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CEO of Adaptavist since 2010, Simon Haighton-Williams has been responsible for Adaptavist’s hyper growth in over 60 markets, its diverse customer base including more than half of the Fortune 500, and its recognition as a Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 company. Haighton-Williams has been in software development since the ‘90s and has worked both with the private and public sector. His breadth of experience scans from finance to music; from corporate to start-up with the common focus of enabling teams to collaborate more effectively together.
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Caleb Hailey is the co-founder and CEO of Sensu, where he helps businesses solve their stickiest monitoring challenges. Before founding Sensu, Caleb was president at Heavy Water Operations as well as director of product development at Novitas Data, where he rebuilt their software development division, shortened development cycles from years to weeks and cemented deals with several Fortune 500 companies. An Oregon native, Caleb loves contributing to open source projects, wine tasting and cheering the Portland Timbers to victory.
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Liran is co-founder and CTO at Rookout. He’s an award-winning cybersecurity practitioner and writer. As an advocate of modern software methodologies like agile, lean and DevOps, Liran’s passion is to understand how software actually works.
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Milind Halapeth is Vice President at Wipro Limited and heads the Global Cloud Practice in Cloud and Infrastructure services. He works with customers to craft and accelerate their digital transformation journey by blending strategy, technology and new ways of working. He is an avid learner and business IT enthusiast who believes in a cross-functional leadership approach. Milind has played a key role in developing next-generation transformative offerings and executing growth strategies at Wipro.
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Dipanjan Haldar is a Principal Cloud Engineer at Fidelity with over 17 years of experience in software development and architecture. Renowned for his expertise in designing scalable and maintainable systems, Dipanjan has led significant projects at top companies like Cisco and Oracle, contributing to award-winning innovations. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science from Northeastern University and an Advanced Certificate for Executives from MIT Sloan Executive Education. Dipanjan is also a mentor for MIT’s Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program (UPOP) and a sought-after speaker and judge at prominent technology competitions
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Tom Hall is a DevOps enthusiast and practitioner with a background heavy in network administration and datacenter virtualization. Novell's CNE, VMWare's VCP, EMC's Data Specialist and Certified ScrumMaster are just a few of the certifications he has acquired over the past two decades. Although originally from Ann Arbor, Michigan, he has lived all over the country in his pursuit of the perfect climate. He recognizes the value of diversity and strongly believes in sustainable food sourcing, although he often fails to practice what he preaches in that regard. He is currently working as a 'DevOps Engineer' in Austin, TX.
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Chris Hallenbeck is a security professional with years of experience as a technical lead and cybersecurity expert. In his current role as CISO for the Americas at Tanium, he focuses largely on helping Tanium’s customers ensure that the technology powering their business can adapt to disruption. Before joining Tanium in 2016, Hallenbeck worked for six years on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Computer Emergency Readiness Team, where he gained a strong background in computer-related investigative work.
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Omer Hamerman is a Principal DevOps Engineer at Zesty.co. After earning his BS in Computer Science from Ben Gurion University and a BSc in Industrial Engineering and Management from Shenkar College, Omer began his career in DevOps and never looked back. Omer loves learning about new technologies and better approaches to merging Dev and Ops. He currently lives in London with his wife and daughter and enjoys climbing, hiking, and other outdoor activities. In his spare time, he writes about his experiences with various technologies on Medium and https://omerxx.com/. Follow him at @0merxx to learn more.
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Syed Hamid is the CEO and founder of Sofy, a no-code automated mobile app testing platform. Millions of people use mobile apps every day, and app development teams must test their apps before every release/update. This increasingly complex and resource-intensive process is time-consuming. Fortunately, Sofy’s innovative platform makes the necessity of testing mobile apps swift and painless. Before starting Sofy in 2016, Syed worked as an engineering leader for nearly two decades at Microsoft.
Wesley Hand
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Derek Handova is a senior security advocate within the Synopsys Software Integrity Group. At Synopsys, he focuses largely on filling software security knowledge gaps in firms of all shapes and sizes. Playfully referring to himself as a ‘tech whisperer’, Derek particularly enjoys translating technical topics and jargon into customer benefits.
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Jintao Hang, is a junior DevOps engineer working onsite at a major financial services regulatory firm. He took the AWS certification three months after starting onsite and he’s a recent graduate.
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Blair Hanley Frank is a technology analyst covering cloud computing, application development modernization, AI and the modern workplace.
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Georg Hansbauer is co-founder and CEO of Testbirds, a world-leading crowdtesting provider. He is responsible for the further development of the company's services and IT infrastructure as well as sales and marketing. Georg has extensive experience in the field of enterprise testing - from automated testing of complete IT service desks to load testing - and has managed numerous IT projects for international corporations. He graduated from the elite program "Finance and Information Management" at the University of Augsburg and the Technical University of Munich and holds a Master of Science with distinction (M.Sc Hons).
