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Sara Faatz is senior manager of the developer relations team at Progress. She has spent the majority of her 20+ year career in the developer space, building community, producing events, creating marketing programs and more. When she's not working, she likes diving with sharks, running and watching hockey.
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CloudSlang team member Levente (Levi) Bonczidai is a software developer working on HP’s new open source orchestration solution called CloudSlang. Levi gained extensive experience with DevOps, Docker and Continuous Integration solutions (CircleCI, Travis) sharing his experience by publishing several blog posts about open source integrations on DigitalOcean and CloudSlang’s own blog.
James Falkner
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James Falkner is a technology evangelist, teacher, learner, author and dedicated to open source and open computing. He works at Red Hat as a technical marketing director for Red Hat's cloud native application runtimes and loves learning from others, and occasionally teaching at conferences. He's been doing this for the last two decades, and is a Computer Engineering graduate of the University of Florida.
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Viktor Farcic is a senior consultant at CloudBees, a member of the Docker Captains group and an author of several books. He coded using a plethora of languages starting with Pascal (yes, he is old), Basic (before it got the Visual prefix), ASP (before it got the .Net suffix), C, C++, Perl, Python, ASP.Net, Visual Basic, C#, JavaScript, Java, Scala and more. He never worked with Fortran. His current favorite is Go. His big passions are microservices, continuous integration, continuous delivery, continuous deployment and Test-Driven Development (TDD). He often speaks at community gatherings and conferences (catch him at DevOps World | Jenkins World). He wrote The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit: Automating the Continuous Deployment Pipeline with Containerized Microservices and the Test-Driven Java Development books. His random thoughts and tutorials can be found on the CloudBees blog and also in his own blog TechnologyConversations.com.
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Mehran Farimani, Co-Founder and CEO of RapidFort, is a software engineer turned cybersecurity and AI solutions pioneer. Previously, Farimani founded Percipo, where he developed groundbreaking cloud-based machine-learning solutions that were installed in over 45,000 retail locations.
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Yoni Farin is CTO & Co-Founder of Coralogix. He has over 15 years of experience in software development, team and group leadership. Yoni specializes in big data and distributed systems.
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Dave Farinelli is a senior software engineer at X by 2, with more than six years of professional software engineering experience, with a specialty in providing enterprise-level DevOps solutions for healthcare and insurance clients. Farinelli holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Kettering University in Flint, Mich.
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Jason Farmer is the global director of professional services, CloudBees. Jason is an avid technologist and educational aspirant. Jason grew up developing at a small organization and ultimately had the opportunity to lead Fortune 50 organizations in technology best practices, process improvement and problem solving. Pairing a love of technology and problem solving with a desire to educate and empower others, Jason continues his campaign to explore the latest technology and gadgets and bring the best solutions to all types of organizations.
Leanardo Federico
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Leonardo is a DevOps enthusiast, as well as a Growth at Cloud Academy. With an Economics background, Leonardo is strongly passionate in web technologies and how these are fundamentally changing the world. He loves online marketing, software and chess. Always be reading.
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Joseph Feiman is the chief strategy officer at WhiteHat Security, leading application security provider. Feiman is responsible for WhiteHat’s overarching business strategy and vision, to further its success in empowering secure development and operations. Previously, Feiman worked for 18 years at Gartner, where he was a Gartner research vice president and fellow. During his tenure at Gartner, Feiman served as a trusted resource for security executives and professionals across the globe, co-founding the application security market category. Prior to joining WhiteHat Security, Feiman was chief innovation officer at Veracode for three years, helping to bring the company to its culmination.
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Scott Ferguson is the former Managing Editor for Light Reading and its sister publications Security Now, Enterprise Cloud News and TU-Automotive. He's also edited and written for InformationWeek and eWeek.
Mark Ferlatte
Paul Ferrill
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Ivan Fetch is a site reliability engineer at Fairwinds, the Kubernetes enablement company offering software and services for organizations to run secure, reliable and scalable Kubernetes infrastructure.
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Danica began her career as a software engineer in data visualization and warehousing with a business intelligence team where she served as a point-person for standards and best practices in data visualization across her company. In 2018, Danica moved to San Francisco and pivoted to backend engineering with a derivatives data team that was responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure that processes millions of financial market data per second in near real-time. Her first project on this team involved Kafka Streams – she never looked back. Danica now works as a Developer Advocate with Confluent where she helps others get the most out of their event-driven pipelines. Outside of work, Danica is passionate about sustainability, increasing diversity in the technical community, and keeping her many houseplants alive.
