Information & Communications Technology

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

Valeria Salis

Valeria Salis

As a Green Software Advocate and Tech Sustainability Consultant, my mission is helping companies and professionals build more sustainable, low-carbon digital solutions. Since discovering technology's environmental impact in early 2023, I've become a recognized speaker at major tech conferences and co-founded Green Software Italia community. I believe in responsible technology that creates positive impact for both businesses and the environment.

As a Green Software Advocate and Tech Sustainability Consultant, my mission is helping companies and professionals build more sustainable, low-carbon digital solutions. Since discovering technology's environmental impact in early 2023, I've become a ... Show more

Bryan Finster

Bryan Finster

I'm a DevOps and continuous delivery advocate with three decades of experience building and operating mission-critical systems for global enterprises.
I help organizations modernize legacy applications, implement secure software delivery, and enable teams to deliver software safely, quickly, and without drama.

I'm the maintainer of MinimumCD.org and DojoConsortium.org and the author of the ScaledAgileDevOps.com parody agile scaling framework.

I'm a DevOps and continuous delivery advocate with three decades of experience building and operating mission-critical systems for global enterprises. I help organizations modernize legacy applications, implement secure software delivery, and enable... Show more

Oleksandr Tilnyi

Oleksandr Tilnyi

Oleksandr is a seasoned developer with strong knowledge in mobile development and outdoor apps. Proffessionaly involved to mobile development with over 10 projects in different domains. He likes contributing to the Flutter community through public speaking and smaller articles. In private life, he plays tennis, loves Star Wars, and good food:)

Oleksandr is a seasoned developer with strong knowledge in mobile development and outdoor apps. Proffessionaly involved to mobile development with over 10 projects in different domains. He likes contributing to the Flutter community through public sp... Show more

Anders Norås

Anders Norås

Anders Norås started out in arts and design, but for the last 25 years he has been creating magic with code instead of paint. Blending creativity with technical skill, he brings a perspective on technology that is as much about people as it is about software.

He has given more than 100 talks at conferences around the world. His presentations are not just lectures, they are experiences. With a sharp delivery and high energy, Anders turns even dry technical material into something lively, memorable and often funny.

Whether you are into computer science, design, media or anything else, Anders offers insights that will make you think and probably make you laugh. He does not just talk about technology. He brings it to life.

Anders Norås started out in arts and design, but for the last 25 years he has been creating magic with code instead of paint. Blending creativity with technical skill, he brings a perspective on technology that is as much about people as it is about ... Show more

Rubén Gómez García

Rubén Gómez García

I am a Software Development Engineer at Plain Concepts, specializing in Microsoft technologies. My day-to-day activities revolve around backend development, DevOps, and cloud-related tasks, driven by my passion for technology. During my free time, I dedicate myself to amateur musical theater and thoroughly enjoy performing in front of an audience whenever I have something to share.

I am a Software Development Engineer at Plain Concepts, specializing in Microsoft technologies. My day-to-day activities revolve around backend development, DevOps, and cloud-related tasks, driven by my passion for technology. During my free time, I ... Show more

Islam Nurul Yakin

Islam Nurul Yakin

I'm an Infrastructure Engineer at SEVIMA, focused on internal developer platforms and observability for multi-cloud systems. I've automated workflows that slashed provisioning time by ~92%. I also work as a teaching assistant at BINUS Online and speak regularly at OpenInfra, AWS User Group, and GDG events.

I'm an Infrastructure Engineer at SEVIMA, focused on internal developer platforms and observability for multi-cloud systems. I've automated workflows that slashed provisioning time by ~92%. I also work as a teaching assistant at BINUS Online and spea... Show more

Fernando Prada

Fernando Prada

I’m an AI architect and Technical Lead at Devoteam Spain. I design generative AI solutions and multi-agent systems in Python, integrated with Microsoft environments (Azure/OpenAI) and corporate APIs. I’ve led intelligent automation and semantic search projects for several clients across Spain.