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Bill Hansen serves as senior product manager of cloud services at StorageCraft.
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Mike brings nearly 20 years experience building and leading global product development organizations ranging from start-ups to the Fortune 100. Most recently Mike was Vice President of Development for Hanley Wood where he led development across five product lines, including the creation of advanced business analytics platforms for the residential construction industry. Prior to this, Mike was Vice President of R&D for Bantu where he led product development efforts that drove one of the worlds largest private instant messaging networks with the U.S. Department of Defense. Earlier in his career, Mike was part of the early interactive television efforts at Bell Atlantic which, as a byproduct, helped commercialize DSL as one of the initial high-speed on ramps to the internet and later produced Verizon FiOS.
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Adam Hanson, project management practice director at Nerdery.
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Harry Haramis has more than 30 years of experience in the field of Information Technologies with extensive experience designing and developing state-of-the-art security technology solutions for the most complex and sensitive information systems. He has worked on projects of all sizes and in all areas of Network & Security infrastructure. As a proven leader, Harry has led teams of technical engineers to the successful conclusion of countless projects. He has published several white papers as well as hosted several seminars and presentations. He holds some of the industry’s highest certifications including CCIE #6772, CCNP, CCNA, CCSE, CISSP, CNE, VCP, and MCSE+I.
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Kevin Harbauer is the CTO at Ephesoft where he is responsible for the company’s product strategy, leading the company’s technology and product teams in the development and delivery of content acquisition and data enrichment solutions. Harbauer has 20 years of diverse software development, management, operations and implementation experience, and proven success building high-performing product development and IT teams. He has helped organizations adopt innovative technologies and practices, including DevOps, Continuous Delivery, SaaS, cloud-based, cybersecurity initiatives and data-driven operations.
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Lindsey Hardy is the compliance manager at Threat Stack. She is a member of the Threat Stack Security Team, specializing in cybersecurity policy. Lindsey focuses on strengthening the Threat Stack compliance program and growing the privacy program. Lindsey is a licensed attorney in Massachusetts and is currently receiving her MS in Cybersecurity from Boston College.
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Chen Harel is co-founder and VP of product at OverOps, a continuous reliability solution that helps companies identify, prevent and resolve critical software errors before they impact customers. At OverOps, Chen is focused on building a world-class platform for the enterprise and has his hands in all things product and engineering, ranging from major product launches, to implementing DevOps practices. Prior to OverOps, Chen was team lead at Autodesk, where he led the development of the company's flagship cloud infrastructure.
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Josh has 10 years of experience in IT industry as a web developer and cloud computing expert researching extensively at techendo.com. He frequently writes about IT and branding efforts. In his free time, you will often find him taking a walk, or playing video games.
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Malcolm has dedicated his career to helping organizations understand and improve cyber risk management, winning multiple awards for security leadership, innovation, and excellence. He has been a featured speaker at industry events, authored books and articles on IT risk, taught at the UCLA business school’s CIO Institute, and testified on cybersecurity before the US Senate. At Epiphany Systems, Malcolm is responsible for enabling client growth with optimal information security infrastructure, systems, policies, and processes.
Before joining Epiphany, Malcolm was Chief Security and Trust Officer at Cylance and Cymatic, and Chief Security and Privacy Officer at Intel Corporation. He has also served on the boards of TrustMAPP and the Cyber Risk Alliance, and advised Verizon Media Group, Arista Networks, and many growth-stage cybersecurity companies. Malcolm received a BS in Economics from the University of California at Irvine, and an MBA in Finance and Accounting from the University of California at Davis.
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James Harper is the Direct of Product at Virtana where he leads cross-functional teams to execute on company goals and initiatives and drives business metrics. With over ten years of experience in the IT software, hardware, and services industry, James has advanced knowledge of product positioning, coordinated marketing campaigns, and partner pipeline development. He is passionate about people and technology and works to develop creative and enthusiastic approaches to all projects, challenges, and opportunities.
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Sophie is passionate about making the complex world of experimentation accessible to everyone with core engineering, growth, design and product principles in mind. As product manager at Split, her goal is to help companies across a wide range of industries experiment and rollout software in the safest and most effective way. Before Split, she held several positions at Skyscanner, spending her last year as the growth experimentation manager. In 2015, she graduated from the University of Strathclyde in Scotland with first class honors in international business.
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Chris Harris is Vice President, Global Field Engineering at Couchbase, a provider of a leading modern database for enterprise applications. With almost 20 years of technical field and professional services experience at early-stage, open source and growth technology companies, Chris held leadership roles at Cloudera, Hortonworks, MongoDB and others before joining Couchbase.
