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A passionate blogger who loves to travel and enjoys different continental food. He loves writing about technology and keeps a special tab on the software industry.
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Daniel Kador is Vice President of Engineering at Clockwise, a time management platform for teams.
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As General Manager of the Platform Business Unit, Josh Kahn is responsible for providing an application development platform for ServiceNow customers and partners to build applications that will transform the way the world works. The Platform Business Unit provides core platform services, machine learning, and integration capabilities accessible to both professional developers through scripting, and to everyone in the enterprise through no-code development tools. Kahn joined ServiceNow in 2016 from EMC Corporation (acquired by Dell) where he was Senior Vice President of Global Solutions, focusing in the areas of hybrid cloud and cloud native application platforms. Prior to EMC, Kahn held product management roles at Veritas (acquired by Symantec), Netscape Communications and several startups. Kahn started his career at Andersen Consulting, developing custom business applications.
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Mike D. Kail is Chief Innovation Officer at Cybric. Prior to Cybric, Mike was Yahoo’s CIO and SVP of Infrastructure, where he led the IT and global data center functions for the company. Prior to joining Yahoo, Mike served as Vice President of IT operations at Netflix, where he was responsible for employee technology and various cloud engineering components. He has been widely recognized for his insightful industry commentary on social media Twitter, and was recently named by the Huffington Post as one of the “Top 100 Most Social CIOs on Twitter.”
mike d. kail
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CIO @ Cybric
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Swaathi Kakarla is the co-founder and CTO at Skcript. She enjoys talking and writing about code efficiency, performance, and startups. In her free time, she finds solace in yoga, bicycling and contributing to open source.
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Ashish Kakran is a Principal at Thomvest Ventures with a focus on cybersecurity investments. Prior to joining Thomvest, Ashish supported founders in the cloud infrastructure space at Engineering Capital with product inputs, follow-on financing, and customer introductions through a CIO Forum he built from scratch. His journey in venture capital started with internships at BGV and Canaan Partners. At EVCA, a 500+ member community of pre-Partner VCs, he has led the Enterprise Infrastructure vertical while also serving as the President of the IIT Guwahati Bay Area Alumni group and member of the Executive Committee for PanIIT USA. Ashish has a BS in Computer Science from IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
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Sylvain is an entrepreneur who has worked in the tech industry for over a decade. He provides PR services, such as ghostwriting, media pitching, and communication strategy for tech startups. He is the co-founder of a software engineering school, its students get hired by leading companies like Google, NASA, Tesla, and Apple. Sylvain started his career as Site Reliability Engineer, working for companies like SlideShare and LinkedIn.
Amit Kalamkar
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Jeff Kalwerisky was formerly the Senior Information Security Architect (CISO designate) at TIBCO Software, Inc. As CISO at Alpha Software, Jeff oversees strategic data management and protection policies for the organization.
Eshan Kamath
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Eshan Kamath is a seasoned wireless consultant at HCL Technologies with 18+ years of experience in wireless and telecommunication.
He is currently a DevOps program manager responsible for building a strong DevOps team and meeting customer demands. Previously, he has taken up various roles in global program management at Alcatel-Lucent and was Change Control Board leader.
Srikanth Kamath
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Srikanth Kamath is a software engineer leading several efforts aimed at improving monitoring and observability for AI/ML systems at Meta.
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Sandeep Kampa is a senior DevSecOps engineer. He is a subject matter expert in DevOps, SecOps, and cloud computing. Sandeep has made significant contributions to numerous high-profile projects, enhancing and empowering organizations to achieve higher levels of efficiency, scalability, security and reliability. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering an a Master's degree in computer software engineering from Stratford University. For more information, contact [email protected]
Artur Kane
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Artur Kane works as a Head of Product Marketing at Flowmon Networks. He has gained extensive experience in both customer and technically oriented positions, which he invests into raising awareness of network visibility as a key success enabler and creating an educated community of enthusiasts.
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Harbinder is global head of developer operations at Finastra. He is passionate about continuous improvement in the software delivery cycle and has extensive experience managing multi-site agile teams developing financial software with a DevOps mindset.
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A Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in ASP.NET (2007 - 2012), Speaker, and Author of several books and articles. More than 25 years of experience in IT with more than 20 years in Microsoft .NET and its related technologies.
I have authored eight books and over 750 articles in some of the most reputed sites worldwide on .NET and its associated technologies, C#, Agile, DevOps, Cloud Computing, Design Patterns, Software Architecture, Machine Learning, Serverless, etc.
Was a speaker at the Spark IT 2010 event and the Dr. Dobb's Conference 2014 in Bangalore and also worked as a judge for the Jolt Awards at Dr. Dobb's Journal — a regular speaker at the SSWUG Virtual Conference.
Website: https://joydipkanjilal.com/
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Prateek Kansal is the Head of India Operations & Engineering at Komprise
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Partha is an engineer with interests in large-scale distributed systems, databases, operating systems, networks, architecture and distributed ML. Partha is currently the area lead for AI monitoring, observability and debugging for Meta.
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Mustafa Kapadia is the Service Line Leader for IBM’s DevOps practice, a business advisory practice focused on helping large enterprises transform their software & application delivery. He has over 17+ years of experience in the tech. space, both as a service provider and a management consultant.
Prior to joining IBM, Mustafa was a management consultant with Deloitte’s Strategy & Operations practice. He lives in San Francisco Bay Area, is an avid blogger (when time permitting), a speaker, and adviser to start ups.
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Evan is a passionate entrepreneur and technology leader with nearly twenty years of experience in the CEO role. Evan’s career spans from creating startups in his own garage to leading NASDAQ-listed companies generating nearly $200m in annual revenue. Prior to InfluxData, Evan served as Executive in Residence at Trinity Ventures, and President and CEO at iPass Corporation (the leader in Global Wi-Fi connectivity), and Founder, Chairman, and CEO at Aventail Corporation (the pioneer of SSLVPN’s, now part of the Dell Corporation).
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Rajiv Kapoor is the Senior Product Marketing Manager of NGINX at F5. Having achieved an MBA from University College Dublin, he’s spent his working life at the biggest names in tech, including Microsoft and Cisco. Rajiv is now based in Seattle, Washington in the US.
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Dimitar Karaivanov, CEO and co-founder of Kanbanize, is a Lean-thinker and a Kanban practitioner with a solid background in the areas of software development and process improvement. His expertise was gained through more than 15 years of career development at companies like Johnson Controls, SAP and Software AG. Dimitar has envisioned and brought to life the idea of Kanbanize as aimed at solving problems in the way companies manage big initiatives spread across multiple teams. Through the success of his company, he has proven that Kanban can be used for product development and not just change management activities. He is passionate about achieving extreme performance at scale and applying Lean/Kanban outside IT. Dimitar is a keynote speaker and author of "Lean Software Development with Kanban." He is an active member of the Lean/Kanban community and supporter of initiatives, which aim to promote it.
