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Gilad David Maayan is a technology writer who has worked with over 150 technology companies including SAP, Samsung NEXT, NetApp and Imperva, producing technical and thought leadership content that elucidates technical solutions for developers and IT leadership.
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Jevon MacDonald has spent the last decade building high technology businesses. He is the co-founder and CEO of Manifold, the cloud-native marketplace company. Before Manifold, he was co-founder and CEO of GoInstant, acquired in 2012, by Salesforce for $100 million. After the acquisition, he worked for Salesforce as GM, Service Cloud Mobile. Before that, he worked at Dachis Group, Firestoker.com and silverorange.com.
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Sean D. Mack is a visionary and innovative technology leader with a history of driving global business strategy and transformation. He has extensive background in all aspects of technology leadership including development, operations, quality assurance, and project management. Sean is the CEO for xOps, a DevOps consulting company.
Prior to xOps, Sean served as the Vice President of Operations & Applications at Pearson technology where he lead a global team of operational resources supporting digital education. Throughout his career he has held a variety of technology leadership ranging from Senior Director of Operations for enterprise scale marketing companies to CIO for startup streaming media companies.
Sean has his Bachelor’s degree in Computer and Information Sciences from the University of California and an Masters in Business Administration from Seattle University.
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Tim Mackey is a principal security strategist within the Synopsys CyRC (Cybersecurity Research Center). He joined Synopsys as part of the Black Duck Software acquisition where he worked to bring integrated security scanning technology to Red Hat OpenShift and the Kubernetes container orchestration platforms. As a security strategist, Tim applies his skills in distributed systems engineering, mission critical engineering, performance monitoring, large-scale data center operations, and global data privacy regulations to customer problems. He takes the lessons learned from those activities and delivers talks globally at well-known events such as RSA, Black Hat, Open Source Summit, KubeCon, OSCON, DevSecCon, DevOpsCon, Red Hat Summit, and Interop. Tim is also an O'Reilly Media published author and has been covered in publications around the globe including USA Today, Fortune, NBC News, CNN, Forbes, Dark Reading, TEISS, InfoSecurity Magazine, and The Straits Times.
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Mike Mackrory is a Global citizen who has settled down in the Pacific Northwest—for now. By day, he works as a lead engineer on a DevOps team, and by night, he writes and tinkers with other technology projects. When he's not tapping on the keys, he can be found hiking, fishing and exploring the urban and rural landscape with his kids. Always happy to help out another developer, he has a definite preference for helping those who bring gifts of gourmet donuts, craft beer and/or single-malt Scotch.
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20 year veteran leading a new technology consulting firm focused on the dev side of DevOps, Cloud, Security, and Application Development.
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Lori MacVittie is responsible for education and evangelism of application services available across F5’s entire product suite. Her role includes authorship of technical materials and participation in a number of community-based forums and industry standards organizations, among other efforts. She currently focuses on cloud computing, infrastructure, devops, data center architecture, and security-related topics. MacVittie has extensive development and technical architecture experience in both high-tech and enterprise organizations, in addition to network and systems administration expertise. Prior to joining F5, MacVittie was an award-winning technology editor at Network Computing Magazine.
She holds a B.S. in Information and Computing Science from the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay, and an M.S. in Computer Science from Nova Southeastern University, and is an O’Reilly author. She is Technical Editor and a member of the steering committee for CloudNOW, a non-profit consortium of the leading women in cloud computing.
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Jason Macy is the chief technical officer responsible for innovation and product strategy for global operations at Forum Systems. Jason has been a leading visionary for enterprise architecture design and successful deployment API identity and security technology. With hundreds of deployments worldwide, Jason’s unique ability to pragmatically solve complex, industry use cases and provide sustained engineering initiatives continues to forge the leadership role of Forum Systems product technology. Drawing from experience from virtually every industry sector, Jason has helped to evolve the product technology platform to be the global leader in FIPS 140-2 API security and identity.
Jason is also responsible for the architecture and lifecycle of technologies that comprise the API testing and API simulation product lines. These technologies are deployed in over 100,000 sites worldwide and comprise the industry-leading set of capabilities for client and server simulation for functional, performance and compliance testing of SOAP, XML, JSON and REST services.
Earlier in his career, Jason worked as the lead architect for Raytheon and was responsible for deployment, acceptance testing and successful commissioning of the Air Traffic Control system currently live and in use at Schipol Airport in Amsterdam, Holland.
Jason holds dual-degrees in both computer science and computer engineering.
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Hemant Madaan is a chief executive officer of a software development company, OTS Solutions, headquartered in Dallas TX. He possesses deep domain knowledge of various modern technologies such as Cloud Computing, DevOps, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, etc. He is curating top-notch technical content for developers and other domains in leadership.
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Mike Madden, General Manager, Mainframe, CA Technologies
Mike is general manager of the CA mainframe business unit and responsible for delivering a next-gen mainframe strategy. With 25 years of experience leading and growing organizations, his expertise spans strategy, operations, partnerships and development models. Mike has worked with Avid Technology, Monster and at J.D. Edwards as CTO. He has a BSc in mathematics and an MSc in electrical engineering.
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Jake Madders is director at Hyve Managed Hosting.
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Eric is a Principal Technical Consultant and Agile Practice Lead for AHEAD, focused on modernizing and increasing the efficiencies of development and operations teams. He has helped organizations with many large, complex transformation projects in Agile and DevOps, including team setup and coaching, and adopting automated continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI / CD) tools and concepts. In addition, Eric is an IT engineer with extensive experience implementing robust, secure, and highly available infrastructure solutions for both traditional enterprise and public / private cloud deployments.
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Yuvaraj Madheswaran is an IT cloud technical lead with over 17 years of experience in the financial services industry. He is responsible for the design, development, testing, and deployment of cloud-based applications. Yuvaraj has a passion for using emerging technology to help financial institutions improve their efficiency, profitability, and customer experience. Yuvaraj has a proven track record of success in the financial services industry. He has worked on various projects, including developing a new cloud-based lending platform, migrating a legacy system to the cloud, and implementing a new fraud detection system.
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Matias Madou is the CTO and co-founder of Secure Code Warrior. Matias is a researcher and developer with more than 15 years of hands-on software security experience. He has developed solutions for companies such as HP Fortify and his own company Sensei Security. Over his career, Matias has led multiple application security research projects which have led to commercial products and boasts over 10 patents under his belt. When he is away from his desk, Matias has served as an instructor for advanced application security training courses and regularly speaks at global conferences including RSA Conference, Black Hat, DefCon, BSIMM, OWASP AppSec and BruCon. Matias holds a Ph.D. in computer engineering from Ghent University, where he studied application security through program obfuscation to hide the inner workings of an application.
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Samantha Madrid is the Vice President of Security Business & Strategy at Juniper Networks. Samantha is an expert in the enterprise security market with nearly two decades of experience in roles spanning sales engineering, product management and marketing. She most recently served as the Vice President of Product Management and Marketing for E8 Security (recently acquired by VMware). Prior to that, she held leadership roles at Palo Alto Networks, Forcepoint, Inc. (formerly Websense) and Cisco IronPort Systems. She also spent many years in the field as a hands-on Systems Engineer, specializing in various security technologies. Over the span of her career, Samantha has built strong product organizations, introduced industry-leading products, created brands, and launched effective go-to-marketing programs that have led to rapid product adoption in the highly competitive security industry.
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Olivier Maes is the co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer at Baserow. Having served in numerous leadership roles at technology startups like Cloudstack (acquired by Citrix), Rancher Labs (acquired by Suse), Mendix (acquired by Siemens) and large IT companies like Cisco Systems, Olivier comes with experience in opensource software, no code application platforms and cloud infrastructure. He has built teams and driven high revenue growth in the last 20 years. Olivier is in charge of the Go To Market, Marketing, Sales and Customer Success at Baserow.
