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Pradeep Padala is co-founder and CEO of Fylamynt.
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Juraci Paixão Kröhling is a seasoned software engineer, a Governance Committee member for the OpenTelemetry project, and an emeritus maintainer of the Jaeger project. With a strong focus on observability and open-source development, Juraci has delivered talks at conferences such as KubeCon EU, KubeCon NA, OpenSource Summit, Devoxx Belgium, FOSDEM, and various DevOpsDays. With deep expertise in distributed tracing and observability, Juraci empowers software engineers to optimize their applications and build reliable observability pipelines. Currently working at Grafana Labs, Juraci continues to shape the future of observability tools while passionately contributing to the open-source software engineering community. Outside of work, Juraci is a proud parent of three kids and finds solace in the hobby of sleeping, albeit occasionally interrupted by the delightful chaos of parenting responsibilities.
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Todd is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer at LinkedIn, tasked with keeping the largest deployment of Apache Kafka, Zookeeper, and Samza fed and watered. He is responsible for architecture, daytoday operations, and tools development, including the creation of an advanced monitoring and notification system. Todd is the developer of the open source project Burrow, a Kafka consumer monitoring tool, and can be found sharing his experience on Apache Kafka at industry conferences and tech talks. Todd has spent over 20 years in the technology industry running infrastructure services, most recently as a Systems Engineer at Verisign, developing service management automation for DNS, networking, and hardware management, as well as managing hardware and software standards across the company.
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Kelsie Pallanck is a senior content director at O'Reilly Media and the chair for both the Infrastructure & Ops Conference and the Open Source Software Conference (OSCON). Kelsie has over 15 years of event programming experience. Prior to joining O'Reilly Media, she was at MIT Technology Review where she was an event content producer. Kelsie lives in Somerville with her senior dog, Ruby.
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Patric Palm is an organizational management visionary and software entrepreneur. He began in leadership and organization as a leadership instructor within the Swedish Airforce. Since then, he has been involved with or founded several companies and NGOs. Today, his main focus is his role as CEO of Favro, an application for organization-wide Agile workflow management.
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Based in Brooklyn, NY, Sommer is a Senior Engineering Manager for Accessibility at Slack. Prior to her role at Slack, she led the iOS Accessibility team at Apple for four years as an Engineering Manager. Sommer has also worked at Twitter and startup Chorus Fitness. With a passion for accessibility, she has spent many years freelancing as an Accessibility Specialist. Sommer's academic background stems from psychology, arts and athletics, and is excited to develop software in those areas that is accessible to everyone.
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Girish Pancha is founder and CEO of StreamSets. A data industry veteran, Girish spent two decades at Oracle and Informatica leading their business intelligence and data integration products.
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Gnanaprakasam Pandian is chief product officer and co-founder of Ordr. He has more than 20 years of product and engineering leadership experience and is also a serial entrepreneur. Before founding Ordr, he was the chief development officer at Aruba, responsible for all of engineering and product management functions. Prior to Aruba, Pandian served as the head of engineering for Cisco’s multibillion dollar WiFi business unit. He graduated with a master’s degree in electrical engineering from IIT, Chennai, India and holds several patents to his credit in various networking technologies.
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Debarghya Pandit is a software engineer working with Technology Office in HCL Technologies. He has expertise in DevOps tools, Python and Java. Currently he is associated with DevOps COE, working on design and Development of DevSecOps solutions and tools.
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Dr. Rao Papolu is President and Chief Executive Officer of Cavirin Systems, Inc., a provider of continuous security assessment and remediation for hybrid clouds, containers and data centers.
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Shreyans Parekh is a Senior Manager at AppDynamics, where he manages go-to-market strategy across product releases and is focused on innovation in the areas of End User Monitoring (EUM), Cloud Migration and IoT. His writing has appeared in publications by Intuit, IBM Bluewolf, New Relic, Conga and the University of Michigan Ross School of Business.
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Brian Park is an engineering manager at Uplevel, an engineering insights company. He is responsible for managing the team of full stack engineers and sharing his own vision for a better developer experience to guide the Uplevel product. Prior to Uplevel, he was a performance engineer at Tableau. He lives in Seattle with his wife and loves to brew and teach others about makgeolli, a traditional Korean beverage.