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Manoj Karanth heads the Data and Intelligence service line (data, AI, IoT) globally for Mindtree. He works with Global 2000 clients to accelerate their cloud-first journey and help them become insight-driven businesses using the cloud-native technology platforms of Mindtree. Manoj has built the technology center of excellence with leading cloud and data analytics partners to deliver differentiated digital solutions. He has lived cloud and product engineering through his nearly two-decade career.
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Dave Karow has three decades of experience in developer tools, developer communities and evangelizing ways to make software delivery more sustainable. Dave grew up just off-campus from Stanford University, as Silicon Valley morphed from defense to chips to software and finally, internet services. Dave's front-row seat to all of this gave him a unique point of view on the long arc and repeating themes of technology evolution. As continuous delivery evangelist for Split Software, Dave speaks on aligning progressive delivery (i.e. gradual rollouts of new code) with observability of system health, user experience and user behavior. Before Split.io, he democratized ‘shift left’ performance testing at BlazeMeter.
Vik Kasturi
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Vik Kasturi is an accomplished digital transformation consulting leader who has served as advisor to Senior executives at Fortune 500 retail, travel and hospitality companies. Vik's expertise includes digital customer experience, intelligent applications, cloud computing and devops.
Vik is the founder and president at Digitivy, a digital transformation consulting firm based in Atlanta,GA, USA. At Digitivy, Vik leads advisory services around adopting cloud computing and devops best practices with a specific focus on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Oracle Cloud platform. He is a certified cloud architect experienced in leading cloud transformation and devops adoption for Fortune 50 Retail clients. Previously, Vik was Google Cloud advisory and business transformation consulting practice director at CloudSherpas (acquired by Accenture), IT transformation consulting leader at Akamai, technology consulting leader at Deloitte and Capgemini. Vik holds an MBA from Emory Goizueta business school, MS-Information Systems Arizona State University and BS-Computer Engineering, India.
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Sergey leads global engineering, data analytics and quality assurance teams at Catchpoint, improving the performance and resilience of the Catchpoint platform.
Sergey holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Prior to Catchpoint, he spent his career at companies trying pushing the boundaries of what’s possible on the internet, with roles at Coyote Point, Fortinet, and Interface Masters/Niagara Networks. At these roles, Sergey developed products which improved network performance, security, and application delivery, garnering several patents. Now at Catchpoint, Sergey is using his previous experience of what can go wrong with networks and applications to make the internet more resilient.
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Ravs Kaur, Chief Technology Officer, is responsible for leading Product and Engineering at Uplevel. Prior to Uplevel, she spent a decade in the Developer Division at Microsoft building tools to make the every-day lives of developers easier. Following her time at Microsoft, she was at Tableau and led the core Visual Analytics teams to help people discover and share their insights through data. She brings together her empathy of developers, passion for data, and experience with engineering leadership challenges in her current role at Uplevel to build the product she always wanted for her own teams. Ravs lives in the Seattle area with her husband and two kids who share her aspirations of becoming a pianist someday. They are usually found planning last minute travels and love experiencing different cultures.
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Mike is a VP/Principal Architect for Cloud Technology Partners and heads up their DevOps practice. Mike was the CTO for MDot Network who won the 2010 AWS Global Startup Challenge. Mike is also the author of "Architecting the Cloud: Design Decisions for Cloud Computing Service Models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)".
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As the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Launchable, Kohsuke Kawaguchi is passionate about solving problems developers face every day. Famous for creating Jenkins, Kohsuke was most recently the Chief Technology Officer at CloudBees. He is an O’Reilly Open-source Award recipient, Japan OSS Contributor Award recipient, JavaOne Rockstar, and a Rakuten Technology Award recipient. Before joining CloudBees, Kawaguchi was with Sun Microsystems and Oracle, where he worked on a variety of projects and initiated the open source work that led to Jenkins.
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Mickey is a regional partner at Solvdand teсh enthusiast with 20 years of experience. He has a deep expertise in system architecture, development process & management (inc. Java-based web and middle-tier applications), TestOps, DevOps, planning & implementing automated QA ecosystems, cloud development and deployment. Mickey coaches and motivates development, DevOps & QA teams to ensure high productivity and teamwork, helps each individual achieve his potential. He can be reached at [email protected]
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TK Keanini brings nearly 25 years of network and security experience to the CTO role. He is responsible for leading Lancope’s evolution toward integrating security solutions with private and public cloud-based computing platforms. TK is also responsible for developing the blueprint and solution that will help Lancope’s customers securely benefit from the promise of software-defined networking (SDN). Prior to joining Lancope, Keanini served as CTO for nCircle, driving product innovation that defined the vulnerability management and configuration compliance market. Before joining nCircle, he served as Vice President of Network Services for Morgan Stanley Online, where he built and secured a highly available online trading system. Previously, Keanini was a systems engineer at Cisco, advising top financial institutions on the design and architecture of their data networking infrastructure. Keanini is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
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With nearly twenty years in the tech world, Abby Kearns is a true veteran of the industry. Her lengthy career has spanned product marketing, product management and consulting across Fortune 500 companies and startups alike. As Executive Director of Cloud Foundry Foundation, Abby helms the ecosystem of developers, users and applications running on Cloud Foundry, and works closely with the Board to drive the Foundation’s vision and grow the open source project. Prior to Cloud Foundry Foundation, Abby focused on Pivotal Cloud Foundry as part of the Product Management team at Pivotal. She spent eight years at Verizon where she led Product Management and Product Marketing teams dedicated to the early days of cloud services. In her free time, Abby enjoys indulging in food and wine, and spending time with her husband and son.
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Diana Kearns-Manolatos is a senior manager in Deloitte’s Center for Integrated Research, Deloitte Services LP. She draws on almost 15 years of work analyzing market shifts and emerging trends across industries. Her areas of specialty include research and insights focused on technology, digital transformation, cloud, cyber security, AI and the future of work.
Emmet Keeffe
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Emmet B. Keeffe III joined Insight Partners as a Venture Partner and Founder of Insight IGNITE in 2014. He is passionate about helping large global companies cross the Digital chasm by delivering market insights from the firm’s investment process and global awareness of transformative software technologies that are core to Digital transformation. Emmet is leveraging his vast personal network to build Insight IGNITE, a Digital acceleration program that provides bespoke Innovation Briefings, an Innovation Roundtable Series, and Growth Advisory Board opportunities to global business and technology leaders. Emmet also brings extensive experience as an entrepreneur to advise portfolio CEOs on sales, marketing, and business development growth strategies.
Passionate about peace and sustainability, Emmet is also Co-Founder and Chief Acceleration Officer of The Contentment Foundation, an organization with a vision to provide tools to one billion children globally for sustainable wellbeing, inner peace and mental clarity. He is also a Strategic Advisor to Peace One Day, Impact Profile, a Board Trustee at the Royal Society Southeast Asia Rain Forest Research Programme (SEARRP) and a Resident Expert at the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford.