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Denis Magda has spent half of his career working on distributed systems, applications, and databases. His experience spans from the development of distributed database engines and high-performance applications to training and education on the topic of distributed and cloud computing. Presently, Denis runs the Developer Relations team at Yugabyte and serves as a PMC Member for Apache Ignite. He started his professional career at Sun Microsystems and Oracle, leading one of the Java development teams and working on technology evangelism efforts.
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Roger Magoulas is VP of Radar at O’Reilly. He works to support O’Reilly’s mission to spread the knowledge of innovators by using qualitative and quantitative methods to track technology adoption trends and communicate those trends both inside the company and to O’Reilly’s customers.
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Andrew Maguire is the analytics & machine learning lead at Netdata, where he focuses on building ML/AI-driven data products related to infrastructure monitoring. He is also a data science mentor and community manager at Springboard.com and a volunteer data scientist at DataKind.org. Over the course of his career, Andrew has worked in many different organizations in data science roles from data engineering to more hands-on data science and machine learning.
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Paul Mah once dabbled in C and Java at his day job. Now he writes stories by day and codes at night.
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Mike Maheu is GM and Co-Founder at Venue.sh
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Ohad Maislish is the CEO and co-founder of env0. Prior to env0, Ohad was the CEO and founder of Arno Software, a services company specializing in complicated cloud infrastructure projects, and Capester, a startup which empowered citizens in smart cities around the world. In addition to these roles, Ohad has served in different technical and management roles at Ravello Systems, eToro and VMware. He started his career as the youngest developer at Microsoft Israel at the age of 17, after starting his bachelor degree at the age of 14, in parallel to high school.
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Ariel Maislos is the CEO of Stratoscale. Ariel brings over twenty years of technology innovation and entrepreneurship to Stratoscale. After a ten-year career with the IDF, where he was responsible for managing a section of the Technology R&D Department, Ariel founded Passave, now the world leader in FTTH technology. Passave was established in 2001 and acquired in 2006 by PMC-Sierra (PMCS), where Ariel served as VP of strategy. In 2006 Ariel founded Pudding Media, an early pioneer in speech recognition technology, and Anobit, the leading provider of SSD technology acquired by Apple (AAPL) in 2012. At Apple, he served as a senior director in charge of flash storage, until he left the company to found Stratoscale. Ariel is a graduate of the prestigious IDF training program Talpiot, and holds a BSc from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in physics, mathematics and computer science (Cum Laude) and an MBA from Tel Aviv University. He holds numerous patents in networking, signal processing, storage and flash memory technologies.
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Rajashekara Maiya serves as Vice President and Global Head for Business Consulting at Infosys Finacle. He is a seasoned Banking Technology, Regulation and Compliance expert and has over 25 years’ experience in the industry.
He is responsible for Business Consulting at Finacle, which includes Pre-sale, Solution Architecture, Account Mining and Digital offerings. Previously he was responsible for charting the product strategy of Finacle, the flagship banking solution of Infosys. This role included responsibility for, defining the detailed product roadmap, Strategic acquisition & alliance partner identification & management, client engagement and representation of the company with external stakeholders such as analysts and media. Before taking over as the Head for Business Consulting, he was responsible for the Cloud Business for Finacle, which included charting strategies for Cloud Hosting and working with Cloud Infrastructure providers. Further, he was responsible for the Ecosystem collaboration and bringing out point applications in the banking space and Fintech engagements and was instrumental in launching the Blockchain Solution.
Maiya specializes in risk management, regulations and compliance and has been quoted on these and other topics in numerous publications. He is also visiting faculty to many universities, and speaks regularly at SIBOS, Asian Banker, MEED and other conferences. He is on the expert panel of the McKinsey Quarterly, a member of the XBRL Abstract Modelling Task Force (AMTF) Group.
Maiya is the co-author of book “SMACing the Bank” which was released in November 2017 and holds patents and pending patent granting in areas such as partner portals, delivery channels, offline banking and customer experience.
Prior to joining Infosys, Maiya was an audit manager with an accountancy practice. He holds a master’s degree in commerce, specializing in banking, costing and taxation, and is an Associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He has completed the Executive Certification of Graduate Business School at Stanford University-USA.
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Matt Makai is VP of Developer Relations & Experience at LaunchDarkly, the platform for high-velocity engineering teams to release, monitor, and optimize great software. At LaunchDarkly, Matt inspires and equips developers with LaunchDarkly to ship code to production faster and with fewer issues than ever before.
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I am Fawad Malik , a writer and blogger. I love to write articles related to technology and also the new trends that are ruling the world. As a blogger, I search related sites to post articles to, and I have written many quality articles about technology. I am owner of the blog: Nogentech.org.
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William Malik is VP of Infrastructure Strategies at Trend Micro. As a Founder of Gartner’s Information Security Strategies service in the mid-1990s, Malik has deep expertise in information security matters. He has spoken internationally on information security, identity management, privacy, business continuity, and enterprise architecture. During his IBM career he guided the mainframe operating system zOS (then MVS) through the process leading to a NIST/NSA B1-level security rating. He taught a graduate class on information security policy at Georgia Tech and authored the chapter “Information Security Policy in the US National Context” for the text Information Security: Policy, Processes, and Practices, Detmar Straub, et al., editors. M. E. Sharpe, 2008. Malik graduated from MIT with a degree in mathematics in 1973.
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Brad Mallard is CTO, digital technology services for Fujitsu EMEIA, responsible for technology strategy, multi-cloud strategy and portfolio. Fujitsu is the leading Japanese information and communication technology (ICT) company, offering a full range of technology products, solutions and services. Approximately 140,000 Fujitsu people support customers in more than 100 countries.
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Raj Mallempati is CEO & Co-founder of BlueFlag Security. Prior to launching BlueFlag, he most recently served as COO CIEM at Microsoft, through Microsoft’s acquisition of his prior company CloudKnox Security (acquired 2021). Raj previously held positions at Malwarebytes, MobileIron, Riverbed Technology and VMware where he brought VDI to market.
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Sven Malvik - Sopra Steria. Yesterday, we locked people into a room so they could together deploy, run updates or make changes to the infrastructure in a calculated order without making any mistakes. That doesn’t need to be the way we work anymore. Today, we have plenty of tools−many of us call them DevOps tools−that help us to make those tasks going faster, easier and with less problems. As a DevOps Engineer I’m most of my time working on simplification using these tools. My job is it to involve stakeholders from business, development, test, and operations to align on common goals and make these goals happen.
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Andrew Manby is the Vice President of Product Management for HCL Software's Digital Solutions business unit. Andrew is an experienced product and marketing leader, having had senior roles in analytics, data management, and data integration markets for Vmark Software, Informix, Ascential Software, and IBM.
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Naveen Manchem is a technical lead at HCL Technologies Ltd, working on various DevOps technologies such as Git, maven, Jenkins, Sonarqube, Nexus, Ansible, Docker and cloud on Azure, Azure Devops/VSTS.
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Michele Mancioppi is the observability product manager at Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu. His primary work focuses on revamping Juju-based Observability.
Michele is also an Instana and SAP Cloud Platform alumnus.
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K.Maneesha is an SEO Developer At Mindmajix.com. She holds a masters degree in Marketing from Alliance University, Bangalore. Maneesha is a dog-lover and enjoys meeting friends and traveling with them on trips.
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Que Mangus is the Product Marketing Manager for Host Access & Connectivity at Micro Focus. He has over 12 years of experience in software solutions and received the ITIL version 3 Foundation Certification. While not working, Que resides in Utah where he is an avid sports fan and car enthusiast.
