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Ace is currently working as a Staff Developer Advocate at TBD, building the future of the decentralized web. He is also the maintainer of the Made in Nigeria Open Source project shedding light on the growing tech ecosystem talent out of Nigeria.
With a background in engineering, computer science, and design, Grayson steers product direction at Uffizzi. He is passionate about discovering and building productivity tools that help product teams deliver software better, faster and cheaper. Grayson is particularly interested in tools that disappear into the background and seamlessly integrate into existing workflows.
Prior to Uffizzi, Grayson worked as a researcher in AI and Deep Learning.
From 2000 to 2018, Anshu was a founding member or early executive heading product and marketing of four successful Silicon Valley B2B startups.
Anshu received a B.E. in E&C from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, an MS in EE from Rutgers University, and an MBA from Kellogg, Northwestern University.
Currently she is the Head of Product at Yelp, leading a global team of product managers responsible for Yelp's user generated content and community. Prior to Yelp, Shubhansha led the consumer logging for MyFitnessPal where she has a patent pending for her recipe-matching algorithm.
Shubhansha believes in a multi dimensional career. She is a keynote speaker at several national & international conferences, a coach for women in product, and her work has been featured in Forbes, Fox.
I have worked at diverse companies and in various environments including startups and am currently at CarGurus.
I have experience in delivering products in the enterprise application space to small businesses by scaling technology teams.I have experience in delivering products in the enterprise application space to small businesses by scaling technology teams that effectively facilitate software development from prototype through hyper-growth curves that enable successful acquisitions.
He also co-organizes Developer Circles Lagos from Facebook, Open-Source Community Africa, and other communities empowering Africa and the world with Technology.
His achievements and years of experience are focused on advocating for communities, technologies and products.
He is presently the Program Manager for Global Developer Communities at Turing(turing.com).
Slick loves to associate with people who love making the world a better place.
I'm also one of the original creators of Apache Wayang (incubating), an open-source platform for cross-platform data processing. I have held executive data leader roles at Cloudera, Allianz, Evariant, e.on., and X, where I built big data cloud solutions, IoT, or AI to drive business outcomes.
Shai is an entrepreneur, author, blogger, open source hacker, speaker, Java rockstar, developer advocate and more. ex-Sun/Oracle guy with 30 years of professional development experience. Shai built Java virtual machines, development tools, mobile phone environments, banking systems, startup/enterprise backends, user interfaces, development frameworks and much more.
Shai speaks at conferences all over the world and shared the stage with luminaries such as James Gosling (father of Java).
They are currently focused on making backend web development in Rust more accessible to all developers. You can find them roaming around GitHub and various Discord servers, answering questions and spreading kindness.
Edidiong has given over 100+ talks at tech events worldwide and continues to play a significant role in building developer communities in Africa. She is a Certified Kubernetes Application Developer and Open Source contributor.
When she's not doing anything tech-related, she travels across the world, takes beautiful pictures, and analyzes movies.
He has authored various open-source dev tools millions of developers use worldwide, like his Shades of Purple code-theme or the corona-cli. Awais contributed code to NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter mission. “What an awesome example for developers,” said Satya Nadella, CEO Microsoft — featuring Awais’s contribution to NASA & corona-cli. He's a recognized open-source community leader as one of the 12 featured GitHub Stars.
He spends much of his time as an open-source contributor on various Terraform & AWS projects, such as Terraform AWS modules (downloaded more than 300 million times), Terraform-best-practices ebook, Doing serverless with Terraform (serverless.tf), Terraform Weekly (weekly.tf), and a few more.
He continuously experiments with technologies and tries to come up with new fresh ideas businesses will ask for soon. One of his latest projects is modules.tf, which aims to improve developer productivity for Terraform users.
In his entrepreneurial journey at Avataar, Gaurav has set out to deliver meaningful & delightful enhancements to visual experiences by deploying 3D Computer Vision and AI technological advancements. His passion for the consumer tech space started early and he desires to foster a nurturing ecosystem for the next generation.
Prior to joining Spin.AI, Sergiy worked in fintech startups and banking domains, managing teams of 100+ developers, administrators, and analytics.
With 15 years of experience in building world-class teams of engineers and creating innovative cloud products, Sergiy holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science. He is primarily focused on managing teams, cybersecurity, developing and scaling innovative cloud products.
Tim’s passions include Robotics, CPU/GPU Competitive Overclocking, Blockchain, Immersive, and Game Development.
Rodrigo is also an Engineer and has a Tech-MBA. He also is also a MIT Deep Tech Bootcamp alumni.
Helen is the author of the annual State of VSM Reports from the VSMC and the State of Availability Report from Moogsoft. She is a co-author of the book about DevOps and governance, Investments Unlimited, published by IT Revolution. She is a DevOps editor for InfoQ, and hosts the Day-to-Day DevOps webinar series for BrightTalk.
She is the co-founder and CEO of SafeStack, an experienced conference speaker, trainer, and regular panel member. She has spoken at various events such as BlackHat USA, NDC, RenderATL, and OSCON on application security, DevSecOps, secure development, and security mindset.
She is also the co-author of Agile Application Security and Security for Everyone.
Prior to Checkmarx, he held leadership and engineering positions at Time To Know, HPE, PicApp, and Bezeq.
He also hates and is allergic to cats, but has a 10-year-old daughter who loves cats, so he has 2 cats.
I'm a film nerd who loves to travel, enjoys spicy food, and brews her own beer.
The main role I have played during my career has been as a Director of Technology and Product. I have built technology and product teams of 100+ professionals who have created mission-critical SaaS products used by tens of millions of users.