Emmet holds a BA from the University of California at Berkeley. He lives in London and enjoys his family, walking in Hyde Park with his Italian Spinone dogs, traveling, photography, skiing, driving Radical SR3’s and playing the drums.
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Michael Kehoe is an engineer who prides himself on architecting reliable, scalable infrastructure. He specializes in maintaining large system infrastructure as demonstrated by work his work LinkedIn (applications) and at The University of Queensland (networks). He possess high-level skills in maintaining Linux and Windows servers and their respective infrastructure services. Previous work experience includes building small satellites at NASA and writing thermal environments software at Rio Tinto.
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Before becoming the Chief Strategy Officer, Greg Keller previously served as the Chief Product Officer at JumpCloud for over four years, helping create and bring the first cloud directory service to market. Keller co-founded BlipSnips (acquired by Atigeo, Inc.), an early-stage software development company and a graduate of the Techstars accelerator program in 2010. Keller is a career product visionary and executive management leader with over two decades of product management, marketing, and operations experience ranging from startups to global organizations.
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Amanda Kelly currently serves as a Product Director at Snowflake focused on all of Snowflake’s analytical product experiences – including Streamlit. Prior to Snowflake, she was the Co-Founder and COO of Streamlit (acquired by Snowflake). Amanda has also led product and operations for several stealthy Google X projects and at Zoox (acquired by Amazon). Amanda has an MBA from Stanford GSB and holds several AV-related patents.
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Brian Kelly is head of Conjur engineering at CyberArk, where he creates products that add much-needed security and identity management to the landscape of DevOps tools and cloud systems. Brian is passionate about software, building teams, cyber security and DevOps.
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Brian J. Kelly is CEO of CloudBolt Software, provider of the leading self-service hybrid cloud management platform. Prior to CloudBolt, he held leadership roles in enterprise sales for leading technology companies such as IronKey, Imation and Xerox.
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Jim Kelly is System Engineering Manager at Juniper Networks. Jim has spent the last two decades working in the federal space and has been with Juniper Networks for more than 15 years.
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Paula is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Syntasso; her previous roles include Senior Director of Tanzu Global Education at VMware, Senior Director of Platform Services EMEA at Pivotal and Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of CloudCredo.
Working in the IT industry for over 20 years, Paula is passionate about community, diversity and inclusion and has a range of speaking experience including DevOpsDays, DevOps Enterprise Summit, Velocity Conference, QCon and the LeadDev conference.
Paula is part of the organising committee for Kubernetes Community Days UK and DevOps Days London, and also organises the London Platform User Group.
Thip Keovilay
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Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.
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Oded Keret is Rookout's Product lead. He's an experienced software engineer and product manager.
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Induprakas (Indu) Keri is currently SVP Engineering/GM Hybrid Multicloud overseeing Nutanix’s industry-leading hybrid cloud infrastructure for both on-premises and public cloud deployments. He previously served as the Chief Product Security Officer (CPSO) at Nutanix where he led Nutanix’s company-wide product security efforts. As a long-time C-level executive, Indu has served as Chief Operating Officer at Limelight Networks, CTO at SunGard and CISO at Intuit. Currently, he is also a visiting scholar at MIT where he works on FinTech and Space.
Indu started off his career as an engineer at Silicon Graphics (SGI) where he implemented his dissertation work into the high-end parallelizing compiler delivered by SGI. His other work experience includes stints at McKinsey & Company, BEA Systems and Oracle. He has a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell.
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Jessica Kerr is a developer of development systems working as Lead Engineer for Atomist where she writes automations and automation infrastructure in TypeScript, Clojure, and whatever else is needed. She is a back-end developer who believes the front-end is most crucial. Jessica speaks at conferences in the US and Europe.
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Doug Kersten is the Chief Information Security Officer at Appfire. He is an industry veteran and strategic, tactical, and hands-on leader who has been instrumental in instilling a positive security culture within fast-paced organizations. Kersten brings more than two decades of security leadership experience to his role, having led IT and security programs for some of the world’s top financial institutions and law firms. Kersten is helping Appfire continue to lead the way in Cloud security for the Atlassian ecosystem and software developer community at large.
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Jeff Keyes is the VP of product marketing at Planview, leading a team of value stream and digital product development marketers and evangelists. An accomplished executive who has been involved in almost every aspect of the software development lifecycle, including development, architecture, product management, development management, application delivery, and consulting, Jeff brings his experience from Microsoft, Atlassian, and several startups to Planview. A passionate evangelist of enterprise agility, Jeff has helped many organizations transition from waterfall to continuous delivery methodologies. Jeff is a founding board member of the Value Stream Management Consortium, where Planview is a corporate member. Jeff was also a finalist for DevOps.com's 2019 Top Evangelist.
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Jeffrey Keyes is director of marketing at Plutora.
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Nikfar Khaleeli is vice-president of product at Blue Cedar, leading mobile app integration platform.
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Asif Khan is a Tech leader with Amazon Web Services. He provides technical guidance, design advice and thought leadership to some of the largest and successful AWS customers and partners on the planet. His deepest expertise spans application architecture, containers, devops, security, machine learning and SaaS business applications. Over the last 12 years, he’s brought an intense customer focus to challenging and deeply technical roles in multiple industries. He has a number of patents and has successfully led product development, architecture and customer engagements.
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Daniel Khan is Director of Product Management at Sentry
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Umair Khan is a Marketing Director at Stacklet, developers of the industry-first cloud governance as code platform based on the open source Cloud Custodian project. Umair has over 15 years of experience in infrastructure, cloud, and open source software management, holding positions at industry-leading companies, most recently at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (via Scytale acquisition) and CA Technologies (now part of Broadcom).
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Yousuf Khan is the vice president of technical marketing for the Cisco Data Center & Provider Connectivity organization, which helps customers select, deploy and manage their data center and cloud networking infrastructure.
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Salma Khanchouch is a senior Java developer at Finastra, where she works on the firm’s open development platform, FusionFabric.cloud. She has been passionate about technology since her days as student. Away from her keyboard, Salma enjoys building cool things with Lego and spending times with friends.
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Ajay Khanna is chief marketing officer at Mezmo. He has over 20 years of experience in the enterprise software industry. He has a long track record of building marketing organizations, scaling high-growth companies, and bringing new products to the market. Previously, he led marketing organizations as CMO of Explorium and vice president marketing at Reltio. He holds an engineering degree from Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology and an MBA in marketing and finance from Santa Clara University.
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Aran Khanna is the CEO and co-founder of Archera.ai, a Cloud Resource Automation platform that enables organizations to operate dynamically in the cloud. A Harvard Computer Science alum & former Amazon engineer, Aran is focused on understanding the consequences of the increasing role of technology in our lives, particularly in the realm of personal privacy and the impact of machine learning systems.
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Since 2007 Divyesh has been leading the technological and product vision of DronaHQ. Divyesh heads the Product and Development team at DronaHQ. He has nearly two decades of experience in technology. He is a passionate techie and helps define product strategy to address enterprise customer needs - from small businesses to large enterprises.