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Mani is an IT professional contributing to the goals of IT industry to execute and grow. Mani is passionate about developing business acumen in new and emerging trends across the industry. She has a 20-year background in technology, strategic planning, program-management for multimillion dollar development projects, systems integration and business development.
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Andi Mann, Chief Technology Advocate at Splunk, is an accomplished digital executive with global expertise as a strategist, technologist, innovator, marketer, and communicator. With over 30 years' experience, Andi is a sought-after advisor, commentator, and speaker. Andi has co-authored two books, blogs at 'Andi Mann – Übergeek', and tweets as @AndiMann.
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Based in London, Nuria has been working with Distributed for almost 2 years. She began as a project manager and one of the company’s first employees and is now its QA Technical Lead. Nuria studied chemical engineering at university before going on to work in wastewater and then diesel manufacturing. She then transitioned into a software-based role with systems and diagnostics for diesel engines and vehicles, which led her into her now more core software-focused role at Distributed.
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Neil Manvar is a solutions engineering manager at Sentry, an application monitoring and error tracking software company that helps software teams discover, triage and prioritize errors in real time.
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Etay Maor is senior director of security strategy for Cato Networks. Previously, he was chief security officer for IntSights and held senior security positions at IBM and RSA Security's Cyber Threats Research Labs. An adjunct professor at Boston College, he holds a BA in computer science and a MA in counter-terrorism and cyber terrorism from Reichman University (IDC Herzliya), Tel Aviv.
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Meir serves as the chief architect at SparkBeyond since the company's inception. Throughout Meir's career, he worked at the intersection of engineering and data science, holding senior software engineering positions at the Israeli Air Force and NLP-focused startup companies. Meir is an open source activist, a Scala enthusiast and a data junkie with over a decade of experience leading complex, data-intensive projects. At SparkBeyond, Meir helps design and build the next generation tools for data science, working with Fortune 100 companies to solve their toughest problems by leveraging humanity’s collective intelligence.
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Robert Mardisalu is the co-founder and editor of TheBestVPN.com, a computer security professional, privacy specialist and cybersecurity writer. He has authored many insightful blogs that help readers to think beyond the surface.
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Miten Marfatia is the founder and CEO of EvolveWare, a global leader in automating the documentation, analysis and modernization of software applications. An early player in the application modernization industry, Miten has helped revolutionize the approach to modernization by incorporating automation and ML into a unique platform that is successfully guiding large organizations such as the State of New York, U.S. Dept. of Defense, and Deloitte Consulting clients through complex digital transformation initiatives. Prior to EvolveWare, Miten was a founder of Perisol Technology, which provided state of the art storage solutions to corporations and government agencies, and prior to that, founded Silicon Electronics, a distributor of cutting-edge products to India’s nascent computer manufacturing industry.
Miten holds a M.S. in electrical engineering and a M.B.A in finance, investment & banking from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He earned his B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Bombay in India.
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Fabricio Mariani is a Cloud Engineer at Reliam, a managed services provider for public cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. His greatest professional passion is ensuring people are using the latest cloud best practices to fuel the success of their businesses. With a Bachelor of Technology in System Analysis and Development (and AWS certifications), Fabricio designs, develops, and implements solutions for AWS with high availability in mind, as well as deploying code and optimizing existing AWS environments. He lives in Los Angeles.
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Kavitha Mariappan is Split’s Chief Marketing Officer. She brings over 20 years of experience in high technology marketing to Split, with domain expertise ranging from big data analytics, enterprise software, cloud storage, to application performance and delivery. Kavitha previously served as vice president of marketing at Databricks (the creators of the Apache Spark project), where she was responsible for developing the company’s brand and go-to-market strategy from the ground up, executing a demand generation program that grew customer count from zero to nearly 500 in two years.
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Topher is the CTO and Co-Founder of JumpCloud. Previously he spent five years at Symplified as its lead engineer holding a variety of titles including Architect and Development Manager. The bulk of his time was spent wrestling with the concepts and mechanisms of provable identity – SAML, IWA/Kerberos, PKI, OAuth, OpenID, and multi-factor authentication to name a few. He also had ample opportunity to get his hands dirty with protocol level internet communication and to use his skills in the area of cloud security. Prior to Symplified, Topher was a senior engineer at Ping Identity where he was first baptized into the world of Internet security, with particular emphasis on Identity and Access Management. He has also had stints at Spatial, MatchLogic, and Lucent Technologies. Topher holds Bachelor and Master of Science degrees from the Colorado School of Mines in the area of Math with emphasis in Computer Science. He also spent several subsequent years at that university as a part-time professor for both computer science and pure math courses.
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Lewis Marshall is a cloud-native delivery advocate at Appvia. Over his 28 years of experience in development and operations, he has helped transform software delivery systems at Pfizer, London Stock exchange, the Home Office and many others. Working through x86 Assembly all the way to Golang and Kubernetes, Lewis is now helping organisations with their digital transformation efforts. Passionate about OneWheel and all things space.
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Ellie Martin is co-founder of Startup Change group. Her works have been featured on Yahoo! , Wisebread, AOL, among others. She currently splits her time between her home office in New York and Israel. You may connect with her on Twitter
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:**Gilbert Martin is a VP of Customer Experience & Solution Engineering at Opsera (www.opsera.io). In his current position, Gilbert is responsible for the company’s growth and sustainability; he oversees Customer Experience and Solution Architecture, focusing on maintaining and providing the best customer experience and the management of customer software delivery to accelerate their speed to market. Before joining Opsera, Gilbert had a long tenure in operations, successfully delivering many large, secure, robust public and cloud architectures and deployments.
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Jeffrey Martin is director of product at WhiteSource.
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Jesse Martin is a technical educator helping developers across the whole stack understand the new and emerging technologies that help them ship better products faster. His current interests revolve around databases, data modeling, and embedded devices. Jesse is a husband, father, US Expat and likes to geek out about quantified self, functional fitness, and all things grilled, distilled, or brewed.
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Rich Martin is senior technical marketing engineer at Itential. Previously, Rich worked with a number of networking vendors as a both a pre-sales systems engineer and systems engineering manager. Rich has a passion for automation in the networking domain, and at Itential he helps networking teams to move forward successfully on their various network automation journeys.
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Gabriel Martinez is the
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:**Guillermo Martinez stands at the forefront of technology modernization and DevOps, having orchestrated transformations across diverse sectors including insurance, financial services, retail, e-commerce, and telecommunications. His strategic acumen and technical prowess have bolstered the digital agility of eminent clients like Allianz, Shell, PVH, Nationale Nederlanden, and ABN Amro.
As the founder of Tektique, Guillermo drives innovation by marrying modern engineering practices with process enhancement and organizational redesign, steering companies towards a future of seamless, efficient, and sustainable technology operations.
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Alex Martins is the VP, Strategy at Katalon (www.katalon.com), a comprehensive, all-in-one software quality management platform. He has over 20 years of experience in DevOps, working with companies such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Broadcom. With an extensive background in enabling AI-augmented testing for Fortune 500 companies, Martins has consistently advocated for software quality to deliver a differentiated customer experience and strong business performance. Martins holds an Executive MBA from the University of Miami Herbert Business School.
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Eric Marts is a financial services marketing manager at Red Hat. Prior to joining Red Hat, Eric shaped solutions within Retail Banking and Wealth Management HSBC. He has more than 20 years of professional experience across a range of technical leadership roles and industries, including Oracle and Accenture Interactive. He is particularly interested in unlocking new market opportunities within financial services with emerging technologies.
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Rob Mason has more than 20 years of operational, management, and software development experience across many different companies, languages, platforms, and technologies. A meticulous builder and obsessive tester with an eye for talented engineers, Rob’s teams produce innovative, robust software. And, through his own example of hard work and ingenuity, he inspires his teams to reach new heights.