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Scot Finnie was the editor-in-chief of Computerworld for 10 years. He was a Windows operating system expert for the prior 10 years. He torture-tested laptop PCs. He is a journalist, technologist, reviewer, columnist, editor, manager.
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David started as a malware analyst at AVAST in 2010. He handled malware analysis, signature creation and back end data analysis, and has published several researches. One of David’s research papers, which focused on improving malware detection capabilities, was presented at Computer Antivirus Research Organization (CARO) Workshop and Anti-Virus Asia Researchers (AVAR) conference in 2016. David has been with Trend Micro since 2017, focusing on vulnerability research as well as cloud and container security. Most recently he presented on the security risk of using containers at Security Fest 2019.
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Julian Fish is the director of product management for Micro Focus’ release and deployment solutions. Julian has almost twenty years’ experience in the IT industry, starting in quality assurance before working in domains as diverse as infrastructure management, database administration, software development, release engineering, and IT operations. In recent years, Julian has helped many large organizations transition their development and release management processes from traditional to continuous delivery based approaches.
Kevin Fisher
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Kevin Fisher is the President and principal strategist with Dartmouth Research & Consulting/DRC Mexico SA de CV, an international consulting firm. His work focuses on the information needed by organizations to shape their performance and build the resiliency needed to face business challenges. Kevin has over 25 years experience in technology and strategic planning.
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Michael Fisher is product manager at OpsRamp. Michael is a creative and collaborative PM with a passion for observability, performance monitoring and machine learning technologies.
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Stephen holds a M.S. in Management from The Georgia Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech as well. Stephen has worked as a practitioner and leader across business, design and technology domains for enterprises and brands like PepsiCo, AutoTrader, Cummins, Chick-fil-A, the American Cancer Society, the CDC, Macy's, GM, Home Depot, Lowe's, and others. in the domains of business, technology and user experience for more than 20 years. Stephen is a pluralist who is passionate about UX, APIs, DevOps, service design, servant leadership, engineering craft and 80s/90s Hip Hop. When not on the job, Stephen spends time with his beautiful family and hits the mountain bike trails that surround Atlanta.
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Rebecca Fitzhugh is a 12-year industry veteran who serves as Principal Technologist at Rubrik. Prior to joining Rubrik, she freelanced as a consulting architect for almost 6 years. During that period, Rebecca worked with various federal agencies, foreign government, enterprise, and service provider customers across multiple verticals. This work included designing and implementing data center infrastructures, private and public cloud architectures, and subject matter expertise.
She began her career in the US Marine Corps, acting as a data systems analyst. During her 5 year service, Rebecca specialized in cryptographic systems and eventually managed a Force level data center that provided services to the entire Pacific fleet. She graduated from Penn State University.
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Scott Fitzpatrick is a Fixate IO contributor with 7 years of experience in software development. He has worked with many languages and frameworks, including Java, ColdFusion, HTML/CSS, JavaScript and SQL.
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Ex-dev, ex-ops, ex-young.
Working in a traditional financial services firm trying to spread the good word.
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*Rodrigo is the Senior Partner and Global Service Lead for Platform Services in IBM Consulting where he oversees the portfolio managed services offering for AWS, Azure, IBM & Google clouds as well as private clouds.
Prior to joining IBM he spent time at Mckinsey and Accenture, where was Managing Director of the Accenture Cloud Platform (ACP) in charge of Architecture, Product Management and its Innovation Center from 2013-2020.
He spent time working at Cisco on their cloud management product and was the Founder and CTO of newScale (acquired by Cisco) where he pioneered the concept of service catalog-driven self-service provisioning.
Rodrigo co-authored the first book on service catalogs, “Defining IT Success Through the Service Catalog”
Michael Floyd
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Product Manager with 13+ years of tech industry experience, excelling at connecting business needs with technology, driving innovation and strategy. CKA, CPM, CSM, AWS CP, homelabber, former CTO.
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John Fogarty is an advisory software engineer at Base2 Solutions, a software engineering services firm that helps companies in highly-regulated industries, including medical devices, aerospace and defense, develop reliable and complex interconnected systems. John has more than two decades of experience in software development and management across the full technical stack.