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Nataliia Kharchenko is a Technical Writer at Cleveroad. It is web and mobile app development company in Ukraine. We are focused on helping startups, small, and medium businesses create competitive and winning software. I enjoy bringing a digital world closer to people and writing about technology, mobile apps, innovations, and progressive management models.
Nikhil Khedlekar
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Nikhil Khedlekar manages DevOps and Application Delivery at Vitech Systems, the world's leading provider of benefits administration software. Nikhil has over 15 years of experience in development, management and delivery of world class software solutions across various business verticals including Corporate Banking, Investment Management, Insurance, Billing, Pension Benefits, and Security Reference Data Management. Nikhil stumbled upon the DevOps movement while implementing Agile software delivery for a leading insurance provider and has been a fan ever since. Prior to Vitech, Nikhil worked on designing data warehousing solutions for some of the leading financial institutions in the world.
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Pavel specializes in cloud architecture. Over 13 years of experience in IT. Started at DataArt as a developer, but eventually became a Solutions Architect, having fallen in love with cloud solutions and architecture. GCP Data Engineer and AWS Solutions Architect certifications.
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Abdul has started his blogging journey recently, though He has over 18+ years experience in managing IT Projects. The intent is to showcase the learning’s and many successful experiments around various Information Technology areas like: Agile practices, DEVOPS, Delivery Excellence, Process & Service improvements, Quality assurance, Quantifying efforts, robust reporting and Communication etiquette.
Currently as a Program Manager overseeing multiple projects at a large bank, He hopes through his writings, to accelerate the pace of learning and provide a workspace to develop a collaborative community.
His favorite past time is reading and is now cultivating a serious vocation of writing fiction, an adventure which sadly becomes a lesser priority due to time constraints.
http://askhurram.com/
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Cillian Kieran is the CEO and founder of privacy company Ethyca. A background in software engineering and two decades spent leading large-scale data programs for Heineken, Sony, Dell, and Pepsi convinced him there was a better way to build privacy deep into large technology systems. Now, Ethyca powers privacy for global brands like Away, Slice, and AspireIQ.
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Rick Kilcoyne is chief technology officer at CloudBolt Software.
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Randy Kilmon
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Vice President, Engineering – Black Duck Software
Randy Kilmon is VP of Engineering at Black Duck Software where he helps define product strategy and technical roadmap for multiple teams focused on OSS Compliance and Security solutions. The Black Duck Hub won the ‘Best New Security Offering’ award at MassTLC in 2015.
In his role, he is an advocate for open source adoption both internally and externally, and has championed initiatives to release code to open source across the organization. Randy has over 15 years of experience in the open source world, working at such companies as Sun Microsystems, where he was active in the Java community.
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Dale Kim is the Senior Director of Technical Solutions at Hazelcast and is responsible for product and go-to-market strategy for the in-memory computing platform. His background includes technical and management roles at IT companies in areas such as relational databases, search, content management, NoSQL, Hadoop/Spark, and big data analytics. Dale holds an MBA from Santa Clara, and a BA in computer science from Berkeley.
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Gene is a DevOps enthusiast, as well as a multiple award winning CTO, researcher and author. He was founder and CTO of Tripwire for 13 years. He has written three books, including “The Visible Ops Handbook” and “The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win."
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Gene is a multiple award winning CTO, researcher and author. He was founder and CTO of Tripwire for 13 years. He has written three books, including “The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win,” “The Visible Ops Handbook” and the upcoming “DevOps Handbook.”
Gene is a huge fan of IT operations, and how it can enable developers to maximize throughput of features from “code complete” to “in production,” without causing chaos and disruption to the IT environment. He has worked with some of the top Internet companies on improving deployment flow and increasing the rigor around IT operational processes. In 2007, ComputerWorld added Gene to the “40 Innovative IT People Under The Age Of 40” list, and was given the Outstanding Alumnus Award by the Department of Computer Sciences at Purdue University for achievement and leadership in the profession.
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Joe Kim is the executive vice president of engineering and global chief technology officer at SolarWinds, responsible for the overall technology strategy, direction and execution for SolarWinds 30+ IT management products and systems. Previously, Kim was the general manager of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise’s Transform business unit responsible for product strategy, management, engineering and execution of five new, innovative products in the IT Operations Management (ITOM) space, and the CTO for HP Software’s Application Delivery Management (ADM) and ITOM businesses responsible for leading the development of transformational technologies and forward-thinking ideas. He has held other executive leadership roles at General Electric, Berkshire Hathaway and several start-ups. Kim holds a Bachelors in Computer Science, and Criminology and Law Studies from Marquette University.
Rob Kim
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Robert Kim is Presidio’s Chief Technology Officer. He is responsible for defining and driving Presidio’s technology investments that shape our full portfolio of service capabilities. He has over 20+ years of experience evaluating IT trends and advising clients on what technologies will create market differentiation and most relevant to invest and deploy.
Prior to joining Presidio in 2016, he held leadership positions at technology management and consulting firms, with roles in sales engineering, business development, operational excellence and financial management.
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Andre King is on the partnerships team at Rootly (YC S21) where they build an incident management platform on Slack. They help hundreds of companies like Squarespace, OpenSea, Grammarly, and more. Previously he was at AWS, Salesforce and Slack.
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Krista King (she/her) is a Product Manager at mabl, where she’s empowering quality teams to build faster with confidence. She’s passionate about building products with purpose, harnessing a diverse background in quality engineering, design, and software development to create people-centered test automation solutions. Outside of work, Krista is a mentor with Big Brothers Big Sisters of America and can be found helping children build interpersonal skills and self-confidence.
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Eran Kinsbruner is a mobile development leader and veteran and has been in the dev & test industry since 1999. The creator and author of the quarterly Digital Test Coverage Index, and co-inventor of the test exclusion automated mechanism for mobile J2ME testing at Sun Microsystems, Eran serves as a prominent resource for every step of the app development cycle. As an influential blogger and speaker at global conferences like StarEast, Eurostar Automation Guild and QAI Quest, Eran’s expertise has proven outstandingly valuable to developers and testers at organizations large and small. At a community level, Eran founded Meetups in both Boston and Israel to empower, educate, and bring together local dev/test experts, and launched a LinkedIn Group with over 5,400 mobile developers and testers from all over the world. Most recently, Eran authored a book titled, "The Digital Quality Handbook," which offers intel on integrating quality into every step of the development cycle to help dev & test teams meet rising consumers standards for mobile and web applications. Currently, Eran is the Mobile Technical Evangelist at Perfecto, the leading cloud-based web and mobile quality lab, and was formerly the CTO for Mobile Testing at Matrix, and managed technical teams at Qulicke & Soffa, Sun Microsystems, General Electric and NeuStar.
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Josh is the DevOps security lead for the UK and North Europe at CyberArk, a position he has held since 2017. Prior to this he has held a number of managerial and solutions architect positions at firms such as Opsview, iomart Hosting and Namesco Limited.
