise Security product line as Group President of Security and Data Management. Jeremy also served as Veritas’ Executive Vice President of Data Management Group and Chief Marketing Officer. Earlier in his career, he spent nearly a decade at Oracle as Senior Vice President of Product and Services Marketing. Jeremy has been a member of the board of directors at Snowflake since 2015, and maintains a seat on the advisory board at McLaren Racing.
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Zack is G2's research analyst for IT and development software. He leverages years of national and international vendor relations experience, working with software vendors of all markets and regions to improve product and market representation on G2, as well as build better cross-company relationships. Using authenticated review data, he analyzes product and competitor data to find trends in buyer/user preferences around software implementation, support and functionality. This data enables thought leadership initiatives around topics such as cloud infrastructure, monitoring, backup and ITSM. Coverage areas include cloud computing, storage and backup, monitoring, DevOps.
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Mike is Vice President of Enterprise Cloud Marketing at Juniper Networks. Mike spent 12 years at Juniper in a previous tour of duty, running product management, strategy, and marketing for Junos Software. In that role, he was responsible for driving Juniper's automation ambitions and incubating efforts across emerging technology spaces (notably SDN, NFV, virtualization, portable network OS, and DevOps). After the first Juniper stint, Mike joined data center switching startup Plexxi as the head of marketing. In that role, he was named a top social media personality for SDN. Most recently, Mike was responsible for Brocade's data center business as vice president of data center routing and switching, and then Brocade's software business as vice president of product management, software networking.
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Tammy Butow is a Principal SRE at Gremlin where she works on Chaos Engineering, the facilitation of controlled experiments to identify systemic weaknesses. Gremlin helps engineers build resilient systems using their control plane and API. Tammy previously led SRE teams at Dropbox responsible for Databases and Storage systems used by over 500 million customers. Tammy was also an IMOC (Incident Manager On-Call) at Dropbox where she was responsible for managing and resolving high severity incidents across all of Dropbox. Previously, Tammy worked in infrastructure engineering, security engineering, and product engineering. Tammy is an Australian and enjoys skateboarding, snowboarding, mosh pits, crowd surfing, metal and hardcore punk.
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Will Button has spent most of the last 10 years working with tech startups as a DevOps resource. He favors practical application over trendy frameworks, iteration over projects, and uptime over excuses. He is passionate about finding the right mix of technology and process as an additive to business workflows and measuring results.
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Dries Buytaert is an open source developer and technology executive. He is the original creator and project lead for Drupal, an open source platform for building websites and digital experiences. Buytaert is also co-founder and chief technology officer of Acquia, a venture-backed technology company. A Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum, he holds a PhD in computer science and engineering from Ghent University and a Licentiate Computer Science (MsC) from the University of Antwerp. He was named CTO of the Year by the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council, New England Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young, and a Young Innovator by MIT Technology Review. He blogs frequently on Drupal, open source, startups, business and the future at dri.es.
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Chris Byers is CEO of Formstack, a workplace productivity platform helping companies digitize what matters, automate workflows, and fix processes. Launched in 2006, Formstack is trusted by more than 27,000 organizations worldwide—including Cleveland Clinic, NHL, Netflix, Twitter, and Butler University—to quickly and easily build custom forms, create documents, and collect eSignatures. You can connect with him on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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Ciaran Byrne is the vice president of product management OpsRamp. He has built and led product management functions in multiple startups in the area of IT Operations Management over a 25-year career in high tech.
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Joe Byrne is a Regional CTO at AppDynamics, a part of Cisco. His primary focus is on working with customers and prospects on strategy and supporting digital transformation efforts, including incorporating application security, and also has extensive experience in retail and e-commerce. Prior to AppDynamics, Joe held technology leadership roles at Albertsons, EllieMae and Johnson and Johnson.
