DevSecOps professional with a strong background in Linux infrastructure and security. Contributor to the Wazuh project, developing solutions for threat detection and compliance in hybrid cloud environments. Committed to the open source ecosystem, he collaborates with the Debian community and free software events in Latin America, promoting security, transparency, and collaboration in technology

DevSecOps professional with a strong background in Linux infrastructure and security. Contributor to the Wazuh project, developing solutions for threat detection and compliance in hybrid cloud environments. Committed to the open source ecosystem, he ... Show more

Mahaputra Ilham Awal is a cloud security professional with extensive expertise in securing infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Azure environments, alongside a strong focus on software supply chain and application security. Beyond his technical work, he is passionate about tech education and mentorship, having successfully guided multiple student teams to competition victories in cloud and cybersecurity projects. He actively shapes the local tech ecosystem as a core learning contributor in the DevOps Focus Group, creating impactful educational content and open-source resources that help practitioners advance their DevOps, secure CI/CD, and engineering workflows. His primary areas of research and focus include DevSecOps integration, Cloud Architecture, and the application of AI technologies in healthcare systems.

Mahaputra Ilham Awal is a cloud security professional with extensive expertise in securing infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Azure environments, alongside a strong focus on software supply chain and application security. Beyond his technical work, ... Show more

David Dawson is a seasoned Business Analyst with 30+ years' experience transforming business needs into technical solutions in aerospace, government, and healthcare industries. Specializing in requirements analysis, process optimization, and digital transformation, he has led implementations and agile projects at Boeing, Department of Defence, and more recently at IQVIA. Through his unique leadership style and flair, David has earned the respect of his peers which had led to him being formally recongised by receiving the Mark Donaldson VC award. He is currently completing his Masters of International Business through the Queensland University of Technology. A Polish-Australian dual citizen, he is passionate about fostering operational excellence.

David Dawson is a seasoned Business Analyst with 30+ years' experience transforming business needs into technical solutions in aerospace, government, and healthcare industries. Specializing in requirements analysis, process optimization, and digital ... Show more

Mayank Gupta is a Senior R&D Engineer Level 5, Principal Technical Lead, and Java Architect with more than 19 years of experience designing, architecting, and delivering enterprise-grade distributed systems across the network observability, healthcare, capital markets, finance, payments, and telecommunications sectors. Throughout his career, he has held senior technical and leadership positions at globally recognized organizations, including Broadcom, HealthEdge, Fidelity Information Services (FIS), Deutsche Bank, ACL Mobile, Sapient, and Wipro. His expertise spans cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, microservices, real-time messaging platforms, observability solutions, database engineering, and enterprise application development.
Currently, Mr. Gupta serves as a Senior R&D Engineer at Broadcom, where he contributes to the company’s Network Observability Platform and DX NetOps portfolio. In this role, he has led the design and delivery of cloud-native observability solutions, including the integration of Grafana, AppNeta, GraphQL-based data services, and role-based access control frameworks. He has driven authentication and authorization initiatives that enable secure single sign-on experiences and trusted access to data across distributed environments. His work has also included the development of advanced network topology visualization capabilities and the implementation of AI-assisted engineering workflows to improve platform development and operational efficiency.
At Broadcom, Mr. Gupta also architected and implemented production-grade high-availability database solutions using MySQL InnoDB Cluster technology and led automation initiatives that significantly reduced deployment times. In addition, he was a core architect of a container-based one-click upgrade platform that automated upgrade validation, deployment, and post-upgrade verification across more than ten DX NetOps products. This solution substantially reduced upgrade cycle times for enterprise customers while improving reliability and scalability across large production environments.
Prior to Broadcom, Mr. Gupta served as Principal Software Engineer and Java Technical Lead at HealthEdge Software, where he supported the HealthRules Payer platform serving more than 110 million covered lives. He led technical initiatives spanning integration APIs, identity and access management, database performance optimization, and release automation. Among his notable contributions, he optimized a critical claims-processing pipeline, reducing processing time from approximately fifteen hours to thirty minutes through extensive database and application-level performance improvements. He also designed OAuth2-based security frameworks and contributed to the development of cloud-native microservices deployed on AWS and Kubernetes.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Gupta held technical leadership positions at Fidelity Information Services and Deutsche Bank, where he developed mission-critical payment processing and financial technology solutions. At Deutsche Bank, he contributed to the SWIFT Global Payment Initiative (GPI), helping deliver real-time cross-border payment tracking capabilities through the integration of enterprise messaging technologies, including IBM MQ, Solace, and ActiveMQ. He also led database optimization efforts and applied rigorous software engineering practices, including test-driven and behavior-driven development methodologies.
Mr. Gupta possesses extensive expertise in Java, Spring Boot, microservices, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Apache Kafka, IBM MQ, Solace, GraphQL, Grafana, Oracle, MySQL, and a wide range of enterprise integration and observability technologies. His experience encompasses software architecture, cloud-native application development, messaging systems, security frameworks, database engineering, and AI-augmented software delivery. Over the course of his career, he has contributed to large-scale technology platforms supporting network operations, healthcare administration, financial services, and telecommunications organizations worldwide.
Mr. Gupta earned a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Meerut Institute of Engineering and Technology, affiliated with Uttar Pradesh Technical University, India. Throughout his career, he has contributed to industry-recognized technology platforms, including Broadcom’s DX NetOps portfolio and HealthEdge’s HealthRules Payer platform, which have received recognition from leading industry analysts and organizations for innovation, performance, and operational excellence.