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Reuven Harrison is CTO and Co-Founder of Tufin. He led all development efforts during the company’s initial fast-paced growth period, and is focused on Tufin’s product leadership. Reuven is responsible for the company’s future vision, product innovation and market strategy. Under Reuven’s leadership, Tufin’s products have received numerous awards and wide industry recognition.
Reuven brings more than 20 years of software development experience, holding two key senior developer positions at Check Point Software, as well other key positions at Capsule Technologies and ECS. He received a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Philosophy from Tel Aviv University.
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Sam Harrison has been responsible for building award winning international sales teams and has a particular interest in emerging technology trends and innovative methodologies including DevOps, Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. You can find him on LinkedIn, Twitter or at various technology conferences across North America.
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B E Harsha Vardhan is working as DevOps Engineer at Sigmoid. He has vast experience on cloud platforms, open source tools like linux, kubernetes, docker, jenkins, apache spark, YARN, databases like BigQuery, MySQL and MongoDB, and is well versed in programming on Python, Java, Shell script, C++ and C.
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Adam is a veteran technology journalist, writer and PR consultant. His interests include augmented reality and mixed reality entertainment, technology training and education technology.
James Harvey
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James Harvey heads up the DevOpsGroup Academy, where he's on a mission to create the tech workforce of the future and help organisations harness the power of agile working. A BCS Accredited Training Partner and certified Agile trainer, James been leading the Welsh agile movement for over a decade. He also co-organises the South Wales Agile Group and is the former CEO of Agile Snap.
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Robert Hawk is Resident Security Expert at xMatters. He has extensive experience in Information Systems Security, Computer Security, Cyber Security, Information Assurance, as well as Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Management. He specializes in frameworks and standards from: ISO/IEC, NIST, IEEE, IETF, ITU-T, Common Criteria, AMI-SEC, NERC, CIS, DoD, ANSI, PCI, and ISECOM. Robert is a lifelong researcher, innovator and instructor.
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Gerald Haydtner works for Dynatrace, the leader in digital performance management that enables companies to manage thousands of servers with very small IT monitoring teams. Gerald is a trained software developer with a passion for performance optimization.
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Brendan Hayes is director of solutions marketing at Broadcom, responsible for cross-portfolio solution marketing for enterprise software. Brendan has over 15 years of experience marketing emerging technologies, and joined CA after several years at Juniper Networks. When he’s not marketing technology, Brendan can be found breaking and fixing motorized vehicles or exploring the great outdoors.
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Robert Haynes is a field engineer, solution architect, and marketer. He tells stories you might enjoy listening to. Even if they are about computers. He's pretty good at breaking things, then fixing them before anyone notices.
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Thomas Hazel is Founder, CTO, and Chief Scientist of ChaosSearch. He is a serial entrepreneur at the forefront of communication, virtualization, and database technology and the inventor of ChaosSearch's patented IP. Thomas has also patented several other technologies in the areas of distributed algorithms, virtualization and database science. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from University of New Hampshire, Hall of Fame Alumni Inductee, and founded both student & professional chapters of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
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Kristin Hazlewood is the vice president and general manager for BigFix at HCL Software, responsible for all aspects of BigFix product strategy, execution and operations.
Kristin has more than 15 years of experience in the software industry, leading product development organizations through periods of growth and transformation. Most recently, Kristin led the BigFix transition from IBM to HCL Software, successfully establishing the business at HCL and growing market share. Kristin was influential in the formation of the HCL Software Federal business; most notably, defining secure software engineering and support protocols protecting product integrity and earning the trust of U.S. federal government agencies.
An acknowledged expert in endpoint management and security, Kristin holds 35+ software patents.
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Steve Hegenderfer is the Senior Director, Developer Ecosystem at Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), a leading supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms. He is a veteran technology professional with a particular focus on the mobile, embedded, and IoT industries and has contributed to both startups and large companies over his 25+ years in technology. He has seen the tech industry change from on-premises mainframes, to client-server models, and now to cloud-based computing over his career and is still excited to see the innovations that technologists like himself see on a weekly basis.
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A personal focus on the cultural side of DevOps and keeping the passengers on your journey informed. Inspired by the Phoenix Project novel. Organiser of DevOps Manchester Meetup based in Manchester, UK.
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As CEO of Atrium, Chris leads a world-class team in empowering companies to embrace the next generation of tech through the power of AI. Prior to founding Atrium, Chris was the COO at Appirio where he was responsible for leading the company's global consulting, sales, and operations teams. Chris started his career with Accenture and later founded Bay Street Solutions, a CRM/Siebel consulting firm, acquired by Perficient. He earned his undergraduate degree from UC Davis and MBA from UC Berkeley. Chris brings more than 15 years of sales, professional services and marketing experience across solution areas that include CRM, business intelligence, enterprise integration and custom application development.