I’m an AI architect and Technical Lead at Devoteam Spain. I design generative AI solutions and multi-agent systems in Python, integrated with Microsoft environments (Azure/OpenAI) and corporate APIs. I’ve led intelligent automation and semantic searc... Show more

Domagoj Pavlešić

Domagoj Pavlešić

Developer with kids. Geek entrepreneur and lifelong tech enthusiast. C# magician, Azure friendly, and passionate about building useful things. Works at dizzy.hr and founded Sessionize.com. Always curious, learning, experimenting, and turning ideas into software.

Developer with kids. Geek entrepreneur and lifelong tech enthusiast. C# magician, Azure friendly, and passionate about building useful things. Works at dizzy.hr and founded Sessionize.com. Always curious, learning, experimenting, and turning ideas in... Show more

Fernando Perales

Fernando Perales

Fer is a software engineer who writes web applications in his favorite language: Ruby. He has been working as a software consultant for around 13 years and now is continuing the consulting path as development team lead at thoughtbot.

Fer is a software engineer who writes web applications in his favorite language: Ruby. He has been working as a software consultant for around 13 years and now is continuing the consulting path as development team lead at thoughtbot. Show more

Craig Bryden

Craig Bryden

Craig Bryden has been a BI / Data Analytics specialist for over 25 years. Craig is a former Microsoft Data Platform MVP and is the founder of the QLD Power BI and Fabric User Group.

Craig Bryden has been a BI / Data Analytics specialist for over 25 years. Craig is a former Microsoft Data Platform MVP and is the founder of the QLD Power BI and Fabric User Group. Show more

Hari Krishnan

Hari Krishnan

Hari Krishnan is the author of Spec-Driven Development: Engineering with Intent (https://www.manning.com/books/spec-driven-development), currently available through Manning’s MEAP. He has published an InfoQ article on enterprise adoption of Spec-Driven Development (https://www.infoq.com/articles/enterprise-spec-driven-development/) and serves as a maintainer (Technical Direction Advisor) to OpenSpec (https://github.com/Fission-AI/openspec). He is also the creator of Intent-Driven Dev (https://intent-driven.dev/).

Hari is the Founder and CEO of Polarizer Technologies (https://polarizer.in/), where he helps teams build AI-native products and adopt AI-augmented development practices at scale. He has over two decades of experience across finance, telecom, logistics, and retail, and has led enterprise-wide initiatives in architecture, developer experience, test automation, and AI adoption.

Hari has spoken at several international conferences and actively contributes to open-source projects. His current areas of interest include AI-native software engineering, Intent-Driven Development, Context Engineering and Harness Engineering.

Hari Krishnan is the author of Spec-Driven Development: Engineering with Intent (https://www.manning.com/books/spec-driven-development), currently available through Manning’s MEAP. He has published an InfoQ article on enterprise adoption of Spec-Driv... Show more

Bryam David Vega Moreno

Bryam David Vega Moreno

I am a Lead Consultant Developer at Thoughtworks with over seven years of experience designing and implementing scalable, high-performance solutions using Java and modern architectural patterns.

Throughout my career, I’ve led agile teams in building systems based on clean architecture, microservices, and event-driven design, always emphasizing engineering excellence and long-term maintainability.

My work focuses on integrating technology and design to build resilient, cloud-native platforms that are easy to evolve and operate.

I am passionate about software craftsmanship, architecture principles, and helping teams deliver solutions that are both elegant and practical.

I am a Lead Consultant Developer at Thoughtworks with over seven years of experience designing and implementing scalable, high-performance solutions using Java and modern architectural patterns. Throughout my career, I’ve led agile teams in buildi... Show more

Diyar Saadi Ali

Diyar Saadi Ali

Diyar Saadi Ali is a cybersecurity expert specializing in cybercrime investigations, SOC operations, and malware analysis. A certified MITRE ATT&CK Contributor and CVE discoverer, including CVE-2024-25400, CVE-2024-25399, and CVE-2026-20841, Diyar helps organizations defend against evolving digital threats.