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I lead the internal practice of security for LogRhythm. My teams include: governance, risk and compliance (GRC), application security (AppSec), security operations center (SOC), and physical security. This concentration in security practice, tools, and operations enables the team and I to ensure that the we provide a safe foundation to build the security platforms of the future while protecting employees, systems, and ultimately our clients who will use our products.
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Daniel (Dan), Managing Director and Co-Founder of Techstrong Research, is a consultant, IT industry analyst and thought leader focused on how emerging technologies such as AI, machine learning and advanced analytics are impacting businesses. Dan is particularly interested in how businesses use these emerging technologies to alter their approaches to information security, governance, risk and ethics. Dan provides advisory services directly to leadership at technology vendors that design and deliver security solutions to the market. He assists them in aligning their solutions with enterprise requirements. Dan is viewed as an expert in understanding security solutions and mapping them to the complex needs of businesses across industries.
Prior to co-founding Techstrong Research, Dan was managing director at Hurwitz & Associates, an analyst and consulting firm. At Hurwitz & Associates Dan led research on a variety of studies and reports in the areas of data and AI, modern software development, security and multi-cloud computing.
Dan earned his B.A. in Political Science from Union College in New York and a J.D. from Boston College Law School, where he focused on emerging corporate strategies and intellectual property. As an attorney, Dan represented start-ups, cloud computing ventures, early stage startups as they sought funding.
Dan is a co-author of Augmented Intelligence: The Business Power of Human-Machine Collaboration (CRC Press, 2020), Cloud for Dummies (John Wiley & Sons 2020), and Hybrid Cloud for Dummies (John Wiley & Sons, 2012).
Ganesh Kirti
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Ganesh brings 18 years of innovation and product development experience in security technologies at high growth companies. At Palerra, he drives all engineering, architecture and technical operations functions.
Most recently, Ganesh was Senior Director of Engineering for Oracle within their Identity Management and Security products division. At Oracle, he conceived & built the security platform, which is the foundation upon which Oracle Public Cloud, Oracle’s Fusion Middleware and Fusion Applications are built. He has been the chief security architect for over 100+ products at Oracle. Prior to Oracle, Ganesh was Chief Security Architect at Corio (acquired by IBM), an early pioneer in applications hosting and delivery.
Ganesh has a Masters of Science in Computer Science from Western Michigan University. He holds multiple patents in application and data security, and is an active participant in security standards councils, as well as various open source initiatives and communities.
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Principal Consultant with Infosys and 15 years of experience in leading projects relate to DevOps, SRE, operations resiliency tooling and automation
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David Klee is the Founder and Chief Architect of Heraflux Technologies. He is a Microsoft® Data Platform MVP, VMware® vExpert, consultant for Pavilion Data Systems, and educator at SQLibrium.com.
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Charlie Klein is an application security analyst at Synopsys where he’s highly involved in operations relating to container security and secure DevOps practices. He has supported go-to-market activities for Coverity and Black Duck OpsSight, which analyze source code in different ways to find software vulnerabilities. Additionally, Charlie leads product marketing efforts for Synopsys eLearning, an online application security training solution that helps development teams learn about—and implement—best practices for secure coding.
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Peter Klimek is Director of Technology within the Office of the CTO at Imperva, a market leader in edge, application and data security. Klimek helps global customers protect their applications, data and websites from security threats through all stages of their digital journey. Prior to Imperva, Klimek held roles at Kaspersky, TransUnion and Zebra Technologies as a solutions architect, security analyst and engineer.
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Kevin Kline is a Head Geek, noted database expert, and software industry veteran. As a 13-time Microsoft Data Platform MVP and with 35 years' experience under his belt, Kline is passionate about improving the quality of life for Microsoft database professionals, their organizations, and their customers.
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Steven Kling has 26 years of experience in IT and software development, including eight years as an administrator, consultant, and app designer in the Atlassian ecosystem. He currently is Head of Engineering at Appfire, a company that makes team collaboration software to help workflow.
A graduate of Texas A&M University and former Captain in the United States Army, Steven served two combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq and is a recipient of the Bronze Star, the Combat Action Badge, and the Joint Services Commendation Medal.
He lives in the greater Austin, TX area with his wife Kelsey and twin boys, Everett and Elliott.
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Alexey Klochay is a product manager at CircleCI, the leader in continuous integration and delivery for developer teams. He is also the founder and CEO of Wizard on Demand, a company that creates engaging and original technical content. He likes jazz, mountains and caffeinated beverages of various types.
Donna Knapp
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Sean Knapp is the founder and CEO of Ascend.io. Prior to Ascend.io, Sean was a co-founder, CTO and chief product officer at Ooyala. At Ooyala Sean played key roles in raising $120 million, scaling the company to 500 employees, Ooyala's $400 million+ acquisition, as well as Ooyala's subsequent acquisitions of Videoplaza and Nativ. He oversaw all product, engineering and solutions, as well as defined Ooyala's product vision for their award winning analytics and video platform solutions. Before founding Ooyala, Sean was the technical lead for Google's legendary Web Search Interface team, helping that team increase Google revenues by over $1 billion. Sean also developed and launched iGoogle, the company's popular, customizable home page. Sean has both B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from Stanford University.
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Tobi Knaup is the CTO and co-founder of D2iQ, the company that helps organizations through their cloud native journey across a wide-spectrum of cloud native services such as container orchestration, data services, machine learning and data science. He was one of the first engineers and tech lead at Airbnb. At Airbnb, he built large parts of the infrastructure to scale the site to millions of users and hired a world class engineering team. Tobi is the main author of Marathon, the world's first open source container orchestrator. He also co-created KUDO, an open source toolkit for building Kubernetes Operators.
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Lance Knight is COO of ConnectALL, a software value stream management company, noted for its ability to accelerate software development and increase productivity. His responsibilities include sales, sales operations, customer success, and technical support. Previously, he held SVP/VP roles at LeadingAgile, Tasktop Technologies, and Accept Software, specializing in field operations, sales development, and customer success. Lance started his IT career with a large aerospace manufacturer where he learned about lean manufacturing and systems thinking. He’s a published author of books and white papers on leadership, software development, and software sales.
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Jon Knisley is a principal for automation and process excellence at FortressIQ. He consults with companies in leveraging process intelligence to jumpstart and scale their automation and transformation programs. Before his current role, he served as the chief architect for intelligent business automation at the Defense Department's Joint AI Center.
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Focussed on Containerized infrastructure automation processes, Alex has over 10 years experience in full stack development and had more of a business focus before that. He has worked for small startups and established high traffic projects. In his various roles he took responsibility for application architecture and infrastructure design. Taking this experience, he specialized in Devops with a focus on Security in 2016 and never looked back since. Alex was also one of the daredevils who put Kubernetes 1.0 in production. Alex is actively involved in the open source community around Kubernetes. Drop me an email if you want to chat about DevOps.