Skilled in agile processes, software development, testing, devops, product management, user experience, cloud computing, strategy, lean startup, innovation, communication, finance
As the host of the "All About APIs" podcast and the API Hangout, I dive deep into the world of APIs, sharing insights and fostering connections in the developer community.
I'm also a course instructor for the API Platform Engineering Fundamentals program, where I empower the next generation of platform engineering teams with essential skills.
With over 10 years of experience crafting innovative digital solutions, I've honed my skills as an expert communicator, advocating for technology that drives positive change!
Additionally his team is creating new DevOps products that don't exist anywhere else. Solving complex SDLC equations maturity levels, and tactical roadmaps.
Jeff has launched new ventures and models as a tech foudner and consulting companies such as Omnicom, Google, Boston Beer, Nissan, Publicis Groupe, Unilever and AT&T. He spent several years as Centrica's senior advisor to deregulate state energy markets.
Jeff earned his MBA in Strategy from Kelley School at Indiana University Bloomington and a BA from Purdue University. He currently resides in Barrington, Illinois with his three sons and two rescue dogs.
She spent 20 years in leadership roles across engineering, product and data science, founded her own Fintech, and lead product roles for three acquired companies. She led engineering and product for financial web applications globally at Oracle.
Michelle serves on the Advisory Board for Northwestern’s MBAi program. She received an MBA from Kellogg and an undergraduate degree from Northwestern.
Previously, Haseeb held senior product management, marketing and engineering roles at Personal IT, Citrix Systems, Orbital Data, IP Infusion and Oblix. Haseeb holds an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California.
A .NET developer and Microsoft MVP, Emma spends her free time open water swimming, playing video games with her children and walking the in Danish Countryside with her rescue dog.
He’s an MBA from the European Forum of Navarra Business School, specialized in Deep Learning, Blockchain Revolution and Virtual Education.
His ideas, strategies and models have achieved international recognition and led him to be recognized 'Top 30' by the Silicon Valley Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (SVIEF). Felipe maintains that, ""True equality means enjoying the same freedoms; these are only achieved by acting and thinking in accordance with the will and inclusion of all the groups conform our society.""
Filip loves building products, but even more teams and systems that build great products.
Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with his wife and 3 kids, mountain-biking, skiing and traveling.
Pete has spoken internationally at numerous prominent security and developer conferences including DevOpsDays, All Day DevOps, OWASP AppSec, Security BSides, and DevSecCon.
I am the founder of CodXCrypt, which is an open-source community guiding people regarding open-source and project ideas.
Jeremy is a mentor to top-tier startup accelerators such as Alchemist and Techstars, and advises developer-focused startups such as Moesif (API intelligence) and OpenChannel.io (framework for app marketplaces). He is currently the Director of Product, APIs at Deserve.
Neil has a talent for being able to span the divide between engineering and management and can provide engineering a voice at the top table.
Neil is a natural engineer and is constantly looking at ways to make technology easier to use with the aim to reduce the cognitive load of engineering teams.
Neil is based in New Zealand, but travels to the US frequently.
DeveloperSteve has worked closely with developer communities as a Tech Evangelist and Advocate to develop and nurture the healthy developer and start-up culture that continues to flourish. With a passion for sharing knowledge DeveloperSteve is an established international speaker and loves geeking out with people everywhere.
As a Tech Evangelist and Advocate he has represented and worked with global companies such as Snyk, IBM, PayPal, Braintree, Xero, Telstra, Nginx, Gitlab and more.
Prior roles include serving as a global head of sales and global head of product management for multi-national organizations with hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue. These roles were in the technology industry and focused on cloud technology platforms & integrations.
Prior to these roles, I held various sales roles in a software startup and spent time in management consulting.
When not working, I enjoy spending time with my family and working on my golf game.
He has a strong interest in software engineering and software architecture and is the main proponent of the Picoservices Architecture. He holds a B.Eng. with honours in Artificial Intelligence & Software Engineering from the University of Edinburgh and an MBA from HEC Paris.
Previously he was the General Manager of Beat (leading Greek ride-hailer) and has worked in operations at Uber in Athens and Singapore, as a consultant at Accenture, as an analyst at UBS Investment Bank as well as in various startups in Greece and the UK.
Jayson has spent 20 years in software development building tools and systems at respected companies across different industries such as The MathWorks, DreamWorks Animation, Rackspace, and General Electric.
Alpesh focuses on delivering solutions with emerging technology and digital transformation. He advises on how to leverage the use of Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) across all parts of a business and helping companies transform their business models. Specifically focused on Sustainability, Artificial Intelligence and Data. Areas of focus include architectures such as Data Meshes, and Cloud Native applications.
I also write technical blog posts in Medium and speak at conferences around the world.
Mats are currently the CEO and co-founder of Arctos Labs – a company that develops ground-breaking cloud and edge optimization technologies and solutions.
Prior to the company’s journey on optimization, they conducted Research & Development assignments on 5G development for large global vendors and operators. In that role, Mats has been leading the development of service orchestration projects as well as embedded SW architectures.
I'm mostly recognized for creating Loto Punto, a kiosk system for micropayment automation, which provides a safer, faster and easier experience in banking, retail and government. Featured in Shark Tank 2023 (see: https://vimeo.com/800168904)
Business Manager and Data Science Specialist. M.S. in Computer Science at Georgia Tech (exp. 2023).
He is passionate about advocacy and outreach as a means to inform product and technology roadmaps by giving customers a voice, and looks at ways to apply technology strategically to increase business results.
In his spare time he enjoys all forms of cycling and building things.
His big passions are DevOps, GitOps, Microservices, Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment (CI/CD), and Test-Driven Development (TDD).