Most recently, Rob was Founder and Executive Vice President of Engineering at Nasuni, where he took the company from initial product concept to more than 10 Petabytes of managed storage consisting of billions of files in a global file system spanning more than 50 different countries and generating more than $10M in recurring revenue.
Prior to Nasuni, Rob oversaw all development and quality assurance as the VP of Engineering at Archivas from 2004 to its acquisition by Hitachi. After the acquisition, he continued in his role as VP of HCAP Engineering, managing the integration of his team with Hitachi’s and supporting the broad rollout of HCAP.
Rob holds upwards of 30 patents including several in the area of test automation. He has a Bachelor of Science degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Master of Business Administration degree with honors from Rutgers University. Rob lives on a Horse Farm in Massachusetts with his wife.
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George Mathew joins Insight Partners as a Managing Director focused on venture stage investments in AI, ML, Analytics, and Data companies as they are establishing product/market Fit.
He brings 20+ years of experience developing high-growth technology startups including most recently being CEO of Kespry. Prior to Kespry, George was President & COO of Alteryx where he scaled the company through its IPO (AYX). Previously he held senior leadership positions at SAP and Salesforce.com. He has driven company strategy, led product management and development, and built sales and marketing teams.
George holds a Bachelor of Science in Neurobiology from Cornell University and a Masters in Business Administration from Duke University, where he was a Fuqua Scholar.
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Jacob Mathews is a tech consultant at Purple Olive Labs, a mobile app development company in Dallas. He loves tech, books, and Chess. A vivid reader of development models and their existing drawbacks. Try to solve the problems of startups to help them sail through the murky waters.
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John Mathon was a founder of TIBCO Software. He has 10 patents in areas of messaging, security, content management and automation. He has started a number of companies in the enterprise software space. His latest company, Agile Stacks, is empowering organizations to accelerate their move up the cloud development maturity curve.
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Manish Mathuria is founder and Chief Technical Officer at Infostretch, a digital-first professional services firm. An experienced technology consulting and business leader, he identifies and evaluates new technologies that can be practically applied to Infostretch’s customers. He also consults directly with leading customers.
Manish is trusted for his advanced knowledge of technology systems management and his critical thinking and analysis. He has served as a senior technology consultant across Quality Engineering, software development, Cloud, SaaS and mobility for Fortune 500 firms and Silicon Valley startups. He speaks regularly at leading quality and software engineering conferences worldwide.
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As a computer scientist turned marketer, Janet Matsuda has connected innovators with technology in brain mapping, automotive design and virtual surgery. Her unique background has propelled her to the secure DevOps movement where the transition to cloud and containers creates a unique opportunity to transform cybersecurity and reduce risk.
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Kate Matsudaira, the founder of popforms, is a top technology leader and CTO. Her technical background is in creating and operating large-scale Web applications, and her focus has primarily rested on SaaS applications and big data. She has extensive experience building and managing high-performance teams, and is a fan of agile development practices and the Lean Startup movement.
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When Eric's parents told him that if he graduated with "all A's" he could have any gift he wanted, naturally he requested a dirt bike. When the big day came, you can imagine his disappointment when he received a computer instead. That childhood disappointment kicked off decades of exploration, tinkering, and what would become a passionate pursuit of
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Eric spent the first part of his career as an engineer focused mostly on backend servers and APIs. Eventually he got tired of 18+hr deployments and thought, "There's got to be a better way!?" That question led him to adopting DevOps practices and he soon found himself working for the Seattle-based DevOps startup, Chef Software. In 2018 Eric joined Google and was a Customer Engineer working with both digital native startups and the largest enterprises Southern California had to offer. Eric then joined the Global Solutions team and was responsible for Google's DevOps transformation program dubbed CAMP which utilizes DORA to help companies accelerate their software delivery capabilities. Recently, Eric has relocated to Europe to lead the Application Modernization Solutions and Technology practice and is still an active participant in the DORA Core Team.
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Ayesha Mazumdar works across multiple teams at Optimizely as a Senior UX Engineer, where she collaborates with engineers and designers on Optimizely’s design system, component library, and application frontend. Previously, she worked on the Lightning Design System at Salesforce where she focused on building accessible components for the engineering organization. Outside of work, she mentors students at the Holberton School to help empower people from all backgrounds to succeed in the tech industry.
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Mr. Mazyar is responsible for implementing the Samanage service vision, including all service and technology strategy and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. A veteran of multiple technology development platforms, Michael has deep experience and knowledge of Internet, SaaS and web technologies and building robust, highly scalable websites and web platforms with a focus on distributed computing. Before joining Samanage, Michael was a development manager at BitWine, and software engineer at vizrt. Michael received his B.Sc in Electrical Engineering from the Israel Institute of Technology.
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Walter McAdams is the Chief Engineer, Digital Solutions, at SQA Group — a technology and advisory services firm helping companies pinpoint and solve the most critical use cases around accelerated software engineering, actionable data, and tech-powered innovation. From working for the Department of Defense as an intelligence officer to leading full-scale development and test automation frameworks at large enterprises like Microsoft and Boeing, Walter brings more than three decades of hyper-specialization across disciplines such as software and quality engineering, robotics, embedded systems and emerging technology.
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Chris McAllister earned his degree in Computer Science from Kennesaw State University in Georgia. Right after graduating from college, he landed several roles in Application Development and Programming. During his free time, he likes to travel, write articles to share his expertise and do boxing.
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Dave McAllister is head of community and developer evangelist at Scalyr, a log management and observability company that works with customers such as OkCupid, Giphy and Zalando. He enjoys solving customer problems with technology and tracks emerging tech which he has successfully done this for startups and Fortune 500 companies. Prior to Scalyr, Dave held positions at Red Hat, Adobe, Solace and Stanford University.
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Tommy McClung is co-founder and CEO at ReleaseHub. Previously, he was CTO at TrueCar and co-founded CarWoo! (YCombinator class of summer 2009) which was acquired by TrueCar. Tommy also founded IMSafer and was a software engineer at RLX Technologies.
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Jeff McCollum is currently the director of product development and value stream lead at Tasktop. Previously, he served as the director of content integrity and insights at Bazaarvoice, a user-generated content solutions provider, where he led teams responsible for content moderation, analytics, data science, authenticity and fraud. He holds degrees in philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis and the University of California, Davis.
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Jack McCurdy is a DevOps Advocate for Gearset, the leading release management platform for Salesforce. Drawing on his experience as an Enterprise AE at Gearset, Jack now shares his knowledge of Salesforce DevOps with the Salesforce community around the world. He loves all things technical — including helping companies build DevOps teams and practices that are crucial for effective Salesforce releases —but his real passion is fostering the culture changes necessary to implement DevOps best practices. He is also the host of the DevOps Diaries podcast.
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Sean McDermott is Founder and CEO of Windward Consulting and RedMonocle. He also acts as Lead Researcher at Helix Market Research. Sean previously acted as Founder and CEO of RealOps, Inc., the pioneer in enterprise management Run Book Automation solutions which was acquired by BMC. Sean’s curiosity for advancing technology began at his first job as a network engineer/architect installing and managing the first private internet for the U.S. Department of Justice. At a time when the internet was just taking off, Sean was at the forefront and has continued to be on cutting edge of technology with the development of Windward and RedMonocle. Sean is an advocate for business leadership strategies and shares how other entrepreneurs can align passion and action on his blog, Wheels up World.
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Neil McEvoy is the Founder of the Cloud Experts Network, a global professional community of the world's leading subject matter authorities on Cloud-powered Digital Transformation.