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Tal Knopf is Vice President of Engineering with 2bcloud, a leading multi-cloud cost optimization managed service provider for cloud natives from early stage to unicorns. He has more than 15 years experience in DevOps and development in large companies and startups such as Coralogix, Cloudinary, Akamai, Verint, and Gilat Satcom.
In his previous positions, Tal has taken full ownership of the integrations cycle, contributed to company knowledge bases, and served as the technical escalation point of contact for complex problems. He’s skilled in Docker, Elastic Stack (ELK), Helm, Kubernetes, Bash, Python, and TCP/IP Integration, and even writes his own code.
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Ken Knox is the Director of Cloud Consulting at Synoptek. He is a technology visionary with over 25 years of experience working with a broad range of emerging information technologies.
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Puneet joined Rocket Software in 2018 as the Vice President of Quality and DevOps and was promoted to the President of the Application Modernization Business Unit in 2023.
In his time at Rocket Software, Puneet has held multiple leadership roles leading the Quality and DevOps and Product engineering teams and has been instrumental in standardizing Rocket Software’s Quality and DevOps toolchain.
Along with having touched nearly every Rocket Software product at some point during his tenure at Rocket Software, he also helps drive initiatives like Rocket.Build, Community Connectors and acquisition integrations.
Before joining Rocket Software, Puneet held leadership roles at Dell EMC, RSA, and CA and spent over 10 years in the identity and access management space. Puneet serves as a president on the board of a nonprofit focusing on community and culture. Puneet's love for community service keeps him busy outside of Rocket Software.
Puneet holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Northeastern University.
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Tal Kol is co-founder of Orbs. Before Orbs, Tal co-founded Appixia, a mobile app startup acquired by Wix.com, and was the head of mobile engineering at Wix.com. He is an expert in blockchain applications and former head of engineering in Kin by Kik Interactive. Tal is an open source enthusiast, contributor to the React ecosystem and conference speaker. He holds BSc summa cum laude in computer engineering from the Technion and is a veteran of an elite section of the IDF 8200 unit.
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Tim Koopmans, Director of Load Testing at Tricentis, is a performance testing expert dedicated to making load testing accessible to everyone. Tim is co-founder of Flood IO, a cloud load testing platform designed for DevOps (Flood IO is now part of Tricentis). He also developed Ruby JMeter, a Ruby-based DSL for building JMeter test plans. Prior to Flood, Tim spent more than ten years as a performance and development consultant for companies across retail, finance, telecom, and government sectors. Tim also served as an Australian Army Officer for 10 years.
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Sonya Koptyev is the Director of Evangelism at Twistlock. She has been driving community efforts across various development technologies since the early days of SharePoint and .NET. Sonya worked on building the Office developer community and the Microsoft AI developer community and bringing the latest in bleeding edge technologies into the hands of developers. As part of Twistlock, Sonya is looking to bring the world of secure cloud native development into the hands of every developer, ensuring that they can make the most of the best cloud native technologies in a secure way.
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Jack Korabelnikov wrote his first computer program when he was 10. Another 18 years later, after success in the role of senior engineer at Orbitz.com he transitioned into management. He still enjoys the tech side of things and continues to tinker with cool new tech. He is presently leading the development of the Service Delivery Platform at HERE (former Nokia/Navteq) which is the underpinning of the company's next generation backend platform.
Prior to that, he was the VP of Engineering at Guaranteed Rate leading the company’s technical evolution and the buildout of next-gen mortgage products. He also played a key role at Orbitz Worldwide in rolling out agile and was the main driver behind the continuous delivery and DevOps adoption across the organization.
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Arseny Kostenko is the Senior Vice-President of Small Business Initiatives and Co-Founder at FISPAN. Arseny ensures the company builds products and solutions that enable users to focus more on their business and customers and not on banking and accounting operations. Arseny is an experienced entrepreneur who has previously launched several mobile applications prior to joining FISPAN and is also a Co-Founder of a project management app for startups and innovators. Arseny is passionate about innovation, marketing, gamification, elegant product design, functional programming, and building cross-functional teams that can launch products.
Since the inception of FISPAN, Arseny has led multiple strategic and innovation initiatives for the Product and Engineering team. He is also the author of FISPAN’s patent-pending contextual banking technology.
Arseny holds a Computer Science degree from Odessa National Polytechnic University.
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Nik Koutsoukos is the Vice President of Marketing Strategy at SolarWinds. He’s a seasoned enterprise IT executive with deep knowledge and experience in the observability and monitoring sectors. He has extensive hands-on expertise developing and rolling out go-to-market strategies for a variety of B2B solutions. Prior to SolarWinds, he held positions including Chief Marketing Officer at Catchpoint and Vice President of Product and Solutions Marketing at Riverbed Technology. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and master’s degree in Marketing.
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Jonah Kowall is the Vice President of market development and insights at AppDynamics, helping drive the company’s product roadmap and vision, while developing entry into new markets and providing valuable technology and business insights to fuel the accelerating and broad-based demand for the company’s Application Intelligence Platform.
Jonah comes to AppDynamics with a diverse background including 15 years as an IT practitioner at several startups and larger enterprises focused on infrastructure and operations, security, and performance engineering. These included running tactical and strategic operational initiatives, going deep into monitoring of infrastructure and application components. In 2011 Jonah changed careers, moving to Gartner to focus on availability and performance monitoring and IT operations management (ITOM). His research focused on IT leaders along with CIOs along with speaking at many conferences a year. Jonah led Gartner's influential application performance monitoring (APM) and network performance monitoring and diagnostics (NPMD) magic quadrants and research as a research vice president.
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Hubert Kozacz is a Python developer for STX Next. With a master’s degree in computer science from the Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie, Hubert is an expert in Full Stack Python + Django, and has a Solid knowledge of jquery and bootstrap and react.
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David Krakov brings 10+ years of unique experience in sophisticated algorithms, virtualization, storage and data innovation. David started his career in an elite intelligence unit of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) as a chief architect of large-scale multidisciplinary projects. Following his military service David joined storage start-up XtremIO (acquired by Dell EMC) as a team leader, and following the acquisition served as a senior architect. David was also a founding member of the Advanced Development team of XtremIO, responsible to drive product and development innovation within XtremIO and design the next generation of All-Flash Storage.
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Dima Kramskoy is a Senior Cloud Architect at DoiT. A talented technical leader, he has decades of experience as a Software Engineer and DevOps consultant, and has spent the last five years focusing on cloud architecture and delivery. Dima specializes in Distributed Systems, SOA, DevOps and Quality Assurance, and in his spare time can be found cooking, fishing or traveling the globe.
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Amir Krayden, CEO and co-founder of AIOps platform Senser, is a veteran of observability and analytics for complex distributed environments. Before Senser, Amir was an early employee of DriveNets, where he oversaw network infrastructure for the largest global telecommunications companies as VP Research and Architecture. He previously led R&D for an elite group of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) developing hardware, firmware, and software for embedded devices.