He often speaks at community gatherings and conferences.
He is a host of the YouTube channel DevOps Toolkit and a co-host of DevOps Paradox. He published The DevOps Toolkit Series and Test-Driven Java Development.
Together with Juliet Kelso and Grace Ng, she has co-founded Oasis Collective, a Women In AI Community which holds private brunches, dinners, and demo days.
To learn more about Gloria Felicia, please visit her website at www.gloriafelicia.com.
With 20 years in the Software Development industry, Stephen has served as an executive technologist, consultant, and entrepreneur in several organizations.
Stephen applies deep technical knowledge and business acumen to accelerate software development. As an avid fan of wearables and the decentralized internet, he frequently collaborates with businesses and developers in the community.
He managed remote and hybrid engineering organizations ranging from 25 to over 250 team members. Nir helps individuals and teams reach their full potential in rapidly growing environments and sustain high performance while building bridges between technology and the rest of the business.
He has over ten years of experience managing product and platform engineering teams in high-growth business environments across the globe.
Karthik lives in Austin, Texas, with his family. He believes in building communities and runs meetups and conferences in the city. He's on the organizing committee for several groups, including Devopsdays Austin, CloudAustin, Container Days, and All Day Devops, and is an accomplished author for LinkedIn Learning. You can find Karthik on Twitter @iteration1.
Currently, Philip is leading the engineering organization of a boutique cybersecurity consulting firm based in Los Angeles, CA.
While at Microsoft, Omri co-founded the ADO.NET team, was the General Manager of the Microsoft Application Server, and the GM of the Azure AppFabric and Access Control services.
At HPE, Omri was the VP/GM of the HP Cloud division, leading product and engineering for OpenStack and Cloud Foundry, and served on the CF board.
Omri was also the CPO of Puppet.
Laurent oversees product and business development at CAST AI. Laurent was co-founder and Chief Product and Business Officer at Zenedge (acquired by Oracle), and CEO and co-founder of Viewdle (acquired by Google). He holds degrees from the Cybernetic Institute of Ukraine (Doctorate Honoris Causa), the Wharton School of Business (MBA), and Supélec (M.Sc., Computer Science and Signal processing), among others.
- Executive experience in startups, having led product and engineering teams
- 1x successful exit two startups ago
- Experience in product strategy, roadmap development, and shipping software products from ideation to MVP to PMF
- Scaled teams at various stages of growth (4 to 10, 20 to 40 and 50 to 85)
- Super enthusiastic about the potential of AI and what it will bring to the future.
An experienced leader who drives technology adoption at an accelerated rate. Placing customer first values whilst establishing a robust collaborative partnership to deliver exceptional all round customer experience. More details https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gonsalves-61b3019/
Aside from software development, he is also dedicated to training: former Spring Certified instructor, he delivers the JavaSpecialists Master courses for advanced Java topics in Spain.
Active member in the Java community, @MadridJUG co-organizer, regular speaker and has been involved in organizing conferences like the first 2 editions of Codemotion Spain or Lambda World in Cadiz -Spain-
David is a JavaChampion since January 2020.
Originally from Southern California and a long-time resident of New York City, Ben now resides near Tel Aviv.
As a Product Management Coach in Silicon Valley, she has helped 300+ individuals achieve their goals.
He has previously led teams at both the Israeli intelligence corps and Samsung, and has been an active open source contributor and maintainer for over a decade.
A specialist team builder, adept at understanding people, teams and commercial constraints and in empowering teams to find innovative solutions. Equally skilled in coaching, leading and supporting teams and individuals through change.
A strong technical background and leadership capabilities to define and implement strategic and tactical roadmaps for start-ups and scale-ups.
He was responsible for Zalando's product and category experience and integrated hundred thousands of merchants into idealo's price comparison platform. Before that, he was a managing consultant at Campana & Schott for project, program, and portfolio management and developed custom software at Capgemini.
His educational background is computer science at Humboldt University Berlin and the Hasso Plattner Institute for Systems Engineering.
Eventually, his passion for graph database structures led him to building a Developer Relations team at TigerGraph spending most of his time building communities, educational resources, relations with developers, and contributing to open sources projects.
Jon is also the founder of the Futurist Academy, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering youth to become future STEM leaders of tomorrow.
Skilled in communicating complex technical concepts and issues to support executive and board-level discussions.
I bring strong program delivery skills at scale globally in both Waterfall and Agile delivery models, and focus on cost-effective approach to operational and technology risk management.
For fun, Jenson enjoys scuba diving and video games. Jenson has made the San Francisco Bay Area home after living in multiple countries.
Mr. Holian has over 21 years of experience in multiple industries in Executive Consulting, IT Services, Enterprise Architecture and Hi-Tech business transformation and has been awarded multiple patents.
When he's not working to help development teams adopt modern and secure tools and practices he can usually be found in the kitchen, playing board games with his kids, or spending time skiing and biking small midwestern hills
Horovits is an avid advocate of open source and communities. An organizer of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation local chapter in Tel-Aviv, a podcaster at OpenObservability Talks, a blogger and a public speaker.
Working as the principal developer advocate at Logz.io, Horovits evangelizes on Observability in IT systems using popular open source projects such as Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Jaeger and OpenTelemetry.
Jonathan commands a unique full-spectrum perspective regarding today’s architectures and hybrid/multi-cloud environments. His expert command of the agile development process and team-first approach has been counted on in support of a number of business-critical application development efforts, and his ability to engage and grasp client functional requirements ensure the delivery of immense customer value.
In his 25+ years of experience, he's worked across many industries including broadcasting, advertising, retail, financial services, supply chain, transportation, technology, and publishing -- gaining a breadth of knowledge on all things APIs and Integrations.