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Alasdair “Ally” Parker is a Technical Lead at Redgate Software. He is passionate about code as well as how people interact with one another. Ally is a firm believer in doing things the right way, keeping things simple and constantly improving. To this aim, he keeps himself updated on coding techniques and new technologies as well as attending software craftsmanship roundtables and the annual coding dojo code retreat.
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Austin Parker has been solving - and creating - problems with computers and technology for most of his life. He is the Principal Developer Advocate at LightStep and maintainer on the OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry projects. His professional dream is to build a world where we're able to create and run more reliable software. In addition to his professional work, he's taught college classes, spoken about all things DevOps and Distributed Tracing, and even found time to start a podcast. Austin is also the co-author of Distributed Tracing in Practice, published by O'Reilly Media.
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Dr. Charna Parkey is a Data Science Lead at Kaskada, where she works on the company’s product team to deliver a commercially available data platform for machine learning. She’s passionate about using data science to combat systemic oppression. She has over 15 years’ experience in enterprise data science and adaptive algorithms in the defense and startup tech sectors and has worked with dozens of Fortune 500 companies in her work as a data scientist. She earned her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Central Florida.
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Lubos Parobek is VP of Products at Sauce Labs, leading product management and user interaction. His previous experience includes product leadership positions at organizations including KACE, Sybase iAnywhere, AvantGo and 3Com. Parobek holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Devin is editor-in-chief of ReHack Magazine at ReHack.com. Devin is especially interested in projects related to technology, startups, women in tech, the IoT and data security.
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Dawn Parzych is Director of Product and Solution Marketing at Catchpoint. She enjoys researching, writing and speaking about trends related to application performance, user perception, and how they impact the digital experience. In 15+ year career, Dawn has held a wide variety of roles in the application performance space at Instart Logic, F5 Networks and Gomez.
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Boris Paskalev is the CEO and co-founder of DeepCode. He has more than 15 years of industry experience in growing technology startups to above $1B, business/product development, R&D, global team management and lean operations. Boris has an executive MBA from TRIUM as well as MSc and BSc from MIT.
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Hitesh Patel began working with F5 Networks 9 years ago as a field systems engineer and today he is the director of product management for automation, orchestration and ecosystems. Prior to his currently role, he studied computer engineering and held positions at C I Host and Radware, Inc.
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Nasrullah Patel co-founded Peerbits, one of the leading web development company USA, in 2011. His visionary leadership and flamboyant management style have yield fruitful results for the company. He believes in sharing his strong knowledge base with learned concentration on entrepreneurship and business.
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Pritesh is a blogger and tech enthusiast from Azilen Technologies He likes sharing his knowledge in a wide range of domains ranging from AI, data science, emerging technologies, and much more. His work is featured in several authoritative tech publications.
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Ritesh Patel is Co-founder and VP of Product at Nirmata. He brings 20+ years of experience building and delivering enterprise software solutions. Prior to founding Nirmata, Ritesh held key technical and business positions at Brocade, Trapeze Networks, Nortel and Motorola. For the past few years, his focus has been on development for cloud-native technologies, and building related policy engines designed for DevSecOps teams.
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Sirish has cross-functional experience of 13+ years in accelerating zero-to-one launches and scaling growth-stage product expansion across Healthcare, e-commerce, and PrivacyTech.
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Brian Pawlowski has years of experience in building technologies and leading teams in high-growth environments at global technology companies. He is currently the CTO at DriveScale. Previously, Brian served as vice president and chief architect at Pure Storage, focused on improving the user experience for the all-flash storage platform provider’s rapidly growing customer base. As CTO at storage pioneer NetApp, Brian led the first SAN product effort, founded NetApp labs to collaborate with universities and research centers on new directions in data center architectures.
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Nathan Pearce is product development solutions architect within the Office of the CTO at F5 Networks. He has worked in fast-paced start-ups and multi-national enterprises, and draws on over 20 years industry experience across a broad range of competencies and verticals. Pearce as focused almost entirely on the automation and orchestration of Internet-based application delivery for the last 15 years. Since joining F5 in 2006, he has remained close to many industry innovations and is now a spokesperson and active blogger on DevOps, infrastructure as code, and application delivery topics.
