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Krishna is co-founder of INVOKE Cloud, a cloud compute cost optimization solution. Krishna started his career as software developer and transformed into business development with more than a decade of experience in running multi-million dollar projects. DevOps and Cloud enthusiast. When he is not building business for INVOKE Cloud, he likes to run or bike.
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Saikumar Talari is a content writer who is currently working for Mindmajix.com. He is a technical blogger who likes to write content on emerging technologies in the software industry. In his free time, he enjoys playing football.
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Keyur Talati is a security analyst at WeSecureApp.
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Sammy Tam is the vice president of engineering for Cirrus Data Solutions. As a founding member of the R&D team at Cirrus Data, Sammy has been instrumental in developing block-level data migration technologies and software. Based in Syosset, NY, Sammy leads the worldwide engineering and development team. For more information, visit www.cirrusdata.com
Zydrunas Tamasauskas
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:**Žydrūnas Tamašauskas, Head of Product Development
Throughout the 17 years Žydrūnas has spent in the IT industry, he has been closely involved with many fields of software development, allowing him to become one of the most well-rounded experts in the sector.
His exceptional ability to understand any technical challenge and commitment to maintaining the highest quality of work has led him to become the Head of Product Development at Oxylabs, a leading global provider of premium proxies and public web data scraping solutions, where he manages several teams of developers and shoulders the responsibility of a major part of the tech stack.
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As Chief Technology Officer, Madalina leads Engineering, Architecture, Production Engineering, Security, Excellence Enablement and Quality Assurance for Collibra. She brings over 15 years of leadership expertise in software engineering, cloud-native distributed systems and process management to the company. Previously Madalina was the Vice President of Operations & Excellence at Collibra, where she led organizational transformation for Product Operations and Engineering, with a focus on engineering practices, scale and operational excellence. Prior to joining Collibra, she served as the Vice President of Engineering for Unified Platform at Medidata Solutions, a SaaS provider for clinical research in life sciences, where she held several prior engineering leadership positions. Before Medidata, she worked in software engineering roles at the NYC Department of Education and TotalSoft. Madalina has a Master’s and BS in Computer Science from University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest.
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JJ is the co-founder of Rootly (YC S21), a Slack-native incident management solution. He is based in Toronto, Canada and previously lead product at Instacart and IBM. He is obsessed with developer productivity, F1, and his adopted dog.
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Sai Babu Tanguturi works for HCL Technologies Ltd as a lead engineer.
Matthew Tanner
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Matt Tanner
Head of Developer Relations at Moesif. Previously @tyk and @dgraph Labs
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Alexander Tarasov is a skilled software engineer with over ten years of experience in designing and implementing tech solutions with a global perspective on business transformation and operations. He is currently a Head of Technology at KITRUM and has previously worked independent tech consultant for projects in various industries, including financial, high technology, medical, manufacturing, retail, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical.
Mandar Taskar
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Mandar Taskar, who leads a portfolio of strategic client engagements in the UKI region at ITC Infotech, is a seasoned Digital Transformation Leader with over 30 years in the IT industry. Over the past 15+ years, Mandar has worked extensively with global banks and insurance organizations in the UK, earning a reputation as a trusted advisor to CxOs. He has driven large-scale, innovative solutions leveraging advanced technologies such as AI and Cloud, resulting in improved end-customer experiences, workflow automation, cost savings, and the creation of new revenue streams.
Madison Taskett
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Ibrahim Taufique is a Senior Solutions Delivery Manager with almost a decade of technical and customer-facing IoT and cloud experience. In his customer success role at cloudtamer.io, he uses his deep experience across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud to help current and future customers evaluate and implement cloudtamer.io and achieve a well-governed cloud. He is heavily involved throughout the customer journey in discovery calls, product demonstrations, proof of concepts, application onboarding, and ongoing technical support. He also serves as a customer advocate to the engineering team to help grow the cloudtamer.io capabilities and ensure the product supports the needs of a growing customer base.
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Chrystal Taylor is a dedicated technologist with nearly a decade of experience and has built her career by leveraging curiosity to solve problems, no matter the size, industry, or client. Whether tinkering with the family computer, or inflicting general destruction in MS-DOS Tank Wars, Taylor has always been a geek.