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Volker Held is the head of marketing for managed services at Nokia, focusing on the transformation toward the 5G era. He has over 20 years of experiences in marketing and business development in the telecommunications industry. Prior to his current role he was responsible for the market development and the creation of Nokia’s end-to-end value proposition in 5G. He was also one of the founders of Nokia FutureWorks and brought Technology Vision 2020 to life.
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Matthew Helmke is a technical writer for Gremlin, which is dedicated to making the internet more reliable. He has been sitting at a keyboard since buying his first computer in 1981 and has enjoyed doing things with big computers since studying LISP on a VAX in 1985. He has written books about Linux, VMware, and other topics. Matthew always enjoys those moments when no one else notices something has failed because mitigation schemes work as designed.
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Boyd Hemphill is Director of Infrastructure Services at Kasasa LTDwhere he manages System Operators, DBAs and Internal Compliance. In the Austin Tech Community, Boyd organizes the Austin DevOps Meetupalong with the DevOps Days Austinand Container Days Austinconferences.
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Josh Hendrick is a Senior Solutions Engineer at Rookout. He loves discovering new tech and has worked across a wide range of companies specializing in software development and DevOps. Over the years he's been an avid traveler and has done consulting work across the world with technology firms in places like Hong Kong, Australia, and across Europe. In his free time, you'll find him practicing Tai Chi, playing guitar and producing music.
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Mike Hendrickson is vice president technology and developer products at Skillsoft. Prior to Skillsoft, Mike spent 15 years at O’Reilly Media, Inc. where he most recently was the VP of content strategy. Mike is a technology strategist with extensive experience establishing, building and maximizing relationships with industry leaders, companies, and partners. Throughout his career, Mike has demonstrated success leading, directing and managing the development, sales and delivery of thought-provoking content.
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Martin Henley is senior vice president of Globality’s technology services sector group. Henley and his team collaborate with customers to innovate through AI and immediately unlock cost savings by revolutionizing their service procurement process to deliver better results across their technology-related service spend. He previously was managing director and group chief information officer at XL Catlin, a US-listed $15 billion revenue (re)insurance company. An accomplished change and people leader with more than 15 years of experience in global financial services, Henley has a successful track record of identifying and working with startups, as well as implementing AI, blockchain and robotics initiatives.
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Brad Henry is the Director of Marketing for TPGi. With 15+ years of experience in digital marketing with a focus B2B SaaS, e-commerce, and data/analytics, he brings the perspective of content creation and digital property ownership to the accessibility space.
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Lenley Hensarling is the chief strategy officer of Aerospike. Lenley has more than 30 years of experience in engineering management, product management and operational management at both startups and large successful software companies. Lenley previously held executive positions at Novell, Enterworks, JD Edwards, EnterpriseDB and Oracle.
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Richard is senior manager of Ansible Product Management at Red Hat and responsible for the Ansible Automation Platform strategy. With 16 years of experience in financial services IT across a range or operational, design and architecture roles. As well as being an Ansible customer before joining the Red Hat team, Richard brings a customer focused viewpoint to compliment the strong engineering capabilities of one of the most popular open source projects.
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Jean has spent 20 years in information technology and business process improvement. Successful in business analyst, IT tool management, and customer success roles, at Adaptavist Jean helps enterprise clients transform their processes and teams to deliver exceptional value.
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Alex leads product marketing at ThousandEyes, and brings a perspective gained from working on innovative networking and analytics technologies since the early days of the commercial internet.
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Marcel Hergaarden is Senior Manager, Product Marketing at Red Hat's Cloud Storage and Data Services division. He has deep expertise in storage and data management solutions, spanning technical sales and engineering roles. Marcel is based in Amsterdam.
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Mirco leads Accenture’s DevOps & Agile practice in the Asia-Pacific region, which focuses on Agile, DevOps and Continuous Delivery to establish lean IT organisations. He has over 10 years experience in accelerating software delivery through innovative approaches. Mirco experienced the positive effects of Agile when he used it for the first time to rescue a failing project. He delivered this project successfully to the client, which seemed impossible only months before. Since then, bringing Agile together with DevOps practices has been the recipe for Mirco’s project success. In the last few years Mirco has focused on the organizational aspects that support scaling these practices and methods to large complex environments. He has been supporting major public and private sector companies in Australia and overseas in their search for efficient IT delivery. Mirco is Accenture’s global DevOps offering lead and is currently leading the transformation effort for a major delivery program. Mirco is a regular speaker at industry conferences and shares his insights in industry publications and on his own blog (http://notafactoryanymore.com).