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Ahana Pearl is a very creative writer and active contributor for mobileappdaily.com. She loves to share news and updates on various topics that brings great information to the readers.
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Well known as the “Cyber Guardian,” Kavya Pearlman is an award-winning cybersecurity professional with a deep interest in immersive and emerging technologies. Kavya Pearlman is the cybersecurity strategist at Wallarm, a global security company that uses artificial intelligence to protect hundreds of customers across e-commerce, fintech, health-tech and SaaS via their application security platform. She is also the founder of non-profit, XR Safety Initiative (XRSI). XRSI proactively addresses the cybersecurity risks and challenges by discovering novel cyber-attacks and establishing baseline standards in emerging technologies.
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Neil Pearson is a Principal Product Manager at OpsRamp. He is responsible for the market success of all event management and automation capabilities within the OpsRamp platform. He has held various IT Ops, product management, marketing and sales roles in tech companies and corporations over the past three decades.
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Paul Peissner is an Agile and DevOps enthusiast with experience in both the Dev and Ops IT environments. His goal is to help large enterprise organizations re-discover their inner start-up. He supports software-driven business-agility, encourages cross-discipline IT transformation and promotes organization-wide collaboration that can support a culture with the potential for “game-changing” innovation.
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Ori Pekelman is CPO of Platform.sh, the idea-to-cloud application platform, and is a co-founder of the company. At Platform.sh, he drives the engineering and design teams to deliver an incredibly robust, valuable and easy-to-use product. With a unique skill set combining technology and business development, he has a passion for helping startups reach success.
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Kris Pennella is Senior Manager for Regional Consulting Services and Practice Manager for Red Hat Open Innovation Labs, Red Hat.
Kris is an accomplished digital leadership executive with a track record of successfully launching emerging technology in global marketplaces. She translates technology into business strategy and increased concept to cash opportunities within new and existing product lines. Kris has developed and managed products with revenues of more than US$2B and led the product technology departments at three enterprise companies. An advocate of lean enterprise and product development, you can find Kris leading the North America Open Innovation Labs Practice, accelerating customer journeys toward digital leadership.
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Passionate about technology and open source software, Javier is the Chief Open Source Evangelist and Senior Director of Product Management at Perforce Software. He is responsible for technical thought leadership and advocacy for open source software while driving the OpenLogic by Perforce offering. Javier has been in the application development, open source, cloud, app security, AI, SaaS, and mobile industries for 25+ years. As a speaker and blogger, he has had the opportunity to present at industry events all over the world. Javier holds an honors degree in Computer Systems and an MBA.
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Tony Perez is a Cloud Solution Architect at Skytap, a cloud service to run IBM Power and x86 workloads natively in the public cloud. Tony has deep experience as a solution architect with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry in engineering roles in Sales, Customer Success, Cloud, Monitoring Performance, Mobile Applications, Professional Services, and Automated Software Testing. He began his career at Sequent Computer Systems and Oracle and has worked at Netscape, Mercury Interactive, Argogroup and Keynote.
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Tomislav Pericin founded ReversingLabs in 2009 and serves as chief architect leading all aspects of the company's product and services strategy as well as implementation. He has been analyzing and developing software packing and protection methods for the last eight years. As chief software architect, he has conceived and driven the development of such projects as TiCore, TitanEngine, NyxEngine and RLPack. Recently, he spoke at BlackHat, ReCon, CARO Workshop, SAS and TechnoSecurity conferences.
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Michael Perreault is Senior Security Solutions Architect for Cloud + Data Center Transformation, Insight. He has been with Insight for 10+ years and in information security for three decades. From advising businesses on governance, risk and compliance management to deploying solutions, he has a breadth of experience around protecting data and IT infrastructure from bad actors. Michael currently consults with Insight clients to help them create effective cybersecurity strategies.
