Information & Communications Technology

Seasoned technologists, digital innovators, and other ICT experts, dedicated to advancing the field of information and communications technology

Siva Prasad Reddy Katamreddy

Siva Prasad Reddy Katamreddy

Siva is a Developer Advocate at JetBrains with 18+ years of experience building scalable distributed enterprise applications. He has strong hands-on experience building Cloud-Native applications using various technologies, including Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and SQL/NoSQL databases.

He is the author of Beginning Spring Boot 3 (Apress), PrimeFaces Beginners Guide (PacktPub), and Java Persistence with MyBatis 3 books. He shares his knowledge on his blog https://sivalabs.in and his YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/sivalabs.

Siva is a Developer Advocate at JetBrains with 18+ years of experience building scalable distributed enterprise applications. He has strong hands-on experience building Cloud-Native applications using various technologies, including Java, Kotlin, Spr... Show more

Chris Perko

Chris Perko

Chris is an Atlanta based senior software engineer at HeroDevs and a Google Developer Expert in Angular. Chris has worked in several industries and helped build full-stack web applications, but has a passion for front-end development, with a focus on Angular. Outside of code, he enjoys craft beer, hiking, camping, and playing with his toddler.

Chris is an Atlanta based senior software engineer at HeroDevs and a Google Developer Expert in Angular. Chris has worked in several industries and helped build full-stack web applications, but has a passion for front-end development, with a focus on... Show more

Sean Wheeler

Sean Wheeler

Since 2017, I have been the lead documentarian for PowerShell. I ensure that users have the content they need. I also support and encourage the PowerShell Community to add value via open-source contributions to the documentation. In my 25+ years at Microsoft, I have taught many workshops on scripting, debugging, and advanced troubleshooting. Using my scripting expertise, I created tools to help customers collect and analyze data used to support and optimize their environments.

Since 2017, I have been the lead documentarian for PowerShell. I ensure that users have the content they need. I also support and encourage the PowerShell Community to add value via open-source contributions to the documentation. In my 25+ years at M... Show more

Yuan Chen

Yuan Chen

Yuan Chen is a Principal Software Engineer at Nvidia. Before joining Nvidia, Yuan served as a Staff Software engineer at Apple, where he contributed to the development of Apple's Kubernetes infrastructure beginning in 2019. Yuan has actively contributed to the Kubernetes projects and the CNCF community, and has delivered over 10 talks at KubeCon. He was a Principal Architect at JD.com and a Principal Researcher at Hewlett Packard Labs. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.

Yuan Chen is a Principal Software Engineer at Nvidia. Before joining Nvidia, Yuan served as a Staff Software engineer at Apple, where he contributed to the development of Apple's Kubernetes infrastructure beginning in 2019. Yuan has actively contribu... Show more

Aldan Creo

Aldan Creo

Hi! I'm Aldan, and I'm passionate about technology and research. I studied Computer Science in Spain, France and Switzerland, founded a few associations and contributed to open source projects. I've also been lucky enough to get some recognition for leadership and academic achievements, and I love learning from the community and participating in events. Currently, I'm working on research that combines Knowledge Graphs and Natural Language Processing, both topics I'm always happy to talk about!

Hi! I'm Aldan, and I'm passionate about technology and research. I studied Computer Science in Spain, France and Switzerland, founded a few associations and contributed to open source projects. I've also been lucky enough to get some recognition for ... Show more

Jeroen Egelmeers

Jeroen Egelmeers

Jeroen Egelmeers is a Prompt Engineering Advocate and GenAI Whisperer at Sogeti Netherlands. Jeroen also serves as a Software Engineering Trainer at the Capgemini Academy. He frequently delivers presentations on Java, Software Quality and Prompt Engineering at various events and venues. Jeroen is the founder of the "Crafting AI Prompts Framework." This framework is designed to craft optimal prompts while considering non-disclosure, data security, GDPR, and other constraints.

Jeroen Egelmeers is a Prompt Engineering Advocate and GenAI Whisperer at Sogeti Netherlands. Jeroen also serves as a Software Engineering Trainer at the Capgemini Academy. He frequently delivers presentations on Java, Software Quality and Prompt Engi... Show more

Brett Smith

Brett Smith

Software Architect/Engineer/Developer with 25+ years of experience.
Specialties: Event Driven Automation, Continuous Integration/Delivery/Testing/Deployment, Supply Chain Security
Expertise: Linux, packaging, and tool design.