As an expert Digital Strategist, Brenton currently works as Vice President at Software AG, a global leader in the API, Integration, and IoT space.
She has spoken at over 30 international conferences including KubeCon China, DevConf.cz, FOSSBackstage, FOSDEM and many more. She is a member of the organizing committee for Kubernetes Community Day Africa (KCD. With a focus on advocating for open source, Cloud native, DevOps, Documentation, community management and DEI best practices, Anita is uniquely positioned to help individuals become more comfortable and confident as they contribute to their communities.
She also runs everythingtechnicalwriting.com, where she publishes content to help new tech content creators level up.
Today as the Developer Advocate at GitGuardian, Mackenzie is able to share his passion for code security with developers and works closely with research teams to show how malicious actors discover and exploit vulnerabilities in code.
Carsten primarily focuses on the early stages of the developer journey, and strives to support developers with everything they need to successfully adopt a solution. He has experience with different solution types, including mobile, infrastructure, streaming, fintech and blockchain.
Aviator today supports engineering processes at many modern engineering teams including Slack, Square, Doordash, Figma.
Engineering and Product leader with over two decade of experience building and launching products at high technology startups and companies. Led startups to successful acquisitions, customer and tremendous revenue growth. Acquired startups and led to successful integration and business growth. Founding member of four successful startups - Arkin acquired by VMWare, FrontRange acquired by Ivanti, DBO2 acquired by Industrial Scientific, and RIOTT.
I am passionate to build novel products with customer centric innovative mindset, making complex problems simple.
She earned her Masters in Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests are in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. She has delivered 45+ talks and workshops at 20+ conferences and universities globally.
She enjoys mentoring and teaching new concepts and help people use data and code to drive change. In her free time, she enjoys traveling, cooking, and writing.
Mr. Johansson has earned an MSC, Engineering Physics from Chalmers University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
When I'm not helping developers, IT teams, and analysts solve their data problems, you'll find me at home with my wife and children reading books, playing with LEGOs, or watching them swim. Otherwise, you can find me at a table playing board games or at my desk painting miniatures.
With his expertise in large scale digital transformations powered by cloud, data, AI, and automation, Shankar is working to catalyze the recent growth in Stantec's digital and technology teams. He oversees technology support for the ideation, incubation, and commercialization of digital products that will be brought to market, while also supporting the development of tools for internal use to drive efficiency in the delivery offerings.
Gagan's numerous contributions at his current and previous employments include simplifying architectures, building fault tolerant solutions and improving operational efficiencies allowing teams to spend more time driving business goals and delivering value to consumers.
Gagan believes personalization, automation and digital technology are key elements to build transformative products and deliver consistent and effective customer experience.
A graduate of the MIT Engineering Systems Division, Kaya was previously a strategy/analytics lead at CloudLock and Cisco Systems. Kaya has a proven track record of translating complex data into actionable insights and leading cross-functional teams towards analytical excellence. In addition to her corporate roles, Kaya is a frequently sought-after keynote speaker and panelist at leading industry events.
He later open-sourced Featureform’s virtual feature store. Featureform's declarative python framework allow ML teams to define, manage, and serve their model features.
He’s also an avid surfer, a mixed martial artist, a published astrophysicist, and ran the SF marathon in basketball shoes.
He is the co-founder of Got It AI. In addition to developing products, he invests in and serves on the boards of cutting-edge technology companies.
Prior to Got-It, Chandra led a number of AI teams at Amazon (AI, Alexa Prize), Uber (Multimodal AI, Conversational AI), and eBay (Recommendation Systems).
Prior to NCF, I spent 8 1/2 years at BCG where I've held several technology leadership positions with a proven track record of aligning cross-functional business needs with technology solutions. I'm passionate about building strong engineering organizations and inspiring the next generation of leaders tackle their organization's toughest technical challenges.
In parallel, Frank is helping drive the creation of the API Workflows Specification (under OpenAPI Initiative’s umbrella), which aims to improve human understanding of how to consume APIs to achieve business goals.
Prior to joining SmartBear, his most recent roles have been focused on API-led Digital Transformations and architecture modernization within multi-national enterprises to improve business outcomes and developer experiences.
Carrying industrial experience in key technical software development and management roles, since 1992. Working in leading global companies in the Hi-Tech industry, serving in parallel as a staff member in the Computer Science School at the Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo, since 1998.
Victor has started his career as a software engineer and focused on product development for the telecommunications industry. For almost 20 years he delivers digital innovation services & solutions as a consultant and executive.
In 2015 Victor has cofounded a low-code platform XME.digital to make digital transformation inside large enterprises and make products out of ideas.
Business speaker, MBA graduated, represents Ukraine in governmental trade missions.
PhD in AI and MSc in Computer Science, certified PMP and fluent in 4 European languages.
Transformational leader with international experience, extensive competence in various business domains, startups and enterprises, product and offshore companies, and multi-cultural environments.
He brings over 25 years of experience as Technology executive, Business visionary, and Servant leader - leading Enterprise Architecture, Transformational Change Management, and Delivery Practices with expertise in building world-class Technology and Consulting organizations, Lean business strategies, and digitizing multi-billion-dollar portfolios.
Since co-founding Lisk, Max has become increasingly involved in the global crypto community, speaking at many of the top blockchain conferences in the world. Today, Max is working relentlessly to help the industry gain traction with Lisk’s easy-to-use software development kit.
Prior to SlashData Moschoula spent some time in Fintech, alternative energy, services and retail. As a hands-on, solution driven leader, she's now leading the company through new phases and changes to improve efficiency, quality, and focus on the core business - Developer Market Research.
