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Uri Zaidenwerg is the DevOps Lead at Replix, a multicloud data service for Kubernetes. A seasoned DevOps engineer, Uri’s expertise covers various stacks of applications along with a deep strategic understanding of technology and processes, both in development and production. He is an alumnus of the Israeli military’s elite Center of Computing and Information Systems unit, MAMRAM.
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Manuel Zapf is the head of product OSS at Containous, a cloud-native networking company behind the open source projects Traefik and Maesh.
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Frank Zdarsky is Senior Principal Software Engineer in Red Hat’s Office of the CTO responsible for Edge Computing. He is also a member of Red Hat’s Edge Computing leadership team. Zdarsky’s team of seasoned engineers is developing advanced Edge Computing technologies, working closely with Red Hat’s business, engineering, and field teams as well as contributing to related open source community projects. He is serving on the Linux Foundation Edge’s technical advisory council and is a TSC member of the Akraino project.

Prior to this, Zdarsky was leading telco/NFV technology in the Office of the CTO and built a forward deployed engineering team working with Red Hat’s most strategic partners and customers on enabling OpenStack and Kubernetes for telco/NFV use cases. He has also been an active contributor to open source projects such as OpenStack, OpenAirInterface, ONAP, and Akraino.
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Dan Zentgraf is a Senior Principal Consultant with CA Technologies Inc., where he works with Very Large Companies on their adoption of DevOps practices. In the Austin, Texas, tech community, Dan organizes the AgileAustin DevOps SIG and helps organize the DevOps Days Austin conference.
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Peng Zhao is the Founder and CEO of VisualOps. Previously, he initiated and led the IaaS projects for China Mobile as well as being both manager and developer in a various companies, including Reuters and Platform Computing.
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Stefan Zier is the Chief Architect at Sumo Logic. He enjoys building and running large distributed systems. He is also one of the key influencers for Sumo Logic’s DevOps culture. Prior to Sumo Logic, Stefan was a key contributor to several products at ArcSight (now HP).
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Offir Zigelman is a Product Manager for Dome9 Security. He has 10 years of experience in enterprise networking, cloud solutions and data security. Prior to joining Dome9, Offir was a Systems Architect at Imperva, working on their SecureSphere Web Application Firewall. His career also includes working as a software engineer leading the development of a new social networking solution and interfaces for CRM applications.
At Dome9, he is responsible for leading the product management of the Dome9 Arc platform, leveraging his technology background to improve product capabilities and provide solutions to assist with the growing challenges in public cloud environments. Offir holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion).
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Shane is the founder and CEO of Los Angeles software development agency ClearSummit, and the co-founder and CTO of TuneRegistry, music rights SaaS platform. He also provides consulting services to startups and enterprise companies. Prior to working in the agency space, Shane built news media backends and part of the FAA's air traffic control system. He has a B.S. in Computer Engineering from UVA. He has a passion for efficiency and combining the best tech and design to solve complex problems.
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Adam Zimman is vice-president of product and platform at LaunchDarkly. Adam has over 20 years of experience working in a variety of roles from software engineering through to technical sales. He has worked in both enterprise and consumer companies such as VMware, EMC and GitHub. Adam is driven by a passion for inclusive leadership and solving problems with technology. One additional objective is to be a part of a diverse and equitable company. Not simply an organization that accepts diversity, but one that actively pursues a more diverse and inclusive team as an imperative for building better products and services. Adam is also an advisor for a number of startups and nonprofits. His perspective on life has been shaped by a background in physics and visual arts, an ongoing adventure as a husband and father, and a childhood career as a fire juggler.
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Dennis Zimmer is a co-founder and the chief technology officer of Codenotary, provider of tools for notarization and verification of the software development lifecycle attesting to the provenance and safety of the code. He has more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry.