Taylor is a SolarWinds deployment veteran who’s built a successful IT career by translating client needs into optimized and performant systems. She loves customizing current deployments to ensure systems grow in tandem with user needs. She’s achieved several SolarWinds certifications. A THWACK® MVP since 2011, she understands the power of community and the SolarWinds commitment to its users.
In her role as the Global Services Team Lead for Loop1 Systems, Taylor was the troubleshooting sniper, handling technical escalation for the engineering team, providing break/fix and augmentation support, and assisting clients as the subject matter expert for SolarWinds® Orion® Platform and Security Event Manager (SEM) (formerly Log & Event Manager) products. Her focus on capacity planning, server architecture, and troubleshooting allow her to attack any issue on multiple fronts.
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Daniel Taylor is an experienced professional in supporting candidates with new job opportunities and helping startups fill their open positions. He is a contributor to various sites and currently serves as the Head of Content for Here I Work.
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Kieran Taylor has over 20 years of high-tech product marketing experience with a focus on application performance management, AIOps and DevOps disciplines. He is author of DevOps for Digital Leaders and is head of marketing for Broadcom’s Enterprise Software Division leading go to market activities for Digital BizOps solutions. Prior he led product marketing teams at Adobe, Akamai, DataPower/IBM and Nortel Networks. His career began as an editor of high-tech publications at Mc-Graw Hill.
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Ryan Taylor is Head of Product at Transposit. He has over 15 years of experience as a leader in Technical Operations with expertise in product development for internal services and SaaS products. Ryan joined Transposit after almost five years at Hulu as Director of Production Operations. Prior to Hulu, Ryan led the global Intuit Operations and Application Operations teams for Quickbooks, TurboTax, and Mint.com. His career began at ABC Financial when the business realized the advantages of software development. Contributing to a SaaS product early on led him to pursue hands-on technical operations roles at multiple companies, shaping the leader he is today.
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Twain is a Fixate IO contributor and began his career at Google, where, among other things, he was involved in technical support for the AdWords team. His work involved reviewing stack traces, resolving issues affecting both customers and the support team, and handling escalations. Later, he built branded social media applications and automation scripts to help startups better manage their marketing operations. Today, as a technology journalist he helps IT magazines and startups change the way teams build and ship applications.
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I am Prachi Tembhekar, a DevOps Consultant at Amazon Web Services (AWS) with expertise in cloud computing and infrastructure optimization. Holding certifications as an AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate and AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional, I specialize in designing and implementing sophisticated AWS environments. My career is marked by a commitment to promoting diversity in technology, particularly through mentoring women and non-binary individuals in the tech field. Additionally, I am the author of "30 Days to DevOps Proficiency," aiming to make complex technical concepts accessible to a broader audience. My work and contributions can be verified through my professional profile on LinkedIn.
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Dr Liam Terblanche has over 25 years experience in software engineering, covering all the facets of the SDLC. This includes leading development teams in the commercial software space, enterprise systems development, and telecommunications.
Micro-services architecture and DevOps has been his primary focus over the last few years. But his passion will always be engineering. Making something out of nothing. Making something exceptional out of something ordinary.
He holds a PhD in Technology and Innovation Management, a Master's degree in Software Engineering, and a B.Eng in Electronic Engineering.
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Kapil Thangavelu is the co-founder and CTO at Stacklet, where he is focused on building products to help companies manage their cloud infrastructure. He is also the creator and lead maintainer for CNCF's Cloud Custodian project, used by thousands of global brands. Prior to Stacklet, he led various engineering and open source initiatives at AWS, Capital One, and Canonical in past roles.
Pratik Thantharate
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Pratik Thantharate (Member, IEEE) has over a decade of experience as a dedicated researcher and Principal Software Engineer specializing in Agile software development and DevOps. He received an M.S. degree in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Binghamton, U.S., in 2013. He is currently a Principal Software Engineer at Paycor, focusing on designing and implementing robust frameworks. His research interests include Agile software development, DevOps, code-to-cloud security, monitoring, observability and data privacy. He brings his expertise in continuous integration/continuous delivery pipelines, infrastructure as code, containerization and microservices architecture to drive innovation in next-generation DevOps platforms, observability frameworks, and end-to-end code to cloud security. He aims to enable rapid and reliable software delivery through cutting-edge research in these areas.