Currently Engineering and Securing the Supply Chain with Event Driven CI/CD gitOps Pipeline Architectures that leverage Kafka, Go,
and Python running in Containers on Kubernetes and SBOMs.

Software Architect/Engineer/Developer with 25+ years of experience. Specialties: Event Driven Automation, Continuous Integration/Delivery/Testing/Deployment, Supply Chain Security Expertise: Linux, packaging, and tool design. Currently Enginee... Show more

Oliver Engels

Oliver Engels

Oliver Engels is CEO of oh22data AG, a Microsoft Gold Partner in Germany specialized in CRM and BI. His interests are on Azure, Data Governance and Integration, Machine Learning and Visualization Tools like SSRS, Power BI and Tableau. Oliver has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5 and is a founding member and current president of German Microsoft Data Platform Community (PASS), a PASS Regional Mentor, and runs the Frankfurt PASS Chapter. Since 2012 he is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and a also worked as a Microsoft pTSP. If he is not working with data, he loves working with his Golden Retrievers and supports a charity project training dogs for disabled children. OK, he is an enthusiastic Land Rover Defender driver as well 😊

Oliver Engels is CEO of oh22data AG, a Microsoft Gold Partner in Germany specialized in CRM and BI. His interests are on Azure, Data Governance and Integration, Machine Learning and Visualization Tools like SSRS, Power BI and Tableau. Oliver has work... Show more

Emin Alemdar

Emin Alemdar

Emin is working as a Solutions Architect. He has undertaken tasks such as producing solutions related to Enterprise Kubernetes, Cloud Architectures, Infrastructure as Code and CNCF Projects, and transferring best practices about DevOps culture, methods, Cloud adaptation in the Cloud-Native World.

Trying to help the community as a CNCF Ambassador and also as an AWS Container Hero. He is part of the official Cloud Native Community Group Istanbul Chapter and Kubernetes Community Days Istanbul event.

Emin is working as a Solutions Architect. He has undertaken tasks such as producing solutions related to Enterprise Kubernetes, Cloud Architectures, Infrastructure as Code and CNCF Projects, and transferring best practices about DevOps culture, metho... Show more

Lukas Durovsky

Lukas Durovsky

Staff Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience at Thermo Fisher Scientific. Interested in Domain-Driven Design and System Architectures. Passionate about leveraging AI to drive innovative solutions. Actively involved in the software engineering community, conducting workshops, talks, and lectures on topics such as GitHub Copilot and other topics from software engineering area.

Staff Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience at Thermo Fisher Scientific. Interested in Domain-Driven Design and System Architectures. Passionate about leveraging AI to drive innovative solutions. Actively involved in the software engineering... Show more

Fabrizio Lazzaretti

Fabrizio Lazzaretti

Fabrizio Lazzaretti is a Managing Consultant specializing in software architecture at Wavestone. He has over a decade of expertise in software architecture, development, and DevOps. He is a maintainer of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project CloudEvents. Recognized for his proficiency as both a team player and leader in software development, architecture, and Scrum, he excels in dynamic work settings. His primary areas of expertise lie in event-driven architecture and microservice design within cloud environments.
Currently, he is actively engaged in enterprise architecture within the insurance sector.

Fabrizio Lazzaretti is a Managing Consultant specializing in software architecture at Wavestone. He has over a decade of expertise in software architecture, development, and DevOps. He is a maintainer of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) p... Show more

Anastasiia Gubska

Anastasiia Gubska

Anastasiia Gubska, a Deaf CNCF Ambassador and SRE/DevOps Engineer at BT Group, develops and implements best practices for software delivery at the UK-based multinational telecommunications company. Passionate about discovering new communities and embracing diverse cultures, Anastasiia is an active member of the CNCF Deaf and Hard of Hearing Working Group and spearheads a Deaf IT community in Ukraine, fostering collaboration and knowledge-sharing.

Anastasiia Gubska, a Deaf CNCF Ambassador and SRE/DevOps Engineer at BT Group, develops and implements best practices for software delivery at the UK-based multinational telecommunications company. Passionate about discovering new communities and em... Show more

Carlos Sanchez

Carlos Sanchez

Carlos Sanchez is a Principal Scientist at Adobe Experience Manager, specializing in software automation, from build tools to Continuous Delivery and Progressive Delivery. Involved in Open Source for over 20 years, he is the author of the Jenkins Kubernetes plugin and a member of the Apache Software Foundation amongst other open source groups, contributing to several projects, such as Kubernetes, Jenkins or Apache Maven.