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As the Vice President of Engineering and Operations with more than 16 years of software and technology experience, Chris McFadden is responsible for development and technical operations of the SparkPost cloud email delivery service, as well as development of the Momentum on-premises MTA. The Engineering team collaborates with Product, Marketing, Support, and Sales to deliver the most advanced email infrastructure available by having a deep understanding of email and customer needs, continuous delivery processes, disciplined engineering and DevOps practices, and an innovative mindset with a focus on excellent customer experiences.
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Dan McFall is president and chief executive officer of Mobile Labs, the leading supplier of in-house mobile device testing labs to enterprise mobile development teams. The company's patented GigaFox controls the chaos of testing multiple apps across multiple platforms, operating systems and device types. Whether installed on-premises or in a hosted environment, teams have access to all devices for testing without experiencing latency and lag time regardless of geographical location.
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Casey McGuigan holds a BA in mathematics and an MBA, bringing a data analytics and business perspective to Infragistics. Casey is the product manager for the Reveal embedded analytics product and was instrumental in product development, market analysis and the product's go-to-market strategy.
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Jason is responsible for leading Logicworks’ technical strategy including our software and DevOps product roadmap. In this capacity, he works directly with Logicworks’ senior engineers and developers, technology vendors and partners, and R&D team to ensure that Logicworks service offerings meet and exceed the performance, compliance, automation, and security requirements of our clients. Prior to joining Logicworks in 2005, Jason worked in technology in the Unix support trenches at Panix (Public Access Networks). Jason graduated Bard College with a Bachelor of Art and holds all five AWS associate and professional-level certifications.
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Hugh McKee is a developer advocate at Lightbend. He has had a long career building applications that evolved slowly, inefficiently utilized their infrastructure, and were brittle and prone to failure. Hugh has learned from his past mistakes, battle scars, and a few wins.
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Peter McKee is the Head of Developer Relations and Community at Sonar, where he leads a team of developer advocates in reaching and educating developers across their preferred forums to help them write better, more secure code. Peter is also the maintainer of the open source project Ronin.js and for over 25 years has built his career developing full-stack applications as well as leading and mentoring developer teams. Prior to Sonar, Peter was the Director of Developer Advocacy at JFrog and before that, he held multiple roles at Docker including Head of Developer Relations. When not building things with software, he spends his time with his wife and seven kids in beautiful Austin, TX.
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Ensono’s Gordon McKenna, CTO, Microsoft Cloud Services, is one of the world's leading experts in Microsoft Cloud and Management Technologies, with over 22 years’ experience in Microsoft data center and cloud-based technology.
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Stephen McKenna is an aspiring start-up looking to build his expertise as a business-critical writer. Focusing on business min-maxing and employee management.
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As SVP and General Manager of Intelligent Z Optimization and Transformation at BMC Software, John McKenny leads the R&D, Product Management and Solutions Marketing teams to innovate the mainframe to meet the needs of today’s evolving digital economy. John has over 25 years of management experience at BMC alone and, prior to joining, he led various IT management teams and strategies for 15 years in the transportation and insurance industries.
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Tyler McMullen is CTO at Fastly, a global edge cloud platform, where he is responsible for evolving the system architecture and the company’s technology vision. He leads a team of experienced technology innovators focused on internet scale, and working on future-facing, ambitious projects and standards. As part of the founding team at Fastly, Tyler built the first versions of Fastly’s Instant Purging system, API and Real-time Analytics. Prior to joining Fastly, Tyler worked on large scale web applications, text analysis and performance. He can be found debating about edge computing, networking and distributed systems all over the world.
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As DevOps Evangelist, Alexandra McPeak runs and manages the blog for SmartBear, the innovator behind the industry’s highest impact tools to build, test and monitor great software. She delivers content that is valuable to users, growing traffic consistently week over week. Alexandra leads a portfolio of content that not only increases site visitors, but makes prospects more aware of the company’s products.
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Sasha is a software engineer and entrepreneur with over 20 years experience, currently a co-founder at Diversion.dev. He's been around long enough to see the evolution of programming languages and developer tools. He's passionate about building the next generation of tools for developer productivity and collaboration, leveraging current technologies - to create a world in which software is developed faster and with ease.
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Julien Mege is a developer at Bonitasoft, where he works on improving the Bonita platform as well as on the methodologies to deliver these improvements. Following his Masters in Computer Science, specialized in Software Engineering at the University of Franche-Comté, he has worked in several different fields, from the analysis of network data at Universiti Sains Malaysia, to the development of real-time monitoring interface in the energy field. For the past 10 years he has focused his energy and passion on open source at Bonitasoft.
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Samir is the director of products for CloudHealth by VMware, where he leads product definition, verification and the manufacturing process. He has twenty years of experience leading IT engineering efforts.
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Maxim Melamedov is the co-founder and CEO of Zesty, the first AI-driven cloud management technology that auto-scales cloud resources to fit real-time application needs. With over 13 years of experience in the tech industry, including a prior career in homeland security, Maxim thrives on solving complex problems and disrupting previously established norms.
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Dwayne Melancon, CISA is Tripwire's Chief Technology Officer, where he is responsible for driving and evangelizing the company's global overall product strategy. His current passion is helping organizations connect security's value to the business and establishing metrics and methods to enable objective decisions and informed action in information security. Dwayne has a history of research and curiosity about IT practices and security, and was a contributor to both the Visible Ops Handbook and the Visible Ops Security Handbook. Dwayne blogs for Tripwire at http://bit.ly/TWCTOblog and personally at http://genuinecuriosity.com
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Continuous Delivery Solution Account Director for CA Technologies.
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Ajay Menon is a Senior Hardware Engineer - Product Engineering Services at Happiest Minds Technologies with hands on experience in all phases of product development cycle. He has extensive experience in architecting low power IOT designs, Compute intensive hardware designs and Analog designs. He has designed, developed and released-to-market several products such as COM Modules, Data Acquisition systems, Gateways, IOT devices, SBCs, Servers, Telecom devices and many more. He holds a bachelor's degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering and a master’s degree in Digital Design & Embedded Systems.
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Ram Menon brings over two decades of experience in enterprise software. Previously Ram was the President of Social Computing at TIBCO. He founded the division and built the business from scratch into a leader in Social Business Software with 9 Million paid users in just two years.
Earlier in his stint at TIBCO, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for eight years, leading the company’s marketing and product strategy efforts to support growth from $200M -$1B. Prior to joining TIBCO, Ram was with Accenture, a global consulting firm, where he specialized in supply chain and e-commerce strategy consulting with Global 500 companies.
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Haymo Meran is head of product at Usersnap. He previously co-founded two tech companies that got acquired.
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Kit Merker heads business development for Nobl9, driving early stage growth in service reliability for modern cloud native developers. In his 20+ years of experience in large-scale software development projects, he has worked in a variety of roles from coding to engineering manager, evangelism to product management. Prior to Nobl9, Kit helped grow JFrog into a billion-dollar company and worked as a product manager for Kubernetes and related container initiatives for Google Cloud. Before that he spent 10 years at Microsoft, where he worked on several products - Windows, Azure, Office 365, & Bing.
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Marcus Merrell is a prominent thought leader in testing quality, software development, and technology strategies. As the Principal Test Strategist at Sauce Labs, he leverages over 20 years of experience in test architecture to create robust, customer-focused solutions in test automation, release management, and the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC).
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Eric is the CTO of Afiniate, Inc., a veteran entrepreneur, author and public speaker. He is expert in the architecture, development and deployment of large-scale distributed systems on heterogeneous hardware, and the languages and platforms required to support them. His experience spans from vertical scaled manufacturing and billing systems on IBM Mainframe and midrange hardware for companies like Sysco, Inc, to distributed build systems and massive fleet deployment tools on large fleets of beige boxes for companies like Amazon.com, and high-frequency trading and financial exchange systems on custom hardware for leading private brokerages. Eric is also co-author of the popular book “Erlang and OTP in Action”.