Outside of SlashData she's a new mom learning to navigate the delicate preferences and palette of a young toddler!
Tessa takes pride in engaging with her community and building strong relationships with developers and has done this for several companies & organizations. Her goal is to elevate developers' voices in the community. In addition to her work as Head of Platform DevRel at Snap, she advises developer products and mentors underrepresented groups. Previously, Tessa was the Director of Advocacy & Community at Lacework, Developer Community at Twitter, and Developer Outreach Manager at Pantheon—to name a few.
He has an MBA from the University of Toronto and an MS from Northwestern University. He also judges many prestigious business awards and startup competitions. Additionally, Varun engages in startup advising and mentoring and has thought work published in various tech outlets.
Founder & CEO Doc-E.ai - Grow Developer Adoption by aligning Community Support, Advocacy, Content and Education.
CEO/CTO @Clearedin [acquired by Barracuda Networks]
Software Architect @BladeNetwork [acquired by IBM]
Sr. Software Engineer @AndiamoSystems [acquired by Cisco]
Software Engineer @SycamoreNetworks
B.Tech(H) IIT Kharagpur
Cross Border e-Commerce Leader, Global Marketplace Specialist, Payment Architect, and Customer Conversion Strategist.
Former CTO at FedEx Cross Border — co-created Bongo International in 2007, which was acquired by FedEx in 2015.
He is also the founder of python-engineer.com, a website that provides Python tutorials for beginners and experts, and he's known for his YouTube channel which features tutorials and discussions on software development and AI.
Mario’s work consists of the application of the most recent technologies to improve and solve the various problems that big companies face across a range of sectors, to ensure the success of their projects.
Carlos has a degree in Computer Science from ITESO and a Master’s in Technology Commercialization from UT Austin. He has 20+ years in IT with a solid experience in technology, systems, problem solving, research and business strategy.
Carlos is the author of the upcoming book “The Efficient Enterprise”, a business book that brings these technologies closer to the business user.
Always learning and growing, excited about what is here, and what comes next.
Always learning and growing, excited about what is here, and what comes next.
More than 500 talks in 5 years with daily updates on IoT case studies and technical information. Named the AWS IoT Hero in 2020.
At a Linux server manifacture in Japan in 2000, I was in charge of network infrastructure and lead of e-commerce business, and since 2015 I has been in charge of leading IoT solutions. Collaborating with mega-cloud vendors and using sub-Giga/BLE involved in pioneering IoT implementations in the industry, such as building IoT systems.
Other Links:
Podcast: https://rss.com/podcasts/harperdb-select-star/
Blog: https://dev.to/margo_hdb
Nishant is currently a Sr. Software Engineer at Roku. He has passionately developed his expertise in cross-company projects across various fields such as IoT, telecom, SaaS, technology and mobile app development. He has a proven track record of delivering impactful and innovative projects that drive business growth, increase user engagement, and generate new revenue streams. He is an exemplary leader in execution of critical projects.
He has an innovative product mindset and loves to solve complex customer issues using technology.
Holds a Master's in Information Security from Carnegie Mellon University and a CISSP certification. He is also a qualified member of AP2SI, a non-profit organization that promotes Information Security, and Co-Leader of the OWASP Lisboa Chapter, in Portugal.
He is also an international speaker at security conferences, such as SnowFROC, LASCON, BSides Kraków, and BSides Lisbon.
My team and I make sure that when our clients receive a profile, the candidate has been screened, qualified, and meets expectations.
We deliver quality CVs at pace and become an extension of our client’s company which is crucial for any fast-growing business.
At remoti, we also facilitate hiring globally and compliantly with employee retention as our north.
Connect, meet, hire.
I’m driven by new challenges.
Former DevOps Manager.
Web & Mobile Developer with more than 20 years of experience.
Technical Writer and International Speaker.
Proudly a member of the following programs: DevOps Institute Ambassador, GitHub Campus Advisor, GitKraken Ambassador, Progress NativeScript Developer Experts, Auth0 Ambassador, and GitLab Heroe.
Leads and co-organizes some tech local communities (OWASP, The DevOps Workshop, HTML+JS).
- Infrastructure
- CI/CD
- QE
- SRE
- Data Platform
- Internal Tools
Specialties: DevOps and Agile transformation, Software Quality Assurance (SQA), ERP/CRM system tuning and testing, Test automation.
With a proven track record of bringing emerging solutions to the market, she has been pivotal in establishing VMware as an industry-winning provider of Desktop-aaS and AI/ML-driven autonomous workspaces. Before VMware, Shikha managed a product line of WAN acceleration and Software-Defined WAN solutions at Cisco Systems.
She is also an avid keynote speaker and a Cal State East Bay Leadership Advisory Council member.
A featured speaker at CES, Money 2020, Shop.org, CTIA, and other industry conferences, Maya has been highlighted in outlets such as Bloomberg, Forbes, CNBC, Business Insider, and others. She has authored articles for TechCrunch and Quartz. She has also been an Adjunct Professor at NYU, lecturing on mobile technology.
Jeremy enjoys teaching through his popular tech blog and YouTube channel as well as contributing to open source as a .NET Foundation Member, and DevOps Institute Ambassador.
I aim to explain to people that technical docs is more than writing boring content. It's actually a fun and diverse skill you can master.
E.g., learn how to tweak your documentation search to provide better results using Algolia, dive into content analytics/user flows with Google Analytics, or design the optimal developer learning journey.
My value? I deeply understand the DevRel space, especially technical docs, docs tooling, and DevExperience. Also, I've worked in DevRel for four years (and 3y in software engineering).