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Peter Kreslins is a seasoned technologist who played multiple roles in multinational companies, and has led product teams from market fit to dominance. More recently, he adventured into the startup business by co-founding, with two other long-time co-workers, a company named Digibee. The new venture aims to rewrite how system's integration is done. Besides writing code, he is an excellent leader with great business acumen. He has a bachelor degree in Computer Science from University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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Sundar Krish is a serial tech founder and is currently the CEO & co-Founder of DevSecOps startup Sken.ai. Before Sken.ai, Sundar was the CEO & Founder of a successful Industrial IoT startup called waygum.io. Before his venture into startups, he was a distinguished architect at Cisco, responsible for various DevOps and security architectures. He has worked in tech in the bay area for around 20 years.
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Subramonian is an IT professional with several years of expertise in software development, automation, Release/Deployment, Cloud and DevOps, IoT, and AI/ML with a strong background in MS technologies and open source. He is passionate about unlocking Enterprise challenges to define Cloud and DevOps enterprise strategies and is currently working for UST UK.
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My name is Santhosh Krishnan, and I serve as a Technical Lead specializing in Microservices, with a keen focus on Core Java, Web Services, Cloud Computing, and API development. With over two decades of experience in software development, design, and architecture, I bring a wealth of expertise to the table.
I have profound expertise in Spring Boot, Reactive Spring, GraphQL, and a range of other enterprise technologies within the Java ecosystem. Throughout my career, I have had the privilege of contributing to several Fortune 500 companies, including US Bank, MasterCard, IBM, Verizon, Virgin Mobile, CVS Health, and Telus Communications, among others.
I hold the titles of Sun Certified Enterprise Architect and Sun Certified Programmer for the Java Platform. My academic credentials include a Post Graduate Diploma in Systems Management and a Master’s Degree in Physics.
In the past two years, my focus has been on developing complex enterprise banking applications using GraphQL with Spring Boot 3, powered by JDK 17. Through this course, I aim to leverage my extensive experience to significantly enhance your understanding and skills in GraphQL within a Spring Boot environment.
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Karthik Krishnaswamy is director of product marketing at NS1. He is responsible for driving marketing initiatives for enterprise DNS/DHCP/IP address management. He is an experienced product marketer with a proven track record of developing and commercializing solutions that deliver network services and network management. Prior to NGINX, Karthik held similar positions at NGINX/F5 Networks, Cisco Systems and Nimble Storage, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company.
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Ray has a 24+ year enterprise security career with executive leadership roles in Corporate Development, Marketing and Sales at several leading firms, including Check Point Software, Proofpoint, Websense, and Voltage Security. In 2017, Ray founded and became CEO of Tugboat Logic Inc, a security assurance platform that leverages advanced technology and embedded guidance to automate and simplify security management. Tugboat Logic helps clients prove compliance and transact more effectively. To date, the company has raised over $15M in venture capital and leads its market with more than 400 enterprise clients, over 20 strategic audit and solution partners worldwide.
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Michael Krueger currently works as the Senior Director of Application at NowSecure, holding over 20 years of experience in cybersecurity and digital forensics. Michael focuses on adversarial emulation in evaluation of mobile systems for use in high-threat environments.
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Alex Krug is the CEO and co-founder of Baton. Previously in his career, he was the Head of Business Development & Strategic Initiatives at Behance, the leading online platform to showcase and discover creative work. As a founding member of Behance, Alex served as Vice President until Adobe acquired Behance in 2012. He is an early investor and advisor to Juxtapose, Pattern Brands/Gin Lane, Shake (acquired by Legal Shield), Raden, Prefer, Pinto, VTS & Honest Buildings (acquired by Procore) – among others.
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John Kucera is Senior Vice President of Product Management for Einstein Automate. He is responsible for Einstein Chatbots, Flow, and Einstein Next Best Action. John also drives the Einstein Automate vision across the Salesforce Platform, Mulesoft, and Salesforce Industries, enabling end-to-end automation, integrated across any system. John earned his BS in Electrical Engineering at Northwestern University, and his MBA in Business at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Keith Kuchler is the Vice President of Engineering (Software as a Service) at SolarWinds. In his position, Keith strategically leads his team to meet customer needs, critical business objectives, and profit and revenue growth through operational efficiency and innovation. Keith has broad expertise in helping to develop agile and disciplined engineering operations—from startup to broad charter global organizations—and a consistent track record of successful delivery of complex products and solutions. Before assuming the role of VP of Engineering, Keith served as the Senior Director of SolarWinds Engineering, leading engineering for Pingdom, Loggly, AppOptics, Papertrail, Pingdom Server Monitoring, TraceView, and Librato. Previously, Keith served in various roles at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, including as Director of Global Software Engineering: HPE Propel; Engineering Group Manager: HP Propel R&D & Converged Cloud User Experience; and Solution Architect.
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Srinivas Kudipudi works with HCL Technologies as Lead Engineer working with various DevOps tools including Azure Cloud, Azure DevOps (VSTS), AWS, Ansible, GitHub, Jenkins and other Devops tools and practices.
Daria Kulikova
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Daria Kulikova is a Junior Marketing Specialist at Xopero Software and GitProtect.io - the most professional GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Jira Backup & Disaster Recovery Solution. She has a degree in linguistics and a big translation background in different areas, including IT, technology, economics, politics, linguistics. She is a fan of self-improvement and the phrase “It is never too late to study'' is her motto. In her free time she likes rollerblading, long walks with family, inspiring films and books.
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Amol Kulkarni leads CrowdStrike’s product and engineering, with responsibility for the definition and delivery of CrowdStrike’s product and platform vision and roadmap. With this vision as their foundation, Kulkarni and his global team develop and deliver cutting-edge and user-friendly products to protect customers and stay ahead of adversaries.
The long list of industry-leading innovations under Kulkarni spans the company’s highly rated Falcon Prevent™ next-gen AV, the integration of intelligence into Falcon X™, the CrowdStrike Store opening trusted third-party applications to customers, and Falcon Fusion™, a foundational workflow platform.
Kulkarni’s dedication to building a culture based on bottom-up innovation and collaboration across geographical and organizational boundaries results in a true “one team” approach to cybersecurity. He also developed CrowdStrike’s Software Development Lifecycle to spur customer-focused innovations while ensuring adherence to long-term architecture and design parameters.
Kulkarni also serves as a member of the board of directors of build.security.
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Girish Kulkarni has 18+ years of experience in Information Technology. Apart from driving DevOps implementations, his areas of expertise include BPM (business process management), solution architecture and design, software quality management, technology evaluation & implementations and his areas of interest include DDD (domain driven design) and cloud technologies.
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Ambuj Kumar is the CEO and co-founder of Fortanix. Prior to founding Fortanix, Ambuj was lead architect at Cryptography Research Inc. where he led and developed many of the company's security technologies that go into millions of devices every year. Previously, he worked for NVIDIA where he designed world's most advanced computer chips including world's fastest memory controller. He has Bachelor of Technology from IIT Kanpur and Masters of Science from Stanford University, both in EE.