John Mertic
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Chris Merz is a Principal Technologist with 25 years of Web and global systems design experience. For the past decade he has viewed the technical landscape through the lens of DevOps and strives to promote advanced organizational transformation at all levels, from Development and Operations to the C-level. At NetApp, his focus is the promotion of DevOps and Cloud Native technologies, and translating that value into business outcomes for all audiences.
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Dave Messinger is the Chief Technologist at Topcoder, where he is in charge of all crowdsourcing products and technology. He is responsible for the platform and overall community development methodology.
Prior to his current role, Dave spent seven years as Topcoder’s Chief Architect, during which time he oversaw the platform, community growth, and component-based methodology.
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Sivan leads DataRobot’s MLOps & Governance Business, which provides a central solution for managing all machine learning applications for any machine learning model upon any production deployment. Sivan joined DataRobot via the acquisition of ParallelM, where he served as CEO after spending two decades as an enterprise software business leader in many capacities at companies such as Kenshoo, Inc. and Mercury Interactive.
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The mastermind behind some of Camunda’s biggest technological developments, Chief Technology Officer Daniel Meyer joined the company in 2010, serving first as a developer and consultant – coaching companies in BPM technology. He holds an MSc in Computer Science and is responsible for end-to-end development and maintenance of Camunda’s industry-leading products, as well as a sought-after speaker at technology events.
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Steve Mezak is founder and CEO of Accelerance, a leader in global software development outsourcing, as well as the author of “Software Without Borders,” co-author of “Outsource or Else: How a VP of Software Saved His Company” and a CIO columnist.
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Mariusz is a Community Manager at Spacelift, a flexible management platform for infrastructure-as-code. He is passionate about automation, DevOps, and open source solutions. In his free time, he enjoys car detailing, swimming and nonfiction books.
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Andrey Mihailenko is the co-founder and CEO of Targetprocess, provider of a visual management platform for Agile teams and organizations. He has 20 years’ experience in software sales and marketing, Agile, Scrum, software business and project management, and is respected as a well-rounded source on topics affecting enterprise IT strategies.
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Andrei Mikhailau is SW Testing Director at ScienceSoft headquartered in McKinney, Texas. Andrei has 15+ years of experience in a range of SDLC processes, from testing and BA to and project management and QA. Throughout his career Andrei has successfully worked under various methodologies: RUP, MSF, XP, Agile and CMMI III/IV levels. He also has a proven expertise in developing a quality testing process under these methodologies.
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Currently IT Operations / DBA at Luminex Corporation running Oracle Enterprise Applications through a DevOps lifecycle. Writing is learning, writing is sharing. If you like what you read, feel free to follow me on twitter! @byron_miller
Daniel Miller
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Daniel Miller is the Director of Product Marketing at Ericom Software. He has more than 15 years of industry experience in corporate and product marketing, business development, and product management, supporting an array of technology services, hardware and software solutions—with a strong focus on cybersecurity in recent years. He frequently shares his insights on cybersecurity at industry conferences and podcasts, and regularly contributes articles to enterprise security publications. Daniel holds graduate degrees in Behavioral Sciences and Business Administration.
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Grant Miller is CEO and co-founder of Replicated, which modernizes on-prem software for the cloud-native era. Replicated provides commercial and open source tools to streamline the distribution and management of 3rd-party applications in complex enterprise environments. For additional insight into the build vs. buy discussion, please visit: https://info.replicated.com/build-vs-buy-webinar-playback
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Kendall MIller handles partnerships and public facing events on behalf of Axiom for the future and glory of the new world of logging.
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Adam Mills is the Sr Manager of the Development Tools and Automation Team at Autotrader. This team’s role is to improve application stability and quality while decreasing time to market. These goals are achieved through the use of service virtualization, continuous integration, continuous deployment, and test automation.
Prior to working at AutoTrader.com, Adam worked as a Java developer at UPS Supply Chain Solutions as well as a developer at Home Depot. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Auburn University.
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Eric Minick is Product Management Lead for Continuous Delivery, IBM. He is internationally recognized as a leading authority on continuous delivery and DevOps. With a background developing delivery tools, he has helped dozens of Global 2000 companies implement modern delivery approaches. Today, he sets the strategy for the IBM UrbanCode product line.
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Srini has over 20+ years of Product and Business Development Experience, with 10+ years in Leadership roles spanning Enterprise Software, Mobile and Telecom industries. Srini holds three US patents and has global experience working in U.S, Europe & Asia markets building strategic partnerships and rolling out products through System Integrators, Carriers, and Device Manufacturers. His current role involves driving AIOps product messaging, GTM strategy development and execution for the Europe and APAC markets.
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Nitzan Miron is VP, Product Management, Application Security Services at Barracuda and manages the development of Barracuda’s application security and vulnerability management solutions. Nitzan started his career in security 15 years ago in the Israeli military, architecting and developing products that protect strategic military data from interception by enemy forces. He then went on to found 6Scan, where he developed state-of-the-art technology to automatically mitigate web application vulnerabilities on micro-business and small-business websites. Nitzan is a highly experienced entrepreneur and developer with a wide breadth of expertise spanning over 15 years with a full spectrum of skills, from NAND gates on FPGA chips and CPU bringup routines in Assembly up to complex web applications and algorithms written in high-level Python.
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Matan Mishan is an engineer turned PM turned founder. He is the co-founder and CEO at Livecyle, an early-stage startup that specializes in collaboration on top of live environments. Matan has over a decade of experience in leading R&D organizations and leading products from inception to launch to revenues in both corporates and startups. He also enjoys consulting pre-PMF startups on a regular basis. With a deep passion to solve R&D related problems, both technical and interpersonal.
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Nilabh Mishra is a Senior Value Engineer at Catchpoint with more than seven years of experience working in the digital experience monitoring industry. He is efficient at building, implementing and tracking monitoring strategies for Fortune 500+ companies. Nilabh loves working on web-related technologies and is passionate about all things “customer success”.
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Sid Misra is Senior Director of Product Marketing at Pegasystems. Sid leads the strategy, positioning, and go to market for Pega’s industry-leading application development platform for digital transformation. Sid has more than 15 years of leadership experience in the enterprise software space, acquired by driving marketing and product initiatives across start-ups, mid-size, and Fortune 500 organizations. He holds an MBA from Babson College and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI).
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As the Chief Technology Officer of Infostretch, Manish Mistry helps customers navigate their digital journey using innovative approaches to develop digital engineering solutions. With over 25 years of experience in software development for various enterprises, his extensive background in delivering and managing all phases of digital engineering enables him to create solutions that help customers launch products and services in the areas of Mobility, IoT, Cloud engineering and AI/ML. Manish Mistry has worked at startups to Fortune 500 firms in the areas of product management, software architecture and leading highly scalable engineering teams.
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I am Pratik Mistry, a rare mix of technologist and Executive Vice President in sales at Radixweb. My passion lies in helping companies to grow revenues by delivering top-notch custom software development solutions and building value-based partnerships.
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Manav Mital is the co-founder and CEO of Cyral, the first security solution built for the modern data cloud and the DevOps-first world. Manav was previously the founder and CEO of Instart, a startup in the CDN space focused on improving web and mobile application performance, consumer experience, and security. Instart served notable enterprise customers and was acquired by Akamai. Before founding Instart, Manav worked with Aster Data, where he managed the design and development of major components of their flagship product, including the core database engine and all query processing. Aster Data, a pioneer in the big data market, was acquired by Teradata Corp for $263M. Aster is also where Manav met his Cyral co-founder, Dr. Srinivas Vadlamani. Before Aster, Manav was part of Yahoo's Web Search team, where he helped in designing and building systems to improve search rankings by better web page classification. Manav has a MS in Computer Science from UCLA and a BS in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
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Lorna Mitchell is Head of Developer Relations at Aiven, a next-generation managed cloud services company offering the best open source data technologies to empower businesses around the world and make developers’ lives better. With a strong software engineering background, Mitchell is a developer experience and open source specialist who aims to enable and educate developers everywhere. At Aiven, she leads developer relations efforts and works with her team to improve developer experience with the Aiven platform. Mitchell has previously held developer advocate positions at Nexmo and IBM. A published author, she is an experienced and engaging technical conference speaker and well-written proponent of developer issues and open source.