Carlos Sanchez is a Principal Scientist at Adobe Experience Manager, specializing in software automation, from build tools to Continuous Delivery and Progressive Delivery. Involved in Open Source for over 20 years, he is the author of the Jenkins Kub... Show more

Paul Swider

Paul Swider

Paul Swider is the Founding CEO of RealActivity, a Boston-based SaaS company focused on optimizing provider experience and clinical workforce for teaching hospitals and hospital systems. Paul is also a Healthcare Industry Cloud Analyst for the Acceleration Economy and serves as a founding director of the Boston Healthcare Technology Group and Community.

Paul is passionate about family, technology, travel, and skilling at scale. He has traveled seven continents, over one million miles, while organizing user groups, teaching at events, and presenting at events in over 50 countries to date.

Paul is an accomplished author of several Wrox developer books, was first certified as a Microsoft engineer (MCSE. MCSD, MCT) in 1996, and has held enterprise certifications from Microsoft since that time. Paul was Awarded Azure MVP for 2019 and Azure most Influential in 2020.

Paul Swider is the Founding CEO of RealActivity, a Boston-based SaaS company focused on optimizing provider experience and clinical workforce for teaching hospitals and hospital systems. Paul is also a Healthcare Industry Cloud Analyst for the Accel... Show more

James Eastham

James Eastham

James Eastham is a Serverless Developer Advocate at Datadog. He has over 10 years experience in software, at all layers of the application stack.

He has worked in front-line support, database administration, backend development and now works with some of the biggest companies in the world architecting systems using AWS technologies.

James produces content on YouTube, focused around building applications with serverless technologies using .NET, Java & Rust.

James Eastham is a Serverless Developer Advocate at Datadog. He has over 10 years experience in software, at all layers of the application stack. He has worked in front-line support, database administration, backend development and now works with ... Show more

Martyn Kilbryde

Martyn Kilbryde

Martyn Kilbryde is an experienced software architect and engineer with many years of experience working with global highly transactional web applications, specialising in building and delivering large complex systems from scratch. He is especially interested in event-driven and serverless architectures.

Martyn is also a member of the AWS Community Builders program and a Pluralsight author; spending his personal time digging deeper, exploring technology and sharing that knowledge with the wider community.

Martyn Kilbryde is an experienced software architect and engineer with many years of experience working with global highly transactional web applications, specialising in building and delivering large complex systems from scratch. He is especially in... Show more

Marcin Chudy

Marcin Chudy

Marcin is a Senior Flutter Developer at LeanCode, a software house from Poland known for building complex mobile apps with Flutter and engaging in the Flutter Warsaw community. He is currently playing a Flutter Tech Lead role in a large project for the banking sector. Previously worked with backend, and web frontend (React), finally settling on mobile and falling in love with Flutter at first sight. After work, he enjoys dancing salsa and bachata and attends metal concerts.

Marcin is a Senior Flutter Developer at LeanCode, a software house from Poland known for building complex mobile apps with Flutter and engaging in the Flutter Warsaw community. He is currently playing a Flutter Tech Lead role in a large project for t... Show more

Ben Ferry

Ben Ferry

Power BI professional.

Seven years of experience with Power BI implementation. From Power BI trainings to managing large scale roll-outs, report design to Power BI governance.
Preferred topics are Data Visualisation, Deneb, Power Query, API connectivity, Deneb, Buttons/bookmarks, uncomplication of Analytics.

Power BI professional. Seven years of experience with Power BI implementation. From Power BI trainings to managing large scale roll-outs, report design to Power BI governance. Preferred topics are Data Visualisation, Deneb, Power Query, API conne... Show more

Kajetan Duszyński

Kajetan Duszyński

Senior Developer/Team Leader at JIT Team with over 10 years of commercial experience. A passionate enthusiast for new technologies. Vlogger, blogger, YouTuber, and a person who feels best within the developer community. For more than 3 years, he has been helping people transition into the IT industry.