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Erik Fogg is the co-founder and chief revenue officer at ProdPerfect, where he oversees revenue and growth. Having initially studied mechanical engineering and political science at MIT, Erik transitioned from a consulting role with Stroud International to an operations and sales executive position in the startup HelmetHub, until he co-founded ProdPerfect in 2018.
In his free time, Erik interludes as a political author, business book ghost-writer, and consultant for private equity and biotech. Erik ambitions to use artificial intelligence to help large organizations and societies consistently identify truth from falsehood, and make better fact-based decisions.
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Jessie D'Amato Ford is Topcoder Open Manager and Senior Topcoder Community Lead
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Matt is Co-Founder and CTO of Gremlin. Previously, he was a Senior Platform Engineer at Salesforce, where he led the charge to bolster the experience of viewing and editing each and every record. Before that he improved the reliability and customer experience of the Amazon Retail website, where he founded the ’Fatals‘ team which reduced the number of website errors by half in its first year.
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Ehsan Foroughi is CTO at Security Compass.
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Pedro Fortuna is the CTO and Co-Founder of Jscrambler. With extensive experience in academia and as a security researcher, Pedro has co-authored several application security patents. He is an active member of the AppSec community, contributing to OWASP and regularly speaking at events such as OWASP AppSec USA, DEFCON, and BSides SF.
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The DAOps Foundation is a non-profit organization (NGO) dedicated to promoting DevOps and AIOps worldwide.
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Brian Fox is co-founder and CTO of Sonatype, a member of the Apache Software Foundation and former chair of the Apache Maven project. As a direct contributor to the Maven ecosystem, including the maven-dependency-plugin and maven-enforcer-plugin, he has over 20 years of experience driving the vision behind, as well as developing and leading the development of software for organizations ranging from startups to large enterprises. Brian is a frequent speaker at national and regional events including Java User Groups and other development related conferences.
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Adam Frank is a product and technology leader with more than 20 years of Development and Operations experience. His imagination and passion for creating development and operations solutions are helping developers and innovations around the world. As Armory’s SVP, Product & Marketing, he's focused on delivering products and strategies that help businesses to digitally transform, carry out organizational change, attain optimal business agility, and unlock innovation through software.
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Joe Franscella is public and analyst relations professional by day and an accidental enterprise B2B technology enthusiast all the time. When he’s not serving the needs of his clients, he’s busy raising a family and generally attempting to enjoy as much time with them as possible. A former journalist and member of the Security Bloggers Network, he has written about topics ranging from sports to politics to crime to human interest to technology. He has been an infrequent contributor to publications such as USA TODAY, CSO Magazine and InfoSec Island. His opinions expressed here are his own. Reach him at [email protected].
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Roni Frantchi is a Co-Director of R&D at env0, an OpenTofu founding core team member and Technical Steering Committee member.
He also created the TerraTag, an open source project for tagging Terraform resources, among other contributions.
He’s an open source and cloud native zealot.
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Ruben Franzen is president of TOPDesk and has spent his entire career at the company. He joined the company 13 years ago as a sales representative, based in the company’s global headquarters in Delft, The Netherlands. His other roles included inside sales account manager, key account manager, and head of sales for TOPdesk US.
His areas of expertise include leadership, customer experience, sales and business development, and service management (especially IT service management, or ITSM).
Born in the Netherlands, Ruben was educated at Leiden University in Leiden, Netherlands (Psychology). He spent more than 30 years in the Netherlands before moving to the United States in 2017. Ruben speaks English and Dutch fluently.
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Mike Fraser is the co-founder, CEO and chief architect at Refactr. Mike started his career in the United States Air Force working on F-15 fighter jets weapon systems and later as a cybersecurity engineer. While on active duty, Mike started his first company when he was 19 years old; a retail computer repair store. Mike has since founded multiple tech companies and is a regular speaker at numerous industry events, including CRN, various Microsoft events, RedHat AnsibleFest, DevOps Days, and All Day DevOps. He has published several feature articles including in Redmond Channel Partners and appeared on the cover of Channel Pro Magazine. Mike is currently an adjunct instructor at Seattle Central College, teaching courses in Cloud, Cybersecurity and DevOps. He earned a bachelor's degree in application development from North Seattle College and has a master's degree in computer science from Seattle University. Mike aspires to be the world's coolest dad for his 5-year-old autistic daughter. In his spare time, he is creating an augmented reality app to help autistic children communicate.