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Mark Hermeling, senior director of product marketing for GrammaTech, has more than 20 years of experience in software development tooling, operating systems, virtualization and networking technology in safe and secure, embedded and real-time systems. He has worked on projects building automotive, networking, aerospace and defense and industrial devices in North America, Europe and Asia. Mark also worked for Wind River Systems (an Intel Corporation subsidiary), Zeligsoft and IBM Rational.
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Adam Hert is a product manager and the technical account manager of customer success at SolarWinds, a role he has held since 2016. In his role, he provides technical solutions for Traceview customers. Prior to joining SolarWinds, Adam was a founder and software developer at Knackd. He also served as a technical support engineer at AppNeta.
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Jeremy Hess is Head of Developer Relations at Akeyless. He is an avid community supporter and co-organizes a number of local events and meetups including DevOpsDays Tel Aviv, Cloud Native & OSS Tel Aviv, and DevRel Israel. He has been working with startups and OSS companies for over 8 years and loves working with new tools and technologies.
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Nick Heudecker is the Senior Director of Market Strategy & Competitive Intelligence at Cribl. Prior to joining Cribl, he spent over seven years as an industry analyst at Gartner, covering the data and analytics market. With over 20 years of experience, he has led engineering and product teams across multiple successful startups in the media and advertising industries.
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April Hickel serves as Vice President, Product Management, Intelligent Z Optimization and Transformation (IZOT) for BMC. Her responsibilities include understanding software market dynamics; setting product strategic direction; and working directly with customers, from acquisition to deployment, for BMC’s IZOT portfolio. She has over 20 years of diversified experience in enterprise software with a focus on IT Operations Management solutions. April is a frequently requested speaker on AIOps and actively participates in many national user groups and industry events. April’s previous experience included managing BMC’s TrueSight portfolio. She has a passion for working directly with customers to create innovative solutions to the difficult problems they face in running and reinventing a business.
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Tom Hickman is vice-president of engineering at Edgewise Networks. Edgewise is Tom’s eighth startup. Past roles have included director of global sourcing at Iron Mountain, where he built and maintained a global outsourcing center of excellence, and vice-president of engineering at My Perfect Gig, an agile development firm that built data-filled search and analytic software. Most recently, Tom served as vice-president of engineering at Veracode, where he helped grow Veracode from a single product company to a multi-product security platform, acquired by CA Technologies for $600 million.
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Gar Higgins is a full-stack engineer at Cambly with a passion for education, people, and software (and databases!). His focus is scaling Cambly to keep up with their rapidly-growing student base. Outside of work, you'll find him in the mountains. He lives in San Francisco.
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Matt Hilbert is a technology writer at Redgate Software with 20 years’ experience working for lots of the world’s biggest tech companies–and many of the smallest. He has a particular fascination for emerging technologies and is on a continuing mission to decompile, untangle and explain techspeak to a wider audience, and excite people about the endless possibilities technology offers.
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Mark Hillyard is a Senior Advisor at Beyond20. Over 15+ years in IT he has worked on some of the largest system infrastructures supporting the internet.
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Matt Hines is part of the DevOps marketing team at CA Technologies and has worked as an IT marketing/communications professional for nearly two decades. Prior to entering the domain of solutions providers, Hines served as a reporter and editor for a wide range of industry-leading business technology publications including CNet, Dow Jones and The Washington Post Co. He can be reached at [email protected].
Tim Hinrichs
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Rob has been leading DevOps automation since filing patents for the first virtualized clouds in 2000. He founded RackN to help companies be both collaborative and autonomous with system automation. They focus on providing distributed IaC pipelines for cloud, edge and enterprise infrastructure. He is also a frequent community speaker and leader of the weekly the2030.cloud virtual hallway discussions.
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Martin Hirschvogel, Director of Product, joined tribe29 in 2018 and since then focuses on improving Checkmk, the Monitoring Machine for each aspect of modern IT environments. Martin heads the product marketing team and leads development around modern DevOps technologies such as Kubernetes. Before joining tribe29, he worked as Chief of Staff at TeamViewer and was a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.
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Michael Hiskey is an author, speaker and blogger having shared his thinking with publications and at conferences and trade shows over the past 20 years. He has been working with enterprise data and analytics software, as well as cybersecurity solutions at organizations around the world. Michael has lived and worked across three continents, responsible for strategy, marketing, business development and product expansions. He started his career in finance, and then spent 10 years with IBM, where he held roles in various disciplines. Since 2011, he worked primarily with high-growth firms, helping them to build-out product-market fit, development roadmaps and client advisory boards.
As the chief strategy officer for Data Connectors, Michael helps to fuel the collaboration between the 650,000-member cybersecurity community with solution providers and government agencies.