Senior Developer/Team Leader at JIT Team with over 10 years of commercial experience. A passionate enthusiast for new technologies. Vlogger, blogger, YouTuber, and a person who feels best within the developer community. For more than 3 years, he has ... Show more

Rajani Ekunde

Rajani Ekunde

Rajani is a skilled DevOps Engineer with over 3 years of experience, passionate about cloud technologies and DevOps practices. As a recognized Docker Captain and Women Techmakers (WTM) Ambassador, she actively contributes to the tech community through content creation and public speaking. Rajani shares her expertise on platforms like Medium and LinkedIn, aiming to educate and empower others in the DevOps space.

Her participation in major cloud and DevOps conferences highlights her commitment to continuous learning. As a public speaker, she engages with the global tech community on trending topics. Rajani finds fulfillment in mentoring aspiring engineers, inspiring and uplifting fellow professionals and students through her articles, talks, and mentorship.

Rajani is a skilled DevOps Engineer with over 3 years of experience, passionate about cloud technologies and DevOps practices. As a recognized Docker Captain and Women Techmakers (WTM) Ambassador, she actively contributes to the tech community throug... Show more

Joran Quinten

Joran Quinten

Jorans passion involves getting people to love technology and getting technology to play nice. He works as an interaction developer with ♡ for web, tech, science & tinkering with stuff. Focussed on innovation at Jumbo Supermarkten. Writes, tweets and speaks every now and then.

Jorans passion involves getting people to love technology and getting technology to play nice. He works as an interaction developer with ♡ for web, tech, science & tinkering with stuff. Focussed on innovation at Jumbo Supermarkten. Writes, tweets and... Show more

Riaz Javed Butt

Riaz Javed Butt

Thought leader experienced with cloud & security architecture to drive a successful business outcome. Experience leading cross functional teams of highly skilled professionals focused on strategic delivery of solutions with built-in efficiency, security, and resiliency while maintaining a constant awareness to cost optimization and reducing associated cyber risk to the businesses.

My consulting experience is focused on working with businesses on their transformation journey through development, consultation, architecture design, implementation, optimization, and managed services. In consulting role, I have been advising both internal and external (local & International) stakeholders/customers on strategic technology selection and adoption along with delivery of solutions across a range of business units.

Thought leader experienced with cloud & security architecture to drive a successful business outcome. Experience leading cross functional teams of highly skilled professionals focused on strategic delivery of solutions with built-in efficiency, secur... Show more

Cristina Tarabini-Castellani Ciordia

Cristina Tarabini-Castellani Ciordia

Ingeniera Informática, especializada en SQL Server. Mas de 12 años modelando, desarrollando, administrando y optimizando bases de datos en un entorno en el que la información debe de llegar en el menor tiempo posible.

Ingeniera Informática, especializada en SQL Server. Mas de 12 años modelando, desarrollando, administrando y optimizando bases de datos en un entorno en el que la información debe de llegar en el menor tiempo posible. Show more

Anders Sveen

Anders Sveen

With 20 years in software development, Anders has held various roles but consistently gravitated toward development and coding. Most recently, he served as lead developer at startups Porterbuddy and ZTL Payments, following a long career in consulting. He's passionate about developing streamlined systems that solve real business challenges. Driven by the belief that tech stack complexity must be reduced, he has focused extensively on DevOps, TDD, and continuous delivery throughout his career. Currently, he works as an independent technical mentor and developer, specializing in continuous delivery practices.

With 20 years in software development, Anders has held various roles but consistently gravitated toward development and coding. Most recently, he served as lead developer at startups Porterbuddy and ZTL Payments, following a long career in consulting... Show more

Anton Sankov

Anton Sankov

Anton is a Senior Software Engineer at Cast AI. At Cast AI, he is working on a product that aims to redefine the security landscape via automation. He has a strong engineering background, having previously worked at market leaders in multiple industries - from payments to cloud and infrastructure provisioning. The Kubernetes ecosystem interests him because of its elegant solutions to real-world problems and constant drive for innovation.

Anton is a Senior Software Engineer at Cast AI. At Cast AI, he is working on a product that aims to redefine the security landscape via automation. He has a strong engineering background, having previously worked at market leaders in multiple industr... Show more

Thijs Limmen

Thijs Limmen

Thijs is a passionate DevOps engineer and front-end development enthusiast, with a unique edge as an AI-powered developer. As an AI-powered developer, Thijs integrates cutting-edge AI tools into his development process. This allows him to improve code quality, boost productivity, and be any profession, ensuring that his projects stay ahead of the curve.