Leo is passionate about software engineering and artificial intelligence in the age of cloud and the landscape it enables. A believer in organizational transformation and the role of the community as a means to empower society.
Having performed as consultant, SA and CTO, Leo has helped organizations overcome business and technology challenges and is now focused as CEO on helping companies deliver innovation and value using the cloud and leading edge software engineering.
In the past years, I've founded and sold a startup, built the digital lab of a German Mittelstand company, and now combine both aspects as the CTO of the Venture Builder wattx. Since we're building digital solutions and ventures for other (traditional) companies, I've been part of a team that tackles challenges from building a healthy food store online to engineering an IoT solution that reduces scrap in wet-milling processes.
He serves as a Developer Advocate, where he develops innovative products for mobile developers and advocates for the Mobile DevOps platform. In addition to his primary role, Moataz is an AWS Community Builder.
In the past, they led the non-Latin script Kindle rendering team to deliver millions of books on billions of devices in Japanese, Indic, Arabic, and Chinese. Giorgio also had the opportunity to lead the engineering effort to implement new payment methods and regulations for Amazon Brazil.
Giorgio organized Droidcon Boston, SwiftFest, and spoke to over 100 international conferences.
Magith Noohukhan holds a Master's degree in Robotics Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt, Germany, and a bachelor's in Electronics and Communications Engineering.
She has content online that teaches people about Infrastructure Automation, Software Engineering, Productivity & Career Growth.
Adora is the Author of "Cloud Engineering for Beginners", and "Beginning Azure DevOps". She is passionate about the developer community and is driving inclusion for women in technology. She co-organizes community events, contributes to open-source, and speaks at technology conferences worldwide.
• Demonstrated expertise in maximizing product value through Agile, Lean and SDLC
• Voice of customer evangelist driving product, placement, pricing, and promotion specifically to demonstrated customer buying preferences.
• Experienced in logistics, pharma/medical device, manufacturing, retail, hi-tech, and transportation verticals.
• Focused on building and then commercializing new, emerging technologies to the mass market.
• Specific experience building/using technology to establish, grow and optimize development and product teams supporting corporate initiatives and sales efforts.
Gift co-founded Data Community Africa, where he leads and nurtures the community. He also serves as a Community and Content Support Advocate at Iterativeai, where he actively amplifies the community through product feedback, influential newsletters, and other form of content.
Gift's dedication to empowering Africans in AI is evident in his facilitation of the African Data Community Newsletter and his organization of the MLOps Community in Lagos.
He writes Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) technical articles for WhyLabs.
He is a technical reviewer for MLOps books at Packtpub.
Stephen is the lead volunteer and a founding member at AI School Africa.
Experience in collecting high-level requirements and translating them into technical solutions, helping customers and partners around the globe. He also contributed to several open-source projects and the Kubernetes community and holds Kubernetes certifications, such as CKA, CKAD, and KCNA, among other computer and cloud industry certifications.
Suzan currently heads Impact Immersive; a Los Angeles based studio and consultancy that uses the persuasive power of AR to effect positive social change. She is a graduate of the Electronic Visualization Lab at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
With extensive experience in technical content and documentation writing, I have consistently delivered high-quality content that meets the needs of both
technical and non-technical audiences.
As a software engineer with over 7 years of experience, I have a proven track-record of successfully developing and managing client-centric web applications.
Akshay is an active technical community member, simplifying complex topics for everyone through presentations and blog posts. He bootstrapped Elastic User Group and is an active member of the local GDG chapter. He has several certifications in Cloud and Data.
Outside work, he enjoys pixelgraphy (Coiner of the term), travel, food, and adventures.
Azmath with prior "BIG 4" high-performance technology consulting experience, had key responsibilities including help drive value/business initiatives for several large programs and projects across various industries.
Prior to that he led the engineering and R&D groups at 3 start ups and was a captain in the Israeli military intelligence.
He is a father of 3, who likes to travel and read whether he has time for it or not.
I launched my first tech company in 2015, ComparaJá.pt, that became Portugal's largest price comparison site for financial products. Then I launched FREE NOW, the European Uber rival in Portugal. In 3 years we were able to attain a sizeable market share.
I have now started my 3rd entrepreneurial project, Bitloops, which is a backend-as-a-service and workflow design & orchestration platform that will make build backends 10x faster!
Space Invoices is currently used for invoicing and tax compliance in more than 30 countries.
Currently she is heading everything tech related at a Stealth Mode startup, organizing tech conferences (Security, SRE, AI and Go), and the Berlin chapters of the Go and Women Techmakers user groups.
She worked in 4 continents as a Lead Developer Advocate, Engineering Manager, Software and Hardware Engineer, and a Co-Founder of a mobile start-up. In her free time, she is wondering if there is life on Mars.
Spoke at various virtual events and hackathons internationally. Aside my profession, I also advocate for open source sustainability by being a member of Sustain OSS, Mental health and Productivity.
My industry experience of working for 10+ years at top tech companies has given me a chance to work on and launch numerous complex software and business products.
I believe this experience coupled with my academic background will help me add value to the Product Advisory Board.
Confident, visionary leader with strong business savvy capabilities marked by a blend of strategic, financial, operational, and technical acumen. Seasoned P&L owner and operator with a track record of delivering results in hyper growth businesses with teams consistently delivering double digit top line growth and double digit KPI improvements year over year.
With more than 16 years of experience in Engineering across multiple companies including IBM and Microsoft, Payal is passionate about the intersection of Cloud, ML and Cybersecurity. At Microsoft, she wore many hats - shipped security features for Windows 10 as a TPM, breached some of the foundational services at Microsoft as a Red teamer, strengthened Azure platform security as Software Development Engineer, and shipped features in Microsoft Sentinel as Applied Machine Learning Engineer.