Mayank Gupta is a Senior R&D Engineer Level 5, Principal Technical Lead, and Java Architect with more than 19 years of experience designing, architecting, and delivering enterprise-grade distributed systems across the network observability, healthcar... Show more

Architect and software generalist. Rustacian. Java veteran. Sustainable computing advocate. Web assembly enthousiast. Occasional Embedded Rust streamer.

Architect and software generalist. Rustacian. Java veteran. Sustainable computing advocate. Web assembly enthousiast. Occasional Embedded Rust streamer. Show more

Smridhi Gupta is a Tech Analyst at Citibank specializing in secure LLM systems, RAG reliability, and AI evaluation frameworks. Previously a Research Intern at AIISC, she has authored six peer-reviewed publications spanning transformer-based medical imaging, enterprise AI, and applied machine learning research. Her work focuses on building trustworthy, production-ready AI systems that bridge research and real-world deployment. She is also a tech creator sharing insights on AI, development, and emerging technologies with a growing community of 6.5K+ followers.

Beyond research and engineering, she is the organizer of JS Community, where she has led 4+ offline tech events in the past four months in Pune, building a growing developer ecosystem with 350+ signups and an average footfall of 100+ attendees per meetup.

Smridhi Gupta is a Tech Analyst at Citibank specializing in secure LLM systems, RAG reliability, and AI evaluation frameworks. Previously a Research Intern at AIISC, she has authored six peer-reviewed publications spanning transformer-based medical i... Show more

Justin Bookey is a former lawyer, an award-winning marketing strategist, and global ping pong player. In his talks and workshops, he guides leaders and teams to maximize their chances for business success, through fun, interactive, and practical lessons.

Justin has learned from some of the best and brightest in several industries while working with leaders at Disney, Sony, Honda, Qualcomm, XPRIZE, and more. After practicing communications law for several years in Washington, DC, he transitioned to web content development. He’s earned Emmy nominations for feature documentaries he produced, and Telly, Viddy, and ADDY awards for digital marketing campaigns he spearheaded.

Upon moving to LA, Justin stepped up his training with Olympian and world-class table tennis coach Wei Wang. His efforts with her and other national/world champions helped him win medals at the US Open. He learned different leadership cultures while studying in India and teaching in Japan, and has played table tennis on seven continents.

He grew up in Seattle, Washington, and now lives and works in Santa Monica, California, where he also runs PongFit, a nonprofit that builds fitness and community through ping pong.

Justin Bookey is a former lawyer, an award-winning marketing strategist, and global ping pong player. In his talks and workshops, he guides leaders and teams to maximize their chances for business success, through fun, interactive, and practical less... Show more

I am a data science professional with over 11 years of experience transforming complex data into actionable insights. My recent work focuses on building and deploying Generative AI solutions to solve real-world business problems, ranging from process automation to intelligent agent systems.

With a background in the AI field, I specialize in machine learning algorithms, deep learning algorithms, natural language processing, large language models (LLMs), and AI product development. I have led multiple AI projects across different industries. I am passionate about sharing practical lessons from hands-on AI implementations and helping teams unlock the value of advanced technologies through clear communication, demos, and use cases. Outside of work, I enjoy mentoring aspiring data professionals and staying current with the latest AI research and tools.

I am a data science professional with over 11 years of experience transforming complex data into actionable insights. My recent work focuses on building and deploying Generative AI solutions to solve real-world business problems, ranging from process... Show more

Vara Bonthu is a Principal Technologist for Open Source – Data, AI & Kubernetes at AWS, and a CNCF Maintainer for the Kubeflow Spark Operator and MCP Server for Spark History Server. He leads the Data-on-EKS and AI-on-EKS open-source initiatives, helping organizations architect and scale distributed data and AI workloads on Kubernetes.
With hands-on experience managing Spark deployments across thousands of nodes and hundreds of thousands of pods, Vara focuses on performance optimization, workload resiliency, and AI-driven observability for cloud-native data frameworks including Apache Spark, Ray, and Kubeflow. He actively contributes to CNCF and open-source communities, advancing standards for scalable data processing, AI inference, and agentic AI systems on Kubernetes.

Vara Bonthu is a Principal Technologist for Open Source – Data, AI & Kubernetes at AWS, and a CNCF Maintainer for the Kubeflow Spark Operator and MCP Server for Spark History Server. He leads the Data-on-EKS and AI-on-EKS open-source initiatives, hel... Show more

Cybersecurity leader, Independent director, Startup advisor & Tech entrepreneur.
On a mission to make humans the strongest link in cybersecurity. Researcher on predictive threat modelling, OSINT, Cloud, Threat intelligence,AI/ ML integration. Passionate about cultivating security mindset.

Cybersecurity leader, Independent director, Startup advisor & Tech entrepreneur. On a mission to make humans the strongest link in cybersecurity. Researcher on predictive threat modelling, OSINT, Cloud, Threat intelligence,AI/ ML integration. Passio... Show more