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David is a entrepreneurial-minded technical professional with over 30 years of IT experience. I possess extensive subject matter expertise in Software Engineering, DevOps, Agile Development, IT Service Management (ITSM), and Site Reliability Engineering. My approach involves unifying people, process, and technology to create a cohesive system that consistently delivers continuous value to our stakeholders.
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I have 20+ years of experience in the technology industry mainly working in software development, system integration and operations management. Focussed on Cloud Engineering and DevOps during the last several years. Managed operations teams, and architected and developed automation tools and processes for both startups and large corporations. Also, I write, and speak on DevOps topics, and active in the DevOps community in the Silicon Valley as an organizer of Downtown San Jose DevOps meetup group.
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Venkat Thiruvengadam is the founder and CEO at DuploCloud.
Jilene Thomas
Maria Thomas
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Maria Thomas is Content Marketing Manager and Product Specialist at GreyCampus with eight years rich experience in professional certification courses including PMI- Project Management Professional, PMI-ACP, Prince2, ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library), Big Data, Cloud and Six Sigma.
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Ed Thompson is CTO and co-founder of Matillion. He started his career as an IBM software consultant, and spent 11 years consulting for some of the premier blue-chip companies in the UK. Along with CEO Matthew Scullion, he launched Matillion in 2011 and set about building a crack team of data integration experts and software engineers. He and his team launched Matillion's flagship ETL product in 2014, which has driven the company’s growth ever since. Ed’s strength is his ability to bring together best-in-class technologies from across the software ecosystem and apply them to solving the deep and complex requirements of modern businesses in new and disruptive ways.
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An ardent believer in personal data privacy and the technology behind it, Katrina Thompson is a freelance writer leaning into encryption, data privacy legislation and the intersection of information technology and human rights. She has written for Bora, Venafi, Tripwire and many other sites.
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Neal Thomas is content editor at Fasthosts, a UK provider of dedicated and cloud hosting services including CloudNX, the next-generation cloud platform.
Jane Thomson
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Jane Thomson is Content Marketing Manager at GreyCampus with five years rich experience on developing content for professional certification courses like PMP- Project Management Professional, PMI-ACP, Prince2, ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library), Big Data, Cloud, Digital Marketing and Six Sigma.
Curt Thorin
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Curt Thorin is a Solutions Consultant at OpsRamp. He has 20+ years' experience in enterprise IT software and services.
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Stefan Thorpe is the chief engineering officer at Cherre, the leading data integration and insights platform. An expert in DevOps and solutions architecture, Stefan has over 20 years of management and hands-on experience providing technical solutions to support strategic business objectives. Prior to joining Cherre, Stefan co-founded Caylent, a DevOps-as-a-Service platform that simplifies building, deploying, and managing stacks of apps & services. Stefan started his career in information technology as a regional IT engineer at Mace, an international consultancy and construction company. He holds a Bachelor of Science in computer science from The Open University.
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Andy Thurai is an accomplished IT executive, strategist, advisor, and evangelist with 25-plus years of experience in executive, technical, and architectural leadership positions at companies such as IBM, Intel, BMC, Nortel, and Oracle. He also advises many start-ups. He has been a keynote speaker at major conferences and served as host for many webcasts, podcasts, webinars, and video chats. Andy has written more than 100 articles on emerging technology topics for publications such as Forbes, The New Stack, AI World, VentureBeat, DevOps.com, APM Digest, and Wired magazine.
Andy’s topics of interest and expertise include AIOps, ITOps, observability, artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud, edge, and other enterprise software. His strength is selling technology to the CxO audience with value proposition rather than a technology pitch.
You can find more details and samples of Andy’s work on his website at www.thefieldcto.com
Brooks Thurston
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Matt Thurston has worked in the tech industry for more than 15 years. He has a passion for writing and enjoys sharing his insights on tech and business with others.
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Doug lives in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina, where he works as a Technical Director for CloudBees. His job is to create a demo infrastructure that encompasses all of the company's products. Doug is a technology evangelist, writer, developer and the author of XSLT 2.0.
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Jamie Tischart is currently the VP of Software Engineering and the former VP of Technical Operations for SendGrid and formerly the CTO for Cloud at Intel Security, responsible for leading future Cloud security strategies. In 13 years at McAfee, Tischart held several roles including Sr. Director of Cloud Engineering and Sr. Director McAfee Labs - Quality Engineering & Operations. Prior to McAfee, Tischart held several technical leadership positions at companies such as MX Logic and Openwave. Tischart holds an MBA from Aspen University. He is the founder of Vets4CySec, a non-profit supporting our veterans with career services in Cyber Security and is an advisory board member for the University of Colorado Denver as well as ControlsForce a leader in protection against Insider Threats. Jamie lives in Colorado with his wife Corena and their 3 children.