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Jeremiah Peschka is a Technical Lead at Redgate Software. He has two decades of experience with database software as both a developer and DBA. Outside of work, he studies making systems software safe by construction. When he isn't at a computer, Jeremiah can be found wandering around with two corgis, playing guitar, or enjoying the sights around Cambridge, UK.
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Brad Peterson is vice president of marketing at Workspot.
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Julie Peterson is senior product marketing manager at Cycode.
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As the global CTO at TIBCO, Nelson Petracek is helping to shape the development of TIBCO's emerging technology platforms and products. With over 20 years of experience, Nelson works to deliver solutions for the next stage of digital business, drawing upon his deep knowledge of cloud, blockchain, low-code applications, microservices, and event processing. A strong technology evangelist, he works with customers to identify and define the appropriate use of various technologies and architectures, and advises on best practices and information delivery patterns. Nelson received his Bachelor of Commerce in Computational Science from the University of Saskatchewan.
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Dmitry Petrov is an ex-data scientist at Microsoft with Ph.D. in computer science and active open source contributor. He has written and open sourced the first version of DVC.org, a machine learning workflow management tool. Also, he implemented the Wavelet-based image
hashing algorithm wHash in open source library ImageHash for Python. Dmitry is working on tools for machine learning and ML workflow management as a co-founder and CEO of Iterative in San Francisco.
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Heather has spent the bulk of her career researching, writing and speaking on the latest digital trends, challenges and transformative technologies. Heather currently works as a Product Marketing Manager at Chef/Progress where she is responsible for evangelizing Chef’s solutions in the App Delivery space to clients, partners and fellow Chef’s. Prior to Chef, Heather held enterprise software marketing related positions at CA, Worksoft and CompuCom. When Heather is not either using software, thinking about software or writing about software you can find her hanging at home with her two schnauzers and dreaming about a beach somewhere.
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Peter Pezaris is the SVP of Strategy and Experience at New Relic. Prior to New Relic, Peter was the CEO and co-founder of CodeStream, a service that helps development teams discuss, review, and understand code. Prior to CodeStream, he was the CEO and founder of Glip, a team collaboration platform acquired by RingCentral in 2015, and Multiply.com, a social commerce platform acquired by Naspers in 2010. He also founded Commissioner.com, one of the first online fantasy sports platforms, which was acquired by CBS in 1999. A seasoned entrepreneur and tech executive, Peter is a recognized expert in the collaboration and social networking space, pioneering several of today’s most commonly used features in real-time messaging.
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In 2010, Alex Pezold founded TokenEx with a vision of creating the most secure, nonintrusive, and flexible data security solution on the market. Prior to founding TokenEx, Alex earned a master’s degree in computer science and information security through the CyberCorps program at the University of Tulsa. While working as a qualified security assessor with the PCI SSC, Alex first recognized the potential of cloud tokenization. This inspired him to use it as a scope- and risk-reducing technology to protect data in an increasingly privacy-focused world.
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Sid is a product manager at Akamai, focused on enabling delightful experiences for their developer base. He is currently focused on making Akamai an organic component of their user’s continuous integration workflows as well as making Akamai the go-to platform for any API traffic needs for customers.
As a PM, Sid loves to understand the why behind things. He is passionate about making decisions informed by customer stories and data.
Prior to joining Akamai, Sid spent a few years consulting tech companies in optimizing development lifecycles and a few PM years at Dell EMC launching the company’s first-ever subscription-based product offering aimed at hybrid cloud data centers. Sid holds a computer science degree from UT Dallas and an MBA from Duke University (he has particularly strong opinions on Duke basketball). In his spare time, Sid can be found trying to make an impression in local pickup soccer leagues around Boston.
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Ingo Philipp is on the product management team at Tricentis. In this role his responsibilities range from product development and product marketing to test management, test conception, test design, and test automation. His experiences with software testing embrace the application of agile as well as classical testing methodologies in various sectors including financial services, consumer goods, commercial services, healthcare, materials, telecommunications, and energy.