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Akhil Mittal is a cybersecurity leader with over two decades of experience in application security, cloud security, and DevSecOps. As a Gartner Cybersecurity Ambassador, he is at the forefront of industry trends and insights, helping organizations integrate security seamlessly into their DevOps pipelines for secure software delivery at scale. Akhil holds CISSP and CCSP certifications and actively contributes to cybersecurity strategy discussions. He also serves in advisory roles at institutions like UT Austin’s Strauss Center, where his work influences the evolution of secure software development practices.
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Gaurav Mittal is a seasoned IT Manager with 15+ years of leadership experience, adept at guiding teams in developing and deploying cutting-edge technology solutions. Specializing in strategic IT planning, budget management, and project execution, he excels in AWS Cloud, security protocols, and container technologies. Gaurav is skilled in Java, Python, Node.js, and CI/CD pipelines, with a robust background in database management (Aurora, Redshift, DynamoDB). His achievements include substantial cost savings through innovative solutions and enhancing operational efficiency. Gaurav is recognized for his leadership, problem-solving abilities, and commitment to delivering exceptional IT services aligned with organizational goals.
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Shridhar Mittal is a general manager of Application Delivery at CA Technologies, leading a team responsible for addressing the most critical challenges enterprises face when adopting their DevOps strategy. He draws on more than 20 years experience in the software industry to lead a global team that combines research, development, product management and solutions engineering to drive the company’s Application Delivery business. Shridhar comes to CA Technologies as a result of the ITKO acquisition in 2011. As CEO he guided ITKO into a strong position across the highly specialized SOA. Shridhar is a native of India and received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of New Delhi. A holder of multiple patents, he has also earned a master's degree in industrial engineering from the State University of New York, Buffalo and a PhD in industrial engineering from Purdue University.
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Leila Modarres is Chief Marketing Officer at Infostretch, a provider of digital transformation services to enterprises. She has 15+ years of experience in marketing and communications serving high-growth enterprise software companies and early-stage technology companies. She has a proven track record in establishing powerful brands, defining and establishing new market segments in line with product and corporate objectives and building successful closed-loop sales driven go-to-market programs focused on driving revenue.
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Rich has 20 years experience in information security, physical security, and risk management. He is a founder of DisruptOPS, a cloud operations and security platform, and the independent research firm Securosis. He is also the principle course designer of the Cloud Security Alliance training class, main writer of the CSA Guidance version 4, and actively works on developing hands-on cloud security techniques. Prior to founding DisruptOPS and
Securosis, Rich was a Research Vice President at Gartner on the security team. Prior to his seven years at Gartner, Rich worked as an independent consultant, web application developer, software development manager at the University of Colorado, and systems and network administrator.
Rich is the Security Editor of TidBITS and is a frequent industry speaker at events including the RSA Security Conference, Black Hat, and DefCon, and has spoken on every continent except Antarctica (where he's happy to speak for free -- assuming travel is covered).
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:**Ashwin Raghav Mohan Ganesh is a Senior Stagg Engineering Manager at Google. He serves as the Engineering lead for Project IDX. He’s also to blame for those pesky Firebase APIs. He’s been building software and software teams for two decades at Google, Twitter, Zynga, Thoughtworks and Intel. He considers himself a specialist at building developer tools and facing the wrath of unhappy developers around the world.
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Jagan Mojanraj is a Microsoft Certified Software Architect at InEight Inc.
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Suchismita Mohanty is a product marketing expert with Oracle Communications.
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Lilac Mohr is the Interim VP of Engineering at Pluralsight Flow. She has a passion for helping individual contributors and teams use data to frame the human stories behind their engineering work. Lilac has 25 years of experience in the tech industry and holds a B.S. degree in Computer Information Systems and an M.S. degree in Statistics. She is also the author of two middle-grade math adventure novels that encourage girls to pursue STEM fields.
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Atefeh is a seasoned security researcher and developer with over eight years of experience. She currently crafts a secure, open-source code hosting engine at Harness Inc., and has previously worked at Google (Cloud Security) and Oracle. Atefeh's passion extends beyond code, with published several research papers on emerging technologies, leadership roles in 40+ major security conferences and workshops globally, and active contributions to open-source projects. She champions security training and education, building a safer digital landscape one line of code at a time.
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Keith Mokris is the Product Marketing Lead for Prisma Cloud at Palo Alto Networks, where he is focused on helping enterprises secure their cloud native environments. Previously, he led product marketing at Twistlock, the container security leader acquired by Palo Alto Networks; and NowSecure, a mobile application security testing startup. In his free time, he is a landscape and street photographer.
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Anthony is a cheerful visionary who is quick to solutions. He is a natural public speaker with extensive experience in the hospitality industry and is driven to learn, teach, and share. These virtues are coupled with the rare, albeit odd, combination of graphic design and software engineering skills which Anthony uses to guide customers of Project Phoenix towards their desirable experience.
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Myron Monets is a Marketing Assistant at Mobilunity. He is passionate about IT and modern technologies. As the company provides dedicated development teams, he is able to gain experience right from the developers and stay up-to-date with the trends.
Gabriel Monroy
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Gabriel is the creator of Deis, the open source PaaS and CTO @ OpDemand. Gabriel has worked in Dev & Ops for 15+ years.
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Solutions Architect at groundcover, revolutionizing observability with eBPF. Experienced global leader, technologist, and strategist with a demonstrated history of working in IT, DevOps, and the software industry. Strong sales and technology background skilled in Monitoring, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Architecture and Infrastructure, Digital Strategy, APIs, Microservices, DevOps, and Software Engineering.
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Ross Moore is the Cyber Security Support Analyst with Passageways. He was Co-lead on SOC 2 Type 1 implementation and Lead on SOC 2 Type 2 implementation, facilitated the company’s BCP/DR TTX, and is a HIPAA Security Officer. Over the course of his 20 year IT career, Ross has served in a variety of operations and infosec roles for companies in the manufacturing, healthcare, real estate, business insurance, and technology sectors. He holds (ISC)2’s SSCP and CompTIA’s Security + certifications, a B.S. in Cyber Security and Information Assurance from WGU, and a B.A. in Bible/Counseling from Johnson University. He is also a regular writer at Bora.
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Aviran Mordo is the VP of engineering at Wix. In his 20+ years in the software industry, Aviran has held a number of engineering roles and leading positions, from designing and building the US National Archives Electronic Records Archives prototype to building large search engine infrastructures. Aviran has vast knowledge of internet technologies, software development, and continuous delivery. He is a technology blogger as well as a dev-centric culture advocate.
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Adam is a global authority on open talent, crowdsourcing, and distributed work, with 20+ years of expertise in helping enterprises discover, innovate and find success through the power of talent communities. At Distributed, Adam focuses on building Distributed's global Elastic Teams community to ensure that freelance software developers have careers with more benefits than permanent employment.
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Herman Morgan works as a tech analyst at Tatvasoft.com.au, a customer software and mobile app development company in Australia. He loves to travel to natural places.