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Will To is a Senior Product Evangelist at Imply, where he examines product use cases, discusses Imply features, and provides enablement support to sales teams. Will also interviews customers on their Imply experience and shares their stories through ebooks, blogs, and other content. Will has a particular interest in cybersecurity, observability, and IoT, and prior to his
time at Imply, worked at Datadog and MongoDB.
Wing To
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Wing To is the General Manager of Intelligent DevOps at Digital.ai. He joined Digital.ai in 2020 after a distinguished 14-year tenure at IBM. With 20 years of experience in creating enterprise software products and managing large global teams, Wing has deep expertise in agile, DevOps, cloud, VSM and more.
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Mark Tognetti leads the Creator Workflow Product Success team at ServiceNow. Mark helps ServiceNow’s top customers drive transformation using the Now Platform and Now Intelligence capabilities. His team is focused on application development, enterprise architecture and analytics. Mark brings 30 years of enterprise IT experience - both as a practitioner and a consultant. He joined ServiceNow from PwC where he was Managing Director responsible for the Google practice. Prior to PwC, he held technology leadership roles with Appirio, PHH Arval, Cendant Corporation and Thomson Corporation.
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Ain TohVri is CTO at Savings United, the leading voucher code partner of premium media companies. One of the fastest-growing tech companies in EMEA according to Deloitte, Savings United develops managed performance marketing SaaS platforms.
Ain has over 15 years of experience of working in Agile environments, including software projects the likes of SingTel, HSBC, Deutsche Telekom, Deutsche Post/DHL, Nike, Sennheiser and others. He is fortunate to have been part of the award-winning teams that have claimed FWA, Red Dot and German Design Awards to name a few.
Niraj Tolia
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Niraj Tolia is the CEO and Co-Founder at Kasten and is interested in all things Kubernetes. He has played multiple roles in the past, including the Senior Director of Engineering for Dell EMC's CloudBoost family of products and the VP of Engineering and Chief Architect at Maginatics (acquired by EMC). Niraj received his PhD, MS, and BS in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Ruchi has around 20 years of experience in leading execution of IT projects for various customers in technical leadership roles. She has been involved in designing, implementing and managing enterprise grade, highly scalable i18n solutions catering to multiple geographies with diverse needs.
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Mariusz Tomczyk is a senior DevOps engineer at STX Next, where he has worked for more than two and a half years. He previously worked as a DevOps engineer for Nokia.
Chad Tons
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Dominik Tornow is a principal engineer at Cisco. He focuses on systems modeling, specifically conceptual and formal modeling, to support the design and documentation of complex software systems.
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Gaurang Torvekar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Indorse, an all-in-one platform to build, grow, and sustain tech teams. He has worked on innovative ideas across the spectrum of the Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and the HR Tech space. This is his second company in the sector. He spends his time between Singapore and London.In his current role, he focuses mainly on product development while leading a team of world-class software developers. Their latest product is called Metamorph, a SaaS product that gives engineering leaders clear visibility into their engineering workflows.
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Joel Tosi spent almost 10 years at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and a few years at Red Hat before heading out on his own. For the past 7 years as an independent consultant, Joel has been working with organizations to help them learn how to build better products - better. This experience has led him to co-found Dojo and Co. Dojo and Co focuses on helping organizations become learning organizations - ones where not only are engineers learning latest delivery designs and skills but also teams are learning to build better products and organizations are learning to remove their own internal friction. Following rote practices is lame - Dojo and Co helps organizations learn to do their own thing.
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Tom Tovar is CEO and co-creator of Appdome, the mobile industry’s first no-code mobile solutions platform. Prior to Appdome, Tom served as executive chairman of Badgeville, an enterprise engagement platform acquired by CallidusCloud, and as CEO of Nominum, a DNS security and services provider that was acquired by Akamai.
Tovar holds a JD from Stanford Law School and a BBA in finance and accounting from the University of Houston.
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Christopher Tozzi has covered technology and business news for nearly a decade, specializing in open source, containers, big data, networking and security. He is currently Senior Editor and DevOps Analyst with Fixate.io and Sweetcode.io.