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Barry Phillips is responsible for Marketing and Product Management at Panzura. Panzura reduces the time to globally distribute large software builds and artifacts from hours to seconds. Barry was most recently the CMO of Egnyte and Wanova (acquired by VMware), where he led Marketing, Sales, and Business Development. Barry came to Wanova from Citrix Systems, where he was the Group Vice President and GM of the Delivery Center Product Group. Barry has held executive roles at Net6, Nortel Networks, Everypath, and Cranite Systems. He began his career in United States Naval Aviation where he logged over 1,000 hours in a P-3C Orion. Barry holds a Bachelors of Computer Science from the United States Naval Academy and a Masters of Computer Science from UCLA.
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Romaric Philogène is the CEO and co-founder of Qovery. He has 10+ years of experience in R&D, from the Ad Tech to the financial industry, and deep expertise in highly reliable and performant systems
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:**Szymon Piasecki is Head of DevOps at STX Next, the largest software house in Europe specialising in designing and
creating digital solutions in the Python programming language. The company has been operating since 2005 and cooperates with over 500 people through eight offices in Poland. STX's clients include leading international corporations, small and medium enterprises and the most innovative start-ups from around the world.
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Chuck Piercey is a Silicon Valley product manager with experience shipping more than 15 products in several different market segments representing a total of $2.5 billion revenue under both commercial and open source business models. Most recently he has been working for MayaData, focused on software-defined storage, network and compute for Kubernetes environments. Chuck occasionally writes articles about the technology industry.
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Matt Pillar is the VP of Engineering at OneSignal, where he leads the engineering team in building the next generation of the company’s customer messaging and engagement platform. Matt was previously part of Facebook, where he managed teams developing Facebook's real-time products including News Feed and Notifications. Matt also served as the CTO of Redbooth and the VP of Engineering at AeroFS (Y Combinator Summer 2010) where he was responsible for developing messaging products.
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I lead all Engineering for the Vault CDMS product line. We are building intuitive, performant and highly scalable enterprise products on the cloud.
Extensive experience in building multiple Cloud based software products at scale from the ground up. Vault CDMS is the 2nd team at Veeva that I have built for a product that will drive significant growth for Veeva. Prior to starting this team, I was had the opportunity to lead engineering for the CRM (Commercial) group. Quite exciting to be able to be part of that growth.
Building and growing geographically distributed teams to deliver products at scale.
Previously at Veeva I was leading engineering for Veeva Commercial product which is the industry standard CRM in the life sciences industry.
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Keith Pitt is the co-founder and CTO of Buildkite, the fastest way to reliably test and build software at any scale. Keith was previously a lead engineer at several Australian developer-first companies including Envato, Qantas and Pin Payments. He also built, launched, and sold Desktoppr to a private purchaser before teaming up with his Buildkite co-founders. As a big believer in the power of putting the right tools in the hands of developers, Keith is always looking to find ways to make software faster and more enjoyable. Outside of work, Keith is a proud new father, Perth resident, retired magician (don’t make him pull out his South Australian Young Magician of the Year award), and grower of avocado trees.
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Roshan Piyush is a security research engineer with Traceable.ai.
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Sam is a full stack engineer and serial entrepreneur with tech leadership and co-founder experience at multiple startups, including a Boulder, Colorado restaurant in 2014 and a Techstars-incubated software startup in 2016. Sam has been with ThreatX since 2018, where he now serves as Director of Engineering.
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Joshua Platt is currently vice president, products at SmartDraw Software in San Diego, California where he wears many hats—sometimes all at the same time. A writer, speaker, and occasional podcaster, he is passionate about helping DevOps teams communicate effectively and cohesively. You can often find him hurtling down single track on a mountain bike, just do not tell his life insurance.
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Brian Platz is the co-CEO and co-chairman at Fluree, PBC, a new decentralized app platform that will forever transform how business applications are built.
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Wolfgang Platz is founder and chief strategy officer at Tricentis. He brings over 20 years of technology experience to Tricentis. Wolfgang founded Tricentis in 2007 as a testing consultancy and laid the cornerstone for the development of our enterprise software testing product, Tricentis Tosca. Today, he is responsible for driving Tricentis’ vision for making Continuous Testing a reality for enterprise DevOps. Platz also oversees the delivery of product-related support and services to our customers.