Jessie Frazelle
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Jessie Frazelle is an independent consultant. She is a computer programmer who has worked at GitHub, Microsoft, Google, Docker and various companies and startups before that. She’s worked on a lot of open source projects in the container ecosystem as well as having projects of her own.
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Jessie Frazelle is an independent consultant. She is a computer programmer who has worked at GitHub, Microsoft, Google, Docker and various companies and startups before that. She’s worked on a lot of open source projects in the container ecosystem as well as having projects of her own.
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Jeremy is the Co-Founder & CTO of Allstacks. He is a software developer with a background in computer vision and a passion for creating and building things. Jeremy has more than 15 years of engineering, leadership and entrepreneurship experience. He offers his internal team and clients a wealth of knowledge on how to improve technical and business efficiencies.
Paul Fremantle
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Paul is an experienced open source software executive, who previously co-founded WSO2. As CTO he helped build WSO2 into a highly successful profitable Open Source company with recurring revenues of more than $45m, 600 employees and over 500 enterprise customers.
Paul has an MSc in computer science from Oxford University and a PhD from the University of Portsmouth, where his thesis offered a cloud-based approach to improving security and privacy for IoT systems.
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Bob Friday is vice president and chief technology officer of Juniper's AI-Driven Enterprise business.
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Jeff Fried, director of product management for InterSystems, is a long-standing data management nerd, and particularly passionate about helping people create powerful data-driven applications. Prior to joining InterSystems, Jeff served as CTO of BA Insight, Empirix and Teloquent, and ran product management for FAST Search and Transfer and for Microsoft. He has extensive experience in data management, text analytics, enterprise search and interoperability. Jeff is a frequent speaker and writer in the industry, holds 15 patents, and has authored more than 50 technical papers and co-authored three technical books.
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David Friend is the co-founder and CEO of Wasabi cloud storage company
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Jonathan Fries is VP Engineering and Digital Transformation at Exadel. Jonathan has 20 years of experience in software development and technology management. He brings a wealth of experience from product companies and consulting firms. This experience includes day-to-day development, product and project leadership, and strategic guidance of technology projects from conception to launch. Jonathan works with clients to guide their technology vision. In his project interactions, he oversees the planning and execution of all aspects of software development.
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Avi Froelich is a Senior backend developer at Logz.io. He is a tech lead developer with more than 10 years of experience, mainly in the Java and Golang echosystems. Avi is very passionate and enthusiastic about new technologies in the area of large scale distributed systems.
Scott Fulton
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Scott is the Founder and CEO of OpsCruise. He brings in several decades of executive management, product and sales experience. Previously, Scott was the EVP of Products & Corporate Development at Infoblox where he led the expansion into cybersecurity and the transformation to SaaS. Prior to Infoblox, he spent more than a decade as a GM/P&L leader of several infrastructure application businesses at HP Software and BMC. He also has early career start-up experience and on-the-ground roles in Europe and India. He holds a BA from the University of Michigan and a MBA from UC Davis
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Fondly and commonly known as an XP (eXtreme Programming) and Agile guru, Andrew is also an influencer in the world of enterprise transformation. His self-proclaimed passion is building great teams that build great software, with a focus on helping ISVs and IT organizations improve time to market, market responsiveness, predictability and quality. In his role as VP of products at ConnectALL, Andrew returned to his first love of being closely involved in product development.
Andrew is an active contributor to the Agile community. He is an established speaker and influencer and is a published author in Gantthead, Agile Connection and Agile Journal.
Andrew has 30 plus years of varied experience in consulting, management, product management and development. With a long history as an enterprise transformation expert, Andrew realizes the importance of transformation and how it is the first most critical activity to create the conditions for effective approaches to take hold and add value.
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Sal Furino is a Customer Reliability Engineer at Nobl9. During his career he's worked as a TPM, SRE, Developer, Sys Admin, and IT support. While not working he enjoys cooking, gaming, traveling, skiing, and golfing. Sal lives in Queens with his partner and has a BS in Applied Mathematics from Marist College.
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I am Adam Furmanek, and I am a professional software engineer with over a decade of experience. In my career, I worked with all layers of software engineering and multiple types of applications, including logistics, e-commerce, machine learning, data analysis, and database management. I am always interested in digging deeper, exploring machine code, and going through implementation details to better understand the internals of the technologies I use every day. That's why I like debugging, decompiling and disassembling the code to understand memory models, concurrency problems and other details hidden deeply inside. I work with Metis as DevRel on database guardrails solution.