I have an extensive knowledge in natural language processing, machine learning, information retrieval, web search engines, data mining, personalization, and distributed large-scale systems. Recently, I've been focusing on developing generative AI for financial transactions to explore its applications beyond text and images.
In my free time, I enjoy reviewing machine learning books, papers, and conferences for select publications and events.
As the leader of the cloud security efforts at Coinbase, Dilip's current role involves developing and implementing the infrastructure security strategy, policies, and procedures to make it the most secure crypto platform in the world.
He is passionate about staying current with the latest advancements in cloud technology and enjoys sharing his knowledge with others.
In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, photography, drinking tea and chasing after her young son.
and engaged with ad hoc projects of building customer-facing software applications, transforming concepts into viable products.
Currently, Evgeny is leading XR and AI/ML product development at Cityscape, creating digital twins and metaverse experiences that reinvent the way we build cities and stay connected in virtual and mixed reality worlds.
Clients include HTC, Dyson, Crown Estates, Landsec, British Land, Wellcome Trust, and the UK Government.
Evgeny is a guest lecturer and critic at UCL’s Bartlett School of Architecture, ranked top in the world for architecture, where he is mentoring on XR and generative design practices in construction.
Speaker and Bushcrafter out of passion - http://svenruppert.com
My DevRel journey started when I was a mentor to nearly 3,000 up-and-coming data scientists through Data Science Dream Job. This job had me hosting 3x office hours a week, creating educational content around machine learning, and managing a slack community.
I host a podcast called The Artists of Data Science, where I've interviewed people in machine learning plus New York Times selling best authors.
This led to me getting a sponsor for my podcast at a company that eventually hired me on full time for the position of Developer advocate.
Adam has previously spoken at STAR West, STAR East, Agile+DevOps West, Agile+DevOps East, STPCon, Swiss Testing Day, InflectraCon, TestingMind, EuroSTAR, Agile Testing Days, TestCon Europe, UNICOM, GSDC and STAR Canada.
He has 25 years of experience in the IAM subject, having worked in important companies and projects, some of them in a global scope.
He currently leads global IAM projects that affect groups of companies in the Americas, Asia and Europe.
Advisor to technology companies, including 8X8 Cybertech and CEO of ASTecnologia
Prior to founding Heuro Labs, Mohamed contributed to designing and implementing large scale distributed multi-billion users systems as well as constrained embedded security systems.
Mohamed co-authored the policy brief to the G20 on labor market transformation focusing on AI and its socioeconomic impact.
He enjoys learning and discovering new things, literature, writing, chess, Go.He recently started learning to compose music.
Prior to running a platform and infrastructure organization in Codility, Ilya was leading of Infrastructure alliance in hyper-growing rapid-delivery pioneer - Getir. Before that, Ilya spent several years with Hellofresh modernizing the QA organization as well as establishing the SRE function and leading the platform group.
Before moving to Berlin, Ilya worked with RSA Security, Microsoft, and CA.
He is passionate about complex systems and enjoys the challenge of codifying them.
Before he joined HashiCorp, Kerim worked at a variety of companies, ranging from cultural institutions and aviation to government services.
I firmly believe in the power of Open-Source and its ability to bring people together to create something greater than themselves.
I'm also passionate about supporting right-to-left languages and localization. I believe that everyone should have equal access to information and knowledge, regardless of language or cultural background.
I strive to bring a holistic perspective to everything I do, encouraging teams to think about the bigger picture and how their decisions will impact the entire system.
Adil excels at driving organizational alignment, revenue and profitability through strong collaboration with internal stakeholders, partners, vendors, and customers.
My experience with Consumer Software/Hardware Products at Microsoft, Apple and WellsFargo enables me to have deeper Product Insight and Customer Empathy. I have delivered some of key solutions for iCloud Accounts (Trusted devices, Multi Factor Authentication features), Itunes payment initiatives (Federated Payment Identity, Integration with 3P and 1P providers) Bing Search Ads Offerings and more recently at multiple start ups.
Akram has done cutting edge AI/ML early stage startup work with DL, tinyML along with EDA, fabless semiconductor companies globally.
He specializes on different wireless protocols, IoT software stacks, AI/Machine learning, Enterprise WiFi, IoT architectures, and the Cloud networking domain.
Akram is also a frequent presenter in many Internal Cisco Live, Devnet , APJC SecCon -2020 and external conferences in topics related to AI/ML, Wireless Networking , IOT and Cloud technologies.
Before Lightlytics, Or led multiple complex and multi-disciplinary technical products, involving hardware and software, mostly in the cloud and data center domains at NVIDIA.
He was the founder and CEO of Cigol a leading provider of Cloud network security solutions. Cigol was acquired by Mellanox(Nvidia Networking), Inc (Nasdaq: NVDA).
Or Served at the Israeli-NSA, where he Built complex technological projects from definition through implementation in the field of network security.
With more than 15 years of expertise in middleware, integration, and APIs, he is dedicated to resolving captivating predicaments.
After completing his engineering degree in computer science, Darshan worked within Fortune 500 companies like Apigee (Acquired by Google), T-Mobile, Starbucks, and Kaiser Permanente, where he built and ran successful API Programs.
I am committed to helping enterprise businesses succeed through innovative digital transformation and a shift in corporate culture.
David enjoys hillwalking, reading sci-fi and fantasy books and regularly visits most of Scotland's tractor parks with his sons.
Have always been working on data-problems from an ML/AI and analytics point of view. Extracting insights from the data and enabling users to get answers for various questions on the data is my expertise.