Prior to Tricentis, Wolfgang was at Capgemini as a group head of IT development for one of the world’s largest IT insurance-development projects. There, he was responsible for architecture and implementation of life insurance policies and project management for several projects in banks.
Wolfgang holds a Master’s degree in Technical Physics as well as a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Vienna University of Technology.
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Keith Pleas is a technology & organizational leader who has spent more than 25 years building software products and consulting to industry on IT, management, architecture, automation, and software development. At Deloitte he is focused on bringing Platform Engineering capabilities to large IT organizations. His previous role was managing Accenture's enterprise Platform Engineering team enabling more than 1,000 application teams on a common engineering platform with continuous policy and security compliance. He has more than 200 published articles in international IT and software development publications and I have chaired and spoken at numerous conferences on all phases of IT with a focus on software development.
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John Pocknell is a senior market strategist at Quest Software. Based at the European headquarters in the U.K., John is responsible for developing and evangelizing solutions-based stories for Quest’s extensive portfolio of database products worldwide. He has been with Quest Software since 2000, working in database design, development, and deployment. John has spent over 18 years (including 12 years in Product Management) successfully evangelizing Toad to customers at conferences and user groups around the world. He blogs and has produced many videos for Toad World, the Toad user community, and has authored technical papers about Toad on the Quest Software website.
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Guy Podjarny is co-founder and CEO at Snyk.io. Guy was previously CTO at Akamai following their acquisition of his startup, Blaze.io.
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Art Poghosyan is CEO and Co-founder of Britive. Art is an entrepreneur with 20+ years InfoSec experience. Prior to Britive he co-founded leading Identity and Access Management (IAM) consulting company Advancive, acquired by Optiv in 2016. There, he shared the confidence of enterprise execs as they wrangled with protecting growing cloud landscapes
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David Politis is the founder and CEO of BetterCloud, where he oversees the day-to-day activities of the company and is responsible for the overall product vision and business strategy.
Before founding BetterCloud, David was an early employee of Cloud Sherpas (acquired by Accenture), a preeminent leader in cloud advisory and technology services. As the VP of SMB Solutions, David led Cloud Sherpas to become the leading cloud services partner to small and medium-sized businesses worldwide.
Prior to Cloud Sherpas, David was the founding employee and General Manager of Vocalocity (acquired by Vonage [NYSE: VG]), which he grew into one of the top providers of cloud PBX technology.
David is a native New Yorker and holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Emory University. He has contributed to TechCrunch, Mashable, VentureBeat, Forbes, The New York Times and others.
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Greg Pollock is a regular guy who wants machines to do his job for him. He works at ScriptRock, where he talks about the value of configuration monitoring.
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Gleb Polyakov is the co-founder and CEO of Nylas. Gleb studied Physics at Georgia Tech and enjoys chess, motorcycles, and space. Previously, he worked in finance and founded an IoT coffee company.
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Charlie started his career as an economist in the developing world before moving to Andersen Consulting. He was a senior executive at Sky until 2007 before leaving to found and run Simplifydigital in 2007. Simplifydigital was three times in the UK Sunday Times Tech Track 100 and grew to become the UK’s largest broadband comparison service. It was acquired by Dixons Carphone plc in April 2016. Charlie is the CEO of Plandek, which he co-founded with Dan Lee in 2018. Charlie is responsible for Plandek’s overall strategy and growth and works with clients and industry domain experts globally.
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Brian Pontarelli is a successful technology entrepreneur currently focused on solving login, registration, and user management challenges. Brian works with startup to Fortune 500 organizations struggling to address the complexity of secure CIAM as their businesses requirements evolve and user base scales from a handful of users to millions. He has an extensive knowledge of coding strategies as well as a hands-on understanding of the business needs of growing companies. Before Brian bootstrapped both FusionAuth and its sister company CleanSpeak, he studied computer engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder. After graduating, he solved complex technology challenges for companies like Orbitz, BEA, US Freightways, XOR and Texturemedia.
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Sean Porter is the creator of the Sensu project and the co-founder and CTO of Sensu Inc., a leader in open source monitoring. Sean is a seasoned systems operator and software developer with over a decade of experience in automating infrastructure. As CTO of Sensu Inc, he oversees the development of Sensu and works with users to better understand how Sensu can help them solve complex monitoring problems.