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Naveen Kumar is Vice President, Technology Innovation at Aricent. Currently he leads innovation practice on Development Productivity areas. Development Productivity practice focuses on Intelligent Automation and Modern Architectures. Intelligent Automation is achieved by applying AI/Ml techniques to DevOps, Intelligent Testing and Exponential Agility and Modern Architectures for software products are realized by latest technologies of edge computing, containers, micro services, serverless and blockchain technologies.
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Pradeep Kumar is the Co-Founder & CEO of TotalCloud.io, a first-of-its-kind minecraftesque interactive and immersive visual console for cloud management and monitoring. Prior to founding TotalCloud, he founded, architected and led redBus.in, a SaaS-based application that has revolutionized bus operations in India.
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Sushil Kumar is head of continuous testing business at Broadcom, responsible for engineering and product management. He has over 20 years of experience in creating market leading enterprise software products.
Uday Kumar
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Uday has overall 12 years of Software Industry experience various he played various roles ( J2EE Developer, Designer, Project / Release Manager ) with companies like IBM GS and GE. Currently he is working as Product and Engineering Manager for Addteq where is designing and delivering DevOps and ALM solutions for various customers. His passion at work is streaming process and automation which helps companies for quality, predictable and meaningful software release cycles.
He is certified product manager ( from AIPMM ) and Certified Scrum Master.
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Vikash Kumar is a manager working at Tatvasoft Australia, a software development company.
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Prateek Kumar Asthana is an experienced DevOps professional with a Java development background and has extensive experience in Agile and DevOps implementation in projects.
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Anil is a Subject Matter Expert in Quality Engineering & Testing Services at AgreeYa Solutions. With extensive experience in continuous testing, he helps organizations enhance software quality by adopting shift-left and shift-right testing strategies, integrating QA Ops into CI/CD pipelines, and leveraging AI-driven automation. Anil’s expertise enables teams to identify defects early, minimize manual testing efforts, and accelerate release cycles while ensuring a seamless user experience. He is passionate about driving innovation in testing methodologies to improve software delivery speed and quality.
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:**Praveen Kumar Mannam is a thought leader in the IT sector with 15 years of experience transforming business operations, fostering innovation, and enhancing operational performance in environments with enterprise-level technology. He is working as a Senior Release Manager with a focus on Business Technology Data and Analytics. From concept to launch, he has successfully delivered numerous complex, mission-critical software, infrastructure applications, and product releases for Fortune 100 technology companies with success.
He has significant experience in software and infrastructure Release/Program Management, specifically Data Warehouse, Reporting, and Analytics, Data Management, Data Privacy/Security/and Compliance Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotic Process Automation, IT audit, and Sox control. In addition, he contributed to developing creative, cutting-edge business apps that use AI and machine learning to help with critical corporate functions like finance, sales, and marketing.
Praveen Mannam is an accomplished strategist, mentor, and technologist with a wide range of experience managing various creative projects. He has a tremendous passion for mentoring high school and college students to cultivate innovative and entrepreneurial mindsets. In addition, he coaches Non-Profit startups, particularly those that are involved in the EdTech sector, to help the underprivileged.
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Lucky Kumar Sappa is a software engineer at HCL Technologies, working with Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab, Jenkins and other DevOps tools and practices.
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Ekambar Kumar Singirikonda is the Director of DevOps Engineering at Toyota North America. He has cultivated a reputation for excellence throughout his career, consistently leading teams to achieve remarkable results and driving transformative change within organizations.
His expertise spans various domains, including DevOps, DataOps, Data & Analytics, cloud engineering and Edge compute engineering, positioning him as a trusted authority in the industry. He has successfully implemented cutting-edge automation solutions, revolutionizing operational landscapes across businesses.
Ekambar says "In recognition of my contributions, I've been honored with prestigious awards such as the Inspirational DevOps Leadership Team Award and Quality Excellence Award. I've also shared my insights through published works like "Customer Satisfaction Vs Customer Experience in the Digital Age", "Emerging Patterns in Development Operations," and “Ensuring Compliance and Governance in Cloud-Based DevOps Practices”.
Priya Kumari
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Priya engineers content for enhancing customer experience & manifesting organizational excellence. With 9+ years of experience, she writes an array of topics on artificial intelligence, web-development, technology, blockchain, marketing, web monetization, startup, entrepreneurship, machine learning, emerging technology, cloud, Kubernetes, software development, cryptocurrency, business, data science, B2B Marketing, FinOps, FinTech, Banking, and Finance.
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Haresh Kumbhani leads Zymr’s solution architecture and CTO. A hands-on technical leader and serial entrepreneur, Haresh bring decades of complex product development and deployment experience. He has successfully developed multiple $100M+ software product lines for enterprises and Silicon Valley startups.
Olga Kundzich
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Olga Kundzich, co-founder of Moderne, has extensive experience building enterprise technologies at Dell EMC and Pivotal, including application delivery management and data protection solutions.
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Thomas Kunnumpurath is the vice president of systems engineering for Americas at Solace where he leads a field team across the Americas to solution the Solace PubSub+ Platform across a wide variety of industry verticals such as finance, retail, IoT, and manufacturing.
Prior to joining Solace, Thomas spent over a decade of his career leading engineering teams responsible for building out large-scale globally distributed systems for real time trading systems and credit card systems at various banks.
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Leon Kuperman is co-founder and CTO at CAST AI. Formerly Vice President of Security Products OCI at Oracle, Leon has 20+ years of experience spanning across companies such as IBM, Truition, and HostedPCI. He founded and served as the CTO of Zenedge, acquired by Oracle in 2018.
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Tytus Kurek is product manager at Canonical, the publishers of Ubuntu, for OpenStack and Kubernetes with a primary focus on the telco industry. Prior to joining Canonical, Tytus held positions at Pegasystems and Antenna Software in engineering roles. He holds a PhD in cloud computing and a Master of Science in Telecommunications.
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Anner Kushnir has over 20 years' experience in various research, development and executive management positions. Mr. Kushnir joined AlgoSec in 2006 as head of R&D, leading the research, design, architecture and software development of the AlgoSec product suite. After 10 years of building the AlgoSec R&D department and its products, Mr. Kushnir moved into the new role of VP of Technology, where he now works with AlgoSec's strategic customers and technology partners. Prior to joining AlgoSec, Mr. Kushnir held several R&D positions at high-tech start-up companies. He served as a software development manager, lead algorithm researcher, and as a hardware and logic design engineer. Mr. Kushnir has a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. (both Cum Laude) in Electrical Engineering, and a B.Sc. in Humanities and Social Sciences (also Cum Laude).
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John Kutay is Director of Product and founding team member at Striim. He’s also the host of the ‘What’s New In Data’ podcast where he chats with data leaders on the latest and greatest developments in the data and analytics landscape. John has written and launched features that process billions of streaming events, allow users launch streaming pipelines from their cloud in a matter of clicks, and is hands-on helping Fortune 500 businesses build real-time data products. John Kutay studied computer science at San Francisco where he focussed on distributed systems and data visualization.