Vivek has worked in the tech industry for top global companies, such as IBM, AT&T and Schlumberger. He is currently a Co-Founder at CellStrat (www.cellstrat.com) – a leading AI firm that is developing cutting-edge Generative AI products for global enterprises.
Vivek runs one of the largest AI research communities via CellStrat, focussed on GenAI, NLP and Computer Vision.
Vivek holds a B.E. from IIT Roorkee and an MBA from Georgia State University, Atlanta.
• 10+ years of experience as a Lead Data Scientist
• Expertise in Forecasting, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Fraud Detection and Prevention, and Risk Assessment
• MSc. Computer Science
He loves working on next-generation technologies that blend the physical and digital worlds together to produce a new kind of mixed reality.
Kostiantyn's specialties include mobile, cloud platforms, DevOps, startups, and AR. Founding member and first engineer at two successful startups - Jets iOS app acquired by seatmaps.com and Mobile Strategy acquired by Omnicom Group.
Currently, Kostiantyn leads technology at TBWAX - an Amsterdam-based award-winning digital brand experience agency, helping leading brands to create engaging and disruptive experiences.
She is proficient in uplifting the goals of a community to establish connections, share knowledge, driving community engagement internally and externally. She is also contributes to the field of Developer Relations, Advocacy and Dev education!
Vanshika wants to empower and enlighten people on themes around Open Source, Diversity and Inclusion, Community-scale up and management, Women in STEM. She is working at Tech Startup(s) and sharing experiences around the same too!
Shivam has a diverse skillset and a proven track record of success. He previously worked as a Developer Advocate & in Product at Moralis, where he demonstrated his ability to communicate complex technical concepts to a wide range of audiences.
Currently, Shivam serves as a Product Manager at Tatum, where he continues to showcase his strategic thinking, attention to detail, and problem-solving skills. His ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and prioritise tasks ensures Tatum's product success.
Maxim holds a Ph.D. in computer science and has solid skills in theoretical Software Engineering.
Maxim brings extensive, practical knowledge in hiring staff, and mentoring and motivating his teams. Strong interpersonal skills, as well as a sense of humor, make him a top choice for client relations.
At Interna, David has worked with organizations of various sizes, from small six-member startups to larger companies such as Pluto (sold to Viacom for $340M), Reify Health (whose last round valued it at $2.2B), Lynda.com (sold to LinkedIn for $1.5B), and The Walt Disney Company. David also is on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles CTO Forum.
I've been the last 12 years at large organizations like Avaya, Amazon or Visma, but last year I jumped back to the startup arena. In Unleash we're building a cool product, and even cooler team, so I'm super excited about our present and upcoming moves.
He has a passion for technology, going from Machine Learning to Virtual/Augmented Reality, as well as 3D modelling.
Software Developer, Technical Lead, Trainer, Customer Success Manager, Developer Evangelist, Developer Community Advocate are some of the roles she has embraced in the last decade.
My mission is to bridge the gap between digital and physical worlds, and to understand how people make decisions in different environments, such as online, offline, and AR/VR.
At Teradata, Adam is responsible for building and running a developer experience team. The team includes product managers and dev advocates and is am responsible for key products that define developer experience for Teradata users: the dev portal, flagship SQL IDE, flagship REST API, and critical integrations with 3rd party products.
She speaks at conferences across Europe, sits on numerous global advisory boards as a trusted voice, and helps forge (new) industry standards and materials. Although playing safe doesn’t allow us to flourish, Victoria is determined to help others stay ahead and reveal the seemingly impossible yet possible.
He serves as the PMC Member on Apache Samza, an open-source project. His work on Samza has been widely adopted at LinkedIn, Uber, TripAdvisor, Slack, Intuit, Netflix, Ebay, Optimizely and other companies.
Hilton is highly skilled in leading and managing multidisciplinary project teams across technology, product, marketing and operations to deliver a world leading product and customer experience. Significant experience in leading technology and transformative business process-enabled change across complex international organisations, particularly in the areas of eCommerce/Digital, Cloud, SaaS and Application Development
She is originally from Lusaka, Zambia but currently based in Lund, Sweden. She believes in the power of diversity in tech making her passionate about helping more women get into tech. Before becoming a developer, Gertrude worked in marketing and communications this background and transition has affirmed her belief that we are all capable of being whatever we want to be if we put our mind to it.
In her spare time, she enjoys learning about innovative technologies, reading, yoga and podcasting.
A former CTO, and Technology VP, Richard brought new technologies to market, and was responsible for strategy, partnerships and product research.
Richard served on Splunk’s Technology Advisory Board through their Series A, and more recently co-chaired the ONUG Monitoring & Observability Working Group.
Richard holds three patents, and is considered dangerous with JavaScript.
He is currently a Developer Advocate at solo.io and works to engage and advocate for network engineers looking to move into the world of DevOps.
Previously, Scott was both the Chief Innovation Officer and first CTO of SXSW where he developed the web and mobile software, IT, digital marketing, and video production necessary for producing the world renowned SXSW Interactive, Music, and Film conferences and festivals held every March in Austin, TX.
In his spare-time he runs the non- profit- organization DotNetDevs.at, which goal is to spread knowledge and experience about the usage of .NET technologies in Austria.
Benjamin spreads his enthusiasm and new knowledge as a speaker and author – especially in chaos and resilience engineering. For example, he created the open-source project Chaos Monkey for Spring boot, which received 790 stars on GitHub. Benjamin believes that chaos engineering is just a means to an end towards establishing a culture of resilience. One thing he does to relax his mind is to push his body while shredding MTB trails.