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Christian Posta (@christianposta) is a Chief Architect of cloud applications at Red Hat and well known in the community for being an author (Microservices for Java Developers, O’Reilly 2016), frequent blogger, speaker, open-source enthusiast and committer on various open-source projects. Christian has spent time at web-scale companies and now helps companies create and deploy large-scale, resilient, distributed architectures - many of what we now call Microservices. He enjoys mentoring, training and leading teams to be successful with distributed systems concepts, microservices, devops, and cloud-native application design.
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Beatrix Potter works as a tech blogger at BoomEssays and Academic writing services. Beatrix writes about news, events and technological advancements in the world of mobile app and web development. Alongside her writing, she has experience in JavaScript development and is an online proofreader at Essay Writer website.
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Mike Potter is co-founder and CEO of Rewind, a cloud data backup provider. Rewind is trusted by over 80,000 businesses to protect their data on platforms such as BigCommerce, Shopify and QuickBooks. A veteran entrepreneur, Mike has over 25 years of experience building solutions for the software, cloud and data analytics space, including tenures at Adobe and Mozilla. He earned his MBA from the University of Ottawa and his B.Eng in Mechanical Engineering from McMaster University. Mike currently resides in Ottawa, Canada.
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Evan Powell is the CEO and Co-Founder of StackStorm, a software company leading the third wave of operations automation and delivering the increased productivity of DevOps approaches to a broader market. StackStorm software is currently available via a private, invitation-only beta. Interested users can request an invitation at: www.stackstorm.com/beta.
Previously, as founding CEO of Nexenta Systems, Evan led the transformation of the storage industry towards a software defined future and achieved an excess of $350 million in partner sales. Prior to Nexenta, Evan was founding CEO of performance management software company Clarus Systems, now owned by Riverbed Technologies.
Evan was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” by the leading European venture fund Finaves in 2010 and was named one of the Top Ten Leaders in Storage in 2012.
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Vince Power is a Solution Architect who has a focus on cloud adoption and technology implementations using open source-based technologies. He has extensive experience with core computing and networking (IaaS), identity and access management (IAM), application platforms (PaaS), and continuous delivery.
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Malia leads communications for Heavybit, a 9-month program for developer startups.
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Tom Powledge has over 27 years of experience in cybersecurity. He is currently the Head of Cybersecurity Business at Verimatrix (Euronext: VMX), which is a prolific cybersecurity solution provider. Previously, he served as Chief Product Officer for Trustwave, a leading global provider of managed security services for medium and large enterprises. Tom formerly served as an operating executive and divisional general manager for Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cisco Systems and Symantec Corporation. In these roles, Tom was responsible for the creation, delivery and financial performance of a broad range of cybersecurity products and services. He attended the General Management Program at Harvard Business School and the University of California at Santa Barbara. He lives just outside Los Angeles with his wife and two sons. His daughter is a third year at the University of Chicago.
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As part of the Network and Security CTO Office R&D team, Sergio is involved in designing, architecting, and introducing new products to the market. Currently, he is involved in Tanzu Service Mesh, Zero Trust, SASE, SWG, and CASB initiatives, with a high emphasis on everything related to Policy. Prior to VMware, and after receiving his PhD, he founded Intelliment Security, where he built an intent-based vendor-neutral network security policy automation product and helped large enterprises.
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Rahul Pradhan leads Product and Strategy for Cloud Platforms at Couchbase. He has over 16 years of experience leading and managing both Engineering and Product teams across Storage, Networking and Security domains. Most recently, he led the Product Management and Business Strategy team for Dell EMC's Emerging Technologies and Midrange Storage Divisions to bring all flash NVMe, Cloud, and SDS products to market. Before that, he was a Principal Software Engineer at Nortel Networks.
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Gayatri is a serial technology entrepreneur, with a deep understanding of software design and engineering. She is expert in all things related to software security and cybersecurity compliance. Gayatri prides herself on creating and leading high calibre product management, design and engineering teams that excel in the rapid delivery of high quality software.