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Petr Travkin is a Senior Manager in the Data Analytics Consulting Practice at EPAM Systems, a leading global product development, digital platform engineering, and top digital and product design agency. Petr has a multi-year cross-industry field expertise of helping companies to develop and implement Enterprise Data strategies and architectures. He is a DataOps approach evangelist and Data Governance adept always eager to connect and exchange ideas upon building data-driven processes and organizations.
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Alex Tray is a system administrator with ten years of experience in the IT field. After getting his Bachelor's degree in computer science, he worked at a number of companies in Silicon Valley and helped start up a number of new businesses. Alex works as a system administrator at a large tech company in Texas at the moment. His main area of expertise is Windows Server and Desktop Administration. He also knows a lot about Azure, Active Directory, Office 365, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, Endpoint Manager (Intune), and Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (SCCM).
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Mike Tria is the Head of Engineering for Platform at Atlassian. Mike oversees Atlassian's global cloud infrastructure, identity & front-end platforms, enterprise offerings, and our third-party developer ecosystem. Mike has 15+ years of experience as a software engineer and leader, ranging from work at cloud-native startups to larger companies.
He's built and run all facets of product development, including product management, design, engineering, QA, and SCM/release, but has mostly focused on SaaS, e-commerce, and building communities. As a former comedian, Mike also brings high energy and a sense of humor to the tough challenges he faces.
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Mark Troester is the Vice President of Strategy at Progress. He helped guide the strategic go-to-market efforts for Progress before transitioning into a leadership role for Progress Chef, longtime leader in the DevOps space. Mark has extensive experience in helping organizations optimize their application delivery process by bringing together the different constituents required to deliver high-impact business applications - designers, developers, QA, data scientists, security professionals, and IT Ops: Mark is especially interested in the evolution of DevOps and DevSecOps. Previously, he worked with both up-starts and stalwarts like Sonatype, SAS, and Progress DataDirect. Before these positions, Mark worked as a developer and developer manager for start-ups and enterprises alike. Mark has extensive speaking experience on topics at the intersection of business and technology, including industry events hosted by Gartner, Forrester, TDWI, and more.
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Daisy Tsang is a Software Developer currently based in Berlin. She has worked at companies in Canada and Germany in the past few years, loves learning about new technologies, engaging with the community, and is particularly interested in the open source space. Her non-technical interests include knitting, baking, and learning new natural languages.
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John Turner, Senior Director, Cloud Security at Optiv, is an accomplished IT executive with more than 20 years of leadership and operational IT experience. As senior director of cloud security enablement at Optiv, Turner’s team of cloud architects are responsible for helping to ensure the successful integrated delivery of cloud security solutions. Turner plays a key part in bringing different areas of Optiv’s team together to deliver seamless cross practice wins. Turner also works as part of the cloud leadership team to define Optiv’s strategy and product portfolio.
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Mav Turner is the Senior Vice President of Product at Tricentis, a global leader in continuous testing. In his role, Mav oversees product growth and strategy aimed at enabling organizations to accelerate their digital transformation by increasing software release speed, reducing costs, and improving software quality. Prior to joining Tricentis, Mav worked as Vice President of Product at N-able and SolarWinds. Mav holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Texas State University.
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Scott leads digital and traditional marketing for Orcaconfig.com and Orca application configuration and release automation. Previously, Scott was Director of M&A/ Marketing Planning and Operations for multiple software and services companies that Dell acquired to form the nucleus of Dell Software business unit.
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Mike Turnlund is head of containerized field operations at DataCore Software, whose software-defined storage solutions for block, file and object storage, help more than 10,000 customers worldwide to modernize how they store, protect, and access data. For more information visit https://www.datacore.com/company/contact-us/.
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Josh oversees the innovation and refinement of Jama Software’s core product offerings. With a background in software development and consulting, Josh understands the daily challenges Jama’s customers face and the tools they need to be successful.
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Greg is AI passionate, fan of Lego Mindstorms robots and father of intive_Eva Facial Recognition solution.
He is on a mission to build strong computer vision team at intive.
With 15 years of experience in IT, he has acted as a project manager, program manager and branch manager.
He cooperated with Audi, DB Schenker, ZDF, Deutsche Telekom, Bayer, QIAGEN or Dräger Medical.