Born and raised in New York, Michael holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, and lives on Long Island with his wife and two daughters (one current and two future “women in technology”).
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Grant Ho is the Chief Marketing Officer of CloudBolt, a cloud management platform that helps IT provision, orchestrate, and manage all their cloud resources and give developers access to those resources through a self-service catalog.
Brent Hobson
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Robert Hodges is the CEO of Altinity, a software and services provider for ClickHouse. He's also a database geek who started on DBMS in 1983 and has worked with 20 database types spanning relational, NoSQL and analytic databases. He caught the Kubernetes bug in 2018 while working at VMware. Robert is an organizer of the San Francisco ClickHouse meetup and does regular presentations on database as well as Kubernetes topics.
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Pete Hodgson is an independent software delivery consultant and is a frequent contributor of content for Split Software on www.split.io. He recently co-authored a book with one of Split’s founders, Pato Echagüe, published by O’Reilly Media: “Feature Flag Best Practices, Advanced Tips for Product Delivery Teams.” Pete specializes in helping startup engineering teams discover how to deliver maintainable software at a rapid but sustainable pace, by leveling up their engineering practices and technical architecture.
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Gil Hoffer is co-founder and CTO at Salto. He started programming at the age of 6 (Basic on Commodore64) and has been around computers ever since. Gil loves to build stuff—products, systems, teams, and organizations. He's the ex-VP of Engineering at Oracle, VP R&D at Ravello Systems, IDF’s Unit 8200.
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Eltjo Hofstee is managing director at Leaseweb UK Ltd. He is responsible for the general management of the operation as well as ensuring all Leaseweb customers are utilizing solutions that build and maintain relationships while improving overall customer satisfaction by closely listening to their needs and understanding their goals and priorities.
Eltjo joined Leaseweb in 2011, starting as a senior account manager. Prior to this, he worked for a number of companies in the hosting and media industry, and as a CRM (strategy) consultant. Eltjo has a Master’s in Public Administration from Leiden University.
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Brian is Director of Education at Temporal.io. He is a people manager, educator, technical content expert, and software developer with a passion for helping others improve. He leads teams that develop exceptional and high-performing educational content, he builds open-source software and web applications, and he mentors aspiring developers.
So far Brian has written 11 technical books, and has written or edited over 100 articles and tutorials. He also specializes in developing educational tools and content strategies to help developers improve their skills.
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Scott Hollis
Scott Hollis has 20 years of experience in performance and availability management. He has held senior positions at various sized organizations ranging from privately held venture-backed technology start-ups to publicly traded Fortune 100 companies including IBM, BMC Software, NetIQ, Alert Logic, and Quest Software (now a Dell company). He is currently Director of Product Marketing for Zenoss, where he is responsible for all product marketing. His responsibilities over the years originated with R&D/Engineering roles and then transitioned half way through his career to Product Management and Product Marketing roles. He has a B.S. (cum laude) in Computer Science from Virginia Tech, and an M.B.A. from the University of Houston.
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Jonathan is the CTO of Decipher Technology Studios, creator of Grey Matter, a universal service mesh platform for enterprise intelligence, security and automation.
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Mirko Holzer, Founder and CEO of Brandmaker, is acknowledged as one of the most successful software managers in Germany. He is the strategic lead and driving force behind BrandMaker. Since founding Brandmaker in 2008, the company has become a leading provider of marketing process optimization, a fact validated in reports from leading industry analysts including Forrester and Gartner.
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Mush Honda is a results-oriented senior engineering leader with over 20 years experience in software delivery. He has a strong background in quality engineering, test automation and DevOps, and his project management background includes healthcare, voice-analytics, mobile and e-commerce industries. He currently serves as Chief Quality Architect for Katalon (www.katalon.com), an AI-augmented software quality management platform.
Ian Hood
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Ian is Chief Technologist, Global Service Provider Business at Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source technologies. Ian brings more than 30 years of engineering, business, and telecommunications industry leadership to Red Hat. Acting as a catalyst and trusted advisor, Ian brings together a wealth of industry and open source community insight to help customers flourish in the digital economy.
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Thomas Hooker is vice president of marketing at CollabNet. As the head of CollabNet's marketing team, he oversees demand generation, brand, customer marketing, public relations, analyst relations, product marketing, and corporate communications. A 20+ year veteran of high-tech Thomas has held Marketing, Product Management and Engineering positions at a variety of leading companies including BMC, Boole & Babbage, Tidal Software and Cisco.
Hart Hoover
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Hart Hoover started his career at Rackspace in 2007 as a Linux Systems Administrator, providing technical support for managed dedicated server environments. He moved to the cloud in 2009 to help design and implement the Managed Cloud Servers support model, leading Rackspace to be the #1 Managed Cloud company. Hart then created and delivered cloud application and architecture training for all of Rackspace Sales. He now serves customers as an Engineer with the DevOps Automation team at Rackspace while leading San Antonio DevOps, a local meetup group.