Kundan Prasad
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Kundan Prasad, a proficient digital marketing expert specializing in optimizing websites for search engines. With a keen eye for content design and a flair for crafting compelling website copy, Kundan brings a wealth of experience to the table. Presently, Kundan is making significant contributions at DATAGEN Internet Services Pvt. Ltd., where they are instrumental in driving success for the company's flagship products: Authkey.io, Buzzdial, and Thinkbuyget.
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Siddarth Prasad is a product manager at GlobalSign and is based in New Delhi, India.
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Josep Prat is Open Source Engineering Director at Aiven and has over 15 years of experience in software engineering with technologies like Java, Scala, Akka, and Kafka. He is an open source developer and maintainer of several OSS projects. Josep is passionate about open source program offices (OSPOs) and how we can make open source more sustainable.
Tejo Prayaga
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Tejo Prayaga is a high growth Product Management & Marketing leader helping build, scale and market products that make a difference through use of modern technologies like Data Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Microservices, Cloud Services and more. Startup geek, Ex-Cisco, MBA, and Toastmaster
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Anshu Premchand has 19 years of experience in architecting solutions, rationalizing & simplifying technology spaces in banking domain. Currently DevOps Architect with BITG, she has been Presales Solutions Lead at Banking Technology Group and Account Owner of one of TCS’s largest capital market accounts in my prior roles. Premchand has been a certified SAFe Agilist and TBEM practitioner. Her work has been published at several forums such as IEEE, JARDCS and ACM. She has set up some niche skill COEs, been editor of the BTG newsletter for 6+ years, done TBEM assessment for Tata Group companies and am prolific on FinTech Street portal of Campus Commune @ TCS. Premchand holds an M.Phil, MSc. and MCA in Computer Science.
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Brian is CEO of Kion
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Hannah Price is the Service Management Consultant and Knowledge Management Expert at TOPdesk UK, charged with guiding organizations to achieve service excellence by connecting the people and technology, empowering them to work better together.
Shayla Price
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Shayla Price creates and promotes content. She lives at the intersection of digital marketing, technology, and social responsibility.
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Vasantha Priya comes with 25 years of industry experience and has managed accounts and programs in application development & maintenance, product development & maintenance and quality assurance for various industry clients in banking, manufacturing, energy, resource, utility and retail. She was also instrumental in setting up various captive centers in India and has managed specialized testing services for automation and performance testing.
Thomas Pryce
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Tom Pryce is a technologically hands-on Communication Manager with Curiosity Software Ireland. His interests include Model-Based Testing, test data management, and Robotic Process Automation.
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Chris Psaltis is the co-founder and CEO of Mist.io, building an open source multi-cloud management platform. His background is in computer vision and machine learning. He loves open source, Python and solving problems. In the past he has worked as a researcher, software engineer and project manager.
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Brian Pugh, SVP of Engineering at Lucid Software, has extensive experience designing, developing, testing and deploying web applications. He has led and scaled development teams at several high-growth companies including HP, Sun Microsystems and FamilySearch.org. Brian holds a B.S. in computer science from Brigham Young University.
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Steve is the former chief information security officer of the White House Military Office and has more than 20 years experience in cybersecurity, national security, and intelligence. Prior to joining Twilio, Steve was the chief information security officer for Ionic Security and has served under two Presidents as a military communications aide. He spent 16 years in the U.S. Air Force as a cyber warfare officer, and deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Steve is an advisory board member for DEVCON client-side security, Savvy Cyber Kids and is an inaugural advisory board member for the National Technology Security Coalition.
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Yan Pujante is a passionate software engineer. He was a key part of the LinkedIn founding team where he designed and built much of the infrastructure that allowed LinkedIn to scale and succeed. Yan is also the author of glu, a deployment and monitoring automation platform.
Taylor Puleri
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Marty Puranik is the founder, president and CEO of Atlantic.Net, a leading cloud hosting solutions provider.
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Robin Purohit is the co-founder and CEO of Peritus.ai, the AI recommendation engine for support. He was previously a senior executive at BMC and HP Software, where he led multi-billion dollar business units for IT management, application delivery, and security.