With over 10 years of experience in a broad range of technologies, Thijs primarily builds native apps and websites using all modern JavaScript frameworks, Blazor, and Flutter. He has a guilty pleasure for CSS and enjoys working closely with UX designers. In addition, Thijs is also very experienced as a .NET back-end developer, building event-driven architectures.

Thijs is a strong advocate for applying DevOps practices at customers' projects, focusing on team autonomy as one of the most important aspects. He enables teams to deploy their own cloud resources through Infrastructure as Code and their services through CI/CD. Thijs has also implemented an observability strategy to provide effective 24/7 support.

"You build it, you run it, you own it."

Thijs is a passionate DevOps engineer and front-end development enthusiast, with a unique edge as an AI-powered developer. As an AI-powered developer, Thijs integrates cutting-edge AI tools into his development process. This allows him to improve cod... Show more

Alex Dunn

Alex Dunn

Alex Dunn is the founder of Cephable - the platform that empowers people to control their digital world in ways that work best for them. He's also an inductee of The Game Awards Future Class, Forbes 30u30 in Boston, Microsoft MVP, and PubConf Champion. His background in accessibility, application development, and applied AI has leaned into enabling applications to do more for people and businesses using scalable architectures and design, distributed services, cloud infrastructure, and innovative edge technologies. Alex does his best to remain platform agnostic in his practices and development with specialties in C#, Kotlin, and TypeScript while building for cross-platform compatibility. You might find him speaking at all sorts of conferences and events around the world, streaming on Twitch, and on Pluralsight.

Outside technology, you can find him playing guitar, working with animal rescue, or exploring the great outdoors.

Alex Dunn is the founder of Cephable - the platform that empowers people to control their digital world in ways that work best for them. He's also an inductee of The Game Awards Future Class, Forbes 30u30 in Boston, Microsoft MVP, and PubConf Champio... Show more

Remon van Harmelen

Remon van Harmelen

Remon is a passionate technologist and cloud enthusiast specializing in Azure and containerization, particularly Kubernetes. With a strong background in cloud computing, he has dedicated his career to exploring innovative solutions that enhance operational efficiency and drive digital transformation.

As a technical blogger, Remon shares insights and best practices on deploying and managing containerized applications on Azure, with a focus on Kubernetes. He is committed to fostering knowledge sharing within the community, regularly speaking at conferences and local meetups to engage with fellow tech enthusiasts.

When not immersed in the world of technology, Remon enjoys motorcycle riding, which inspires his approach to problem-solving and creativity. He believes in the power of collaboration and strives to empower others to leverage cloud technologies to achieve their goals.

Connect with Remon to explore the latest trends in cloud computing and container orchestration!

Remon is a passionate technologist and cloud enthusiast specializing in Azure and containerization, particularly Kubernetes. With a strong background in cloud computing, he has dedicated his career to exploring innovative solutions that enhance opera... Show more

Anna Nerezova

Anna Nerezova

Anna Nerezova is a Digital and Cloud Transformation consultant and advisor with over a decade of experience in data, analytics and optimization. She is passionate about leveraging AI/ML technologies to improve businesses and create great user experiences. Anna is on the 100 Women in Analytics list by Google Analytics and is a Google Cloud Engineer Scholar. She leads the Google Developer Group in New York City, hosting events on a wide range of technical topics and is proud to be a Women Techmakers Ambassador, supporting and empowering women in tech.

Anna Nerezova is a Digital and Cloud Transformation consultant and advisor with over a decade of experience in data, analytics and optimization. She is passionate about leveraging AI/ML technologies to improve businesses and create great user experie... Show more

Bronwen Zande

Bronwen Zande

Bronwen is a developer based in Brisbane who likes to play with new technology. She is an organiser of DDD Brisbane, a Microsoft MVP and Regional Director, WTM Ambassador, Coralus (formally SheEO) activator and wildlife carer who loves to travel the world and take photos.

Bronwen is a developer based in Brisbane who likes to play with new technology. She is an organiser of DDD Brisbane, a Microsoft MVP and Regional Director, WTM Ambassador, Coralus (formally SheEO) activator and wildlife carer who loves to travel the... Show more

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