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Drew has led the automation delivery practice since joining Applause in 2015. His primary focus is to grow an international community of engineers to deliver world-class automation solutions to Applause’s global customer base and solve testing needs with automation. Prior to joining Applause, Drew worked at Amherst Holdings and Trustwave in development and QA.
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Marc Hornbeek, a.k.a., DevOps-the-Gray, is CEO and Principal Consultant at Engineering DevOps Consulting , author of the book "Engineering DevOps" , and Ambassador of The DevOps Institute.
Marc is a specialist / expert at applying a deep knowledge of engineering practices to DevOps, QA, DevSecOps and SRE transformations. Marc applies his unique, comprehensive Engineering Blueprints, Seven-Step DevOps Transformation Blueprint and Nine Pillars of DevOps / QE / DevSecOps / SRE discovery and assessment tools, together with targeted workshops to create actionable and comprehensive DevOps transformation roadmaps and strategic plans. Marc is an IEEE Outstanding Engineer, and 47-year Life Member of IEEE. He is a DevOps leadership advisor/mentor. He is the original author of the DevOps Engineering Foundation, Continuous Delivery Ecosystem Foundation (CDEF) and Continuous Test Foundation (CTF) certification courses that are offered by global training partners of the DevOps Institute. He is a Blogger on DevOps.com, CloudNativeNow.com, and SeurityBlvd.com. He is a freelance writer of DevOps content including eBooks, webinars, and white papers. . His education includes engineering and executive business degrees and nine certifications from the DevOps Institute.
Email Marc for DevOps / QE / DevSecOps / SRE consulting, training, writing and speaking engagements at [email protected], call him at +1 805 908 5789 or use this link to book a live 20 minute chat. https://calendly.com/engineeringdevops/devopschat
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Dotan Horovits lives at the intersection of technology, product and innovation. With over 20 years in the hi-tech industry as a software developer, a solutions architect and a product manager, he brings a wealth of knowledge in cloud and cloud-native solutions, DevOps practices and more. Horovits is an international speaker and thought leader, as well as an Ambassador of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Horovits is an avid advocate of open source and communities, an organizer of the CNCF Tel-Aviv meetup group and of Kubernetes Community Days and DevOpsDays local events, a podcaster at OpenObservability Talks, and a blogger, among others. Currently working as the principal developer advocate at Logz.io, Horovits evangelizes on Observability in IT systems using popular open source projects such as Prometheus, OpenSearch, Jaeger and OpenTelemetry.
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Jamie is charged with building and leading a cohesive engineering team that is transparent and can work collaboratively across the whole organization. Jamie’s previous experiences have given him the expertise that makes him uniquely qualified to lead the Allstacks engineering team.
Jamie shipped his first code at Icarus Studios as part of the Alpha Dev Team and then moved on to Qualcomm to build EDA software for the Snapdragon teams. As an Army Infantry Squad Leader, he successfully developed and led high-performing teams during both peacetime and combat operations. At companies like WebAssign, TransLoc, and Red Hat, he combined his leadership experience and engineering mindset to build teams and organizations that succeed through a culture of ownership, empathy, and innovation.
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Tina Howell has worked in many roles within IT for the past 20 years. She is very passionate about building platforms in a consistent manner with automation, whether on a cloud platform or on-premises. Tina has worked in consultancy for the past three years. She is currently at AND Digital, helping companies with their digital transformation through the use of DevOps tools and cloud platforms. She also builds cloud capability with DevOps skills within the North of England at AND. Previously she built her own global managed service offering using Rackspace which provided the ability to price quickly at the fuel pump.
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Juan Hoyos is a member of the Growth Board at CI&T. He has extensive experience accelerating market expansion and revenue growth initiatives for Fortune 500 companies. At CI&T, Juan helps clients deliver rapid digital solutions by combining agile methods, digital strategy, and cutting-edge technologies, including blockchain, IoT, and artificial intelligence. Juan specializes in building corporate cultures to support next-generation software development teams, processes, and solutions. He previously held executive-level roles at IBM, GE, and Philips.
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Tsai Chi Huang is a founding engineer at LOGIQ.ai. He has over 25 years of experience in comprehending software and hardware computing systems. He scrutinized a fleet of large-scale parallel systems, where he helped design and implement cutting-edge AI/ML algorithms for system data mining and anomaly detection. Tsai started his career in design development and analyzed hardware systems for companies in the public and private sectors. He believes that centralizing observability with a converged approach to data in infrastructure is necessary while accelerating digital transformation initiatives. Tsai holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Patrick Hubbard is a head geek and senior technical product marketing manager at SolarWinds. With 20 years of technical expertise and IT customer perspective, his networking management experience includes work with campus, data center, storage networks, VoIP and virtualization, with a focus on application and service delivery in both Fortune 500 companies and startups in high tech, transportation, financial services and telecom industries.