Cassandra Zimmerman
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Cassandra Zimmerman is a technical product manager at Virtru. She started her career as a full-stack developer for web and macOS applications, and has managed projects and products in the DeFi, NFT, gaming, and most recently, data protection and security spaces. The latter corresponds to her role in helping to develop and manage the OpenTDF project, an open-source API and SDK that leverages the Trusted Data Format (TDF) to enable zero-trust data protection.
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Galeal is the CEO of NetFoundry. Galeal has been a founder and executive for the past 15 years at startups and large companies such as ITXC, Teleglobe, LocalReplay and Tata Communications. Galeal’s teams designed, developed and implemented the world’s largest VoIP network and built global voice and video communications services. Galeal has been awarded eight patents for the software and platforms powering those services, and the patented software currently powers the services of some of the world’s top communications providers. Galeal was born in New York, graduated from Bucknell University and currently resides in the Charlotte, NC area with his wife and their four children.
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This post was written by Dawid Ziolkowski. Dawid has 10 years of experience as a network/system Engineer at the beginning, DevOps in between, cloud-native engineer most recently. He’s worked for an IT outsourcing company, a research institute, a telco, a hosting company and a consultancy so he’s gathered a lot of knowledge from different perspectives. Nowadays, he’s helping companies move to cloud and/or redesign their infrastructure for a more cloud-native approach.
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Moshe has been researching security for over 20 years in multiple industries, specializing in penetration testing, detection algorithms and incident response; he is a constant contributor to the hacking community and has been co-founder of the Shabbatcon security conference for the past six years.
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Evgeny Zislis is technical director, office of the CTO, at DoiT International. He is responsible for cultivating collaborative innovation with DoiT teams and customers as well as working to synthesize information from previous experiences and new learnings into suggestions for new DoiT products and platforms.
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Sharone is the open source community lead for Cloudify, at GigaSpaces Technologies.
In her spare time she helps drive other local communities, including the the DevOps Israel community, and the OpenStack Israel community - and helps organize five meetups worldwide. Find her on Twitter or Linkedin.
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Oleg is a Software Engineer and Cyber Security veteran, with over 15 years of experience. At Hysolate, Oleg led an engineering team for several years, after which he joined as an architect to the CTO's office and has pioneered the next-gen products. Prior to Hysolate, Oleg worked at companies such as Google and Cellebrite, where he did both software engineering and security research. He began his career in the intelligence unit 8200 of the IDF and holds a B.Sc in Computer Science, Cum Laude, from the Technion.
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Aviv is a founding engineer at groundcover, a start up with a mission to reinvent the cloud-native application monitoring domain with eBPF. His focus is gaining a deep understanding of software systems in order to design and build accessible, high performant platforms. In his previous life, Aviv was a security researcher figuring out the ins and outs of weird machines. In his free time he is passionate about gaming, crossfit and playing the piano
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Rob Zuber is a 23-year veteran of software startups; a four-time founder, three-time CTO. Since joining CircleCI, Rob has seen the company through its Series B, C and D, and delivered on product innovation at scale. Rob leads a team of 200+ engineers who are distributed around the globe.
Prior to CircleCI, Rob was the CTO and Co-founder of Distiller, a continuous integration and deployment platform for mobile applications acquired by CircleCI in 2014. Before that, he cofounded Copious an online social marketplace. Rob was the CTO and Co-founder of Yoohoot, a technology company that enabled local businesses to connect with nearby consumers, which was acquired by Appconomy in 2011. Rob holds a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Science from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and lives in Oakland, California with his wife and two children.
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Alejandra Zuluaga Vice President, Business Development & Strategic Growth at CertiProf, is characterized by her passion for helping and positively impacting people's lives. She bases her personal life on values such as responsibility, honesty, hard work and a passion for things done well.
She is an engineer and her professional skills have been developed mainly in leadership, management and strategy to improve the growth and results of organizations through the development of their teams. Her experience exceeds 10 years in the information technology sector, mainly in management roles, of which 6 have focused on the certification industry improving the professional profile of thousands of people through knowledge validation.