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JP Morgenthal is an internationally renowned thought leader in the areas of IT transformation, modernization, and cloud computing. JP has served in executive roles within major software companies and technology startups. Areas of expertise include strategy, architecture, application development, infrastructure and operations, cloud computing, DevOps, and integration. He routinely advices C-level executives on the best ways to use technology to derive business value. JP is a published author with four trade publications. Hist most recent is “Cloud Computing: Assessing the Risks”. JP hold both a Masters and Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from Hofstra University.
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Alex Morozov is the chief technology officer and co-founder at Datafold, a data reliability platform that helps data teams deliver reliable data products faster. Visit Datafold at www.datafold.com/, and follow the company on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and YouTube.
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Jeff Morris is VP of Product and Solutions Marketing at Couchbase. He's spent over three decades marketing software development tools, databases, analytic tools, cloud services, and other open source products. He'd be the first to tell you that anyone looking for a fast, flexible, familiar, and affordable cloud-to-edge database-as-a-service can stop looking after they check out Couchbase.
David Mortman
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John Morton is Field CTO at Britive, cloud-native identity and access management platform. He’s a seasoned cybersecurity defender, learn-by-doing enthusiast, and hacking tinkerer. Accomplishments include numerous vendor technical sales MVP awards, and US Navy submarine service veteran.
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Frank Moyer is a 25-year technology industry veteran with a track record of building value in startups and exiting successfully. As CTO of Kobiton, Frank sets the product and technology direction for the company.
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Tim Mueting is Director, Product Marketing for Continuous Delivery and Release Automation solutions at CA Technologies. He has more than 20 years of experience in delivering and marketing large-scale enterprise hardware and software IT solutions, and has been a regular speaker at industry events on a variety of topics including Enterprise Management, Virtualization and Cloud Computing. Prior to joining CA Technologies Tim was responsible for Cloud and Virtualization Solutions Marketing at Advanced Micro Devices.
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Maria Mugica is a VP heading DGS:Next at Ericsson North America. In her current role, she manages a portfolio and service delivery transformation to introduce CI/CD and cloud native across Digital Services teams.
She has more than 20 years of experience in the Telecommunications industry as a business-driven leader and Manager in Service Delivery, leading cross functional teams and providing solution and service delivery expertise for ICT projects.
Prior to her current role she led a BSS transformation program for a tier-1 operator in Latin America, as a Program Director enabling significant efficiencies in terms of total Capex, Opex as well as time to market and customer experience improvements.
She began her career in Ericsson as a System Integrator, deploying Charging System solutions in Middle East and Africa. She has formerly also taken roles as Service Delivery Manager, Offering Lead, as well as 3PP management and Tactical Resource planning functions.
She has an extensive set of technical financial and business skill, with a long and proven practice of customer facing and internal efficiency programs and a deep knowledge of the Telco, BSS, OSS, Core and Media industries. She has an excellent knowledge of the SI business and proven experience in several practice areas such as Service Delivery, Consulting, Customer Support and Managed Services.
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Mrinal is a Technology Consultant working at Assurity Consulting Ltd, New Zealand. He partners with government and private sector clients to implement DevOps practices and is passionate about Infrastructure as Code and automation of Infrastructure Security Compliance.
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Sandipan Mukherjee is the North America Head of Delivery and Operations for Digital Customer Experience (DCX) Pega Practice at Capgemini. He is deeply committed to driving end-to-end digital roadmap and delivery services to implement the necessary software for clients across various Market Units in Capgemini North America. He has successfully led large-scale programs for Capgemini to resolve business challenges for industries including but not limited to High Tech, Telecommunication, Automotive, Health Care, Pharmaceutical and Finance.
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Arijit Mukherji is a distinguished architect at Splunk and passionate about monitoring and observability. As the former CTO and first employee at SignalFx, Arijit has spent years designing, developing, and managing many aspects of SignalFx’s product. Previously, Arijit was one of the original developers of Facebook’s metrics solution (ODS) and subsequently managed the development of Facebook’s networking tools, data visualization and other infrastructure monitoring software. He has been focused on the monitoring space for more than a decade, in a career that has also spanned IP telephony, VoIP conferencing, and network virtualization.
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Aaron Mulgrew is a cloud solutions engineer at Skytap.
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Steve Mullaney, a former senior executive at Palo Alto Networks, Nicira Networks and VMware Inc., is a board member of—and investor in—Aviatrix.
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Bill Mulligan currently works at Loodse as a Kubernetes advocate, helping companies understand if Kubernetes is the right fit for them. He has previously been published in The New Stack and spoken at the Open Networking Summit, ContainerDays, DevOn Summit, DevOps Gathering, Cloud Native Warsaw and Landing Festival.
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Chris is the founder and CEO of Nethopper Inc, a pioneer in KAOps - Kubernetes Application Operations platform as a service. Chris is an electrical engineer and has held leadership roles in engineering, product management, solution architecture and sales at 5 Boston and Silicon Valley based technology startups over the last 25 years. Past Technology segments include datacom, telecom, optical transport, wireless backhaul, mobile OTT video, and software composable infrastructure. His companies were acquired by Alcatel, Ciena, Ericsson, and Twitter.
Chris started Nethopper to give DevOps control of microservice container placement and communications over multiple clusters located in any site, cloud, network, or K8s platform.
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Anbu Muppidathi is the CEO of Qualitest. A technology veteran with more than 30 years of experience in digital transformation and technology modernization, Anbu’s specialty includes breakthrough thinking, strategic business transformation, organizational design and building world-class technology and business practices. Anbu has personally led the development of multi-billion-dollar global technology services companies in the areas of Cloud Application services, Banking and Financial Services and Quality Engineering & Assurance, and is currently transforming Qualitest to be the global #1 AI-Powered Quality Engineering firm for Cloud, Data and AI technologies.
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Michel Murabito is a Developer Advocate at Mia-Platform, born in 1986 in Turin and raised in Sicily, began writing software for fun at the age of 12. First job at 18 as a Software Developer, from there he began to explore various contexts and new opportunities for professional growth, working both as an employee and as a freelancer for the Sicilian Region, MiBACT, and the creation of numerous digital startups and innovative products. Since 2015, he has been involved in Developer Relations, first in the Developer Relations team for a large American multinational, then independently, and now as a Developer Advocate at Mia-Platform.
Glenn Murray
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Glenn has extensive experience in the management of multi-million dollar projects in identification and application of ICT solutions across the oil and gas, mining, heavy vehicle manufacturing, mining, defence (Electronic Warfare) and telecommunication industries. During Glenn’s corporate career he has led complex teams involving multi-disciplined ICT professionals to deliver agile digital technology models for resource and energy assets.
His military background and focus on national security has built a passion for cyber security and protecting the world we live in. Glenn embarked on studying a Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) in Cyber Security at Edith Cowan University and combined with his electronic warfare experience led to him identify a market opportunity in cyber security. Following a year as CTO of Sapien Cyber, an ECU backed start-up, Glenn took on the role of CEO to deliver on his vision of providing world class cyber security solutions to critical infrastructure industries. Glenn also holds a Masters of Systems Engineering, and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from University of New South Wales.
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Kumaresan Muthaliar, Senior Tech Lead at Avalara, has spent over ten years developing software solutions that have helped businesses meet challenges and satisfy customers. Kumaresan's skills run the gamut from front-end programming with technologies such as Javascript, Angular, VueJs, React, to back-end languages such as Node.js, Python, and Java. His most proud achievement is being able to maintain and automate AWS infrastructure for one of his recent projects.
Muhammad Muzammil Rawjani
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Muhammad Muzammil Rawjani is the Co-Founder of TechnBrains, a forward-thinking application development company. With over 10 years of experience in the IT industry, he excels in C#, ASP.NET, and Linux technologies. Muzammil's expertise lies in building scalable systems, leading mega projects, and developing high-performing teams. As a firm believer in brand-led growth, he strives to create transformative solutions that add value to people's lives and shape an ideal future for future generations.