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Amy Hudson is global head of discovery and enablement at Cyara, a company at the forefront of where CX meets Agile and DevOps.
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Frank Huerta is the co-founder and CEO of Curtail, Inc., a provider of redundancy-based traffic analysis and continuous network security solutions. Curtail is changing how IT is implemented for service providers, enterprise organizations, government agencies and financial institutions that are developing and launching new software and services, particularly in DevOps environments. Huerta is a seasoned CEO and founder of three other companies including the security company, Recourse Technologies, which was acquired by Symantec.
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Mike Hughes is Principal Platform Evangelist at OutSystems. An accomplished "IT Renaissance Man", Mike Hughes has worked in diverse roles from developer to business analyst, architect to project manager, account manager to sales manager. All this knowledge culminates in a single-minded focus on helping clients become their own IT success stories using the OutSystems low-code platform.
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Romy Hughes, Director at Brightman Business Solutions
Romy is a director at Brightman, the business change specialist with expertise in Service Integration and Management (SIAM), business transformation and IT Service Management (ITSM and ITIL).
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Jervis Hui is head of the go-to-market team at Iterative. Hui is a tech operator, specializing in helping organizations scale through their first year of sales and beyond. With a decade of experience in product marketing across leading Silicon Valley enterprise tech startups and companies, he helps organizations with their go-to-market needs.
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Corey Hulen is CTO and co-founder of Mattermost, Inc. Founded in 2016, Mattermost’s open source platform powers over 800,000 workspaces worldwide with the support of over 4,000 contributors from across the developer community. The company serves over 800 customers, including European Parliament, Nasdaq, Samsung, SAP, United States Air Force, Wealthfront and is backed by world-class investors including Battery Ventures, Redpoint, S28 Capital, YC Continuity. To learn more, visit www.mattermost.com.
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George V. Hulme is an internationally recognized information security and business technology writer. For more than 20 years Hulme has written about business, technology, and IT security topics. From March 2000 through March 2005, as senior editor at InformationWeek magazine, he covered the IT security and homeland security beats. His work has appeared in CSOOnline, ComputerWorld, Network Computing, Government Computer News, Network World, San Francisco Examiner, TechWeb, VARBusiness, and dozens of other technology publications.
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Charlotte Humberston is Editor in Chief of DevOps Launchpad, which provides a wealth of courses and materials to help the ecosystem upskill in Salesforce DevOps. With a background in research and education, she is passionate about helping the community to improve their knowledge and understanding.
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Johnathan Hunt is VP of Security at GitLab. Johnathan has been in the infosec space for almost 20 years building security programs at four companies. He has worked at two Fortune 500's and four startups. He is a proud father of three boys who diligently work to keep him as exhausted as possible. He enjoys working out, traveling, reading, learning and family time.
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Alex Husar is chief technology officer at Onilab.com. For over 8 years he’s been working on Magento migration and development projects as well as building progressive web apps (PWAs). Alex is an expert in full-stack development who shares his expertise and in-depth knowledge on modern technologies and Computer Software Engineering.
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Kenn Hussey is vice president of engineering at Ambassador. With over two decades of experience, he is an experienced engineering leader with a passion for DevOps that partners with business and technical teams to drive visibility, alignment, accountability and execution of product delivery with a focus on continuous improvement. Kenn is focused on leading product teams in building cutting-edge tools that drastically improve the way cloud native developers work. His specialties include: DevOps, agile, program management, Puppet, Google Web Toolkit, Eclipse, modeling, Java and unified modeling language (UML). Prior to Ambassador he was director of program management at Puppet and VP of product development at Cloudsmith.
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Kibo Hutchinson is a technology analyst at Tatvasoft UK a software development company in London.
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Marie Huwe is VP of Developer Programs and Evangelism at DocuSign, where she leads developer programs for the number one eSignatures offering in the fast growing space of Digital Transaction Management. From simple electronic signatures to complex workflows, DocuSign is the fastest, most secure way to make every approval and agreement digital. Previously, Marie spent 18+ years at Microsoft, where she was most recently General Manager for Integrated Marketing for Microsoft Business Solutions. In her time at Microsoft, Marie also led worldwide partner marketing, was general manager for developer tools marketing, and did stints as a product manager for SQL Server and Visual C++. Marie began her technology career at Borland Software in Scotts Valley, CA. She is a proud graduate of Northwestern University.
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