Diyar has spoken at major international conferences including Black Hat MEA in Saudi Arabia, DeepSec in Vienna, COSAC in Ireland, VulnCon in India, BSides Budapest, BSides Ireland , THCon Party, and the Arab Cyber Security Conference in Egypt. With extensive hands-on experience and a strong focus on analyst enablement, Diyar delivers practical and real-world malware analysis training.

Diyar Saadi Ali is a cybersecurity expert specializing in cybercrime investigations, SOC operations, and malware analysis. A certified MITRE ATT&CK Contributor and CVE discoverer, including CVE-2024-25400, CVE-2024-25399, and CVE-2026-20841, Diyar he... Show more

Prasanth Baskar

Prasanth Baskar

Prasanth Baskar is a Software Engineer and a core contributor to the CNCF Harbor project. loves mentoring new contributors through LFX Mentorship and also an active contributor to kitops, oras, kubernetes. I have spoken at KubeCon, OpenSSF Community day, CNCF Meetups and various foss communities.

Prasanth Baskar is a Software Engineer and a core contributor to the CNCF Harbor project. loves mentoring new contributors through LFX Mentorship and also an active contributor to kitops, oras, kubernetes. I have spoken at KubeCon, OpenSSF Community ... Show more

Ashish Kattamuri

Ashish Kattamuri

Ashish Kattamuri is a Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of experience designing and scaling large-scale backend systems. He specializes in building resilient, high-throughput services and solving complex challenges around data-intensive pipelines, distributed architectures, and cost-efficient scaling in cloud-native environments.

Beyond production engineering, Ashish actively contributes to the research community in AI/ML systems, with publications at top venues such as NeurIPS, ACL, ICLR and AAAI.

Ashish Kattamuri is a Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of experience designing and scaling large-scale backend systems. He specializes in building resilient, high-throughput services and solving complex challenges around data-intensive pipe... Show more

Jamie Danielson

Jamie Danielson

Jamie is a Senior Software Engineer at Honeycomb where she works on instrumentation libraries. She is an active contributor to multiple OpenTelemetry projects, and is a maintainer for OpenTelemetry JavaScript. When she’s not working she’s playing dek hockey.

Jamie is a Senior Software Engineer at Honeycomb where she works on instrumentation libraries. She is an active contributor to multiple OpenTelemetry projects, and is a maintainer for OpenTelemetry JavaScript. When she’s not working she’s playing dek... Show more

Tomas Vitvar

Tomas Vitvar

Tomas Vitvar is a seasoned technology leader with over 20 years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, and cloud-native infrastructure. He is the head of architecture and advocacy at k8shell, an open-source Kubernetes-native platform for provisioning secure, isolated workspaces for developers and AI agents. The platform combines on-demand development environments with built-in runtime security and threat detection. Previously, Tomas spent 15 years at Oracle, most recently as Director of Technology, where he worked with organizations such as Vodafone UK, IKEA, and Volvo on designing and operating Kubernetes-based cloud-native platforms. His work spans full-stack development, infrastructure design, troubleshooting, and performance tuning. He has published over 40 papers in international venues such as IEEE Internet Computing and IEEE Software, co-authored a book on Web and SOA technologies for e-government, and co-organized several research events, including the AAAI Spring Symposium at Stanford University. Tomas holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Czech Technical University in Prague, where he is also an associate professor at the Faculty of Information Technology.

Tomas Vitvar is a seasoned technology leader with over 20 years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, and cloud-native infrastructure. He is the head of architecture and advocacy at k8shell, an open-source Kubernetes-native platform for prov... Show more

Varun Joshi

Varun Joshi

Varun is a Senior Data Engineer with 12+ years of experience in designing, building,and optimizing scalable data pipelines and architectures.Proven expertise in data warehousing, ETL/ELT processes, and cloud platforms. Passionate about leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML).Designed and deployed AI-driven Data solutions, integrating LLM-powered coding assistants into Data Engineering to produce AI solutions for customers. Focused on leveraging LLMs and advanced engineering to build scalable, secure, and trustworthy platforms, resulting in significant efficiency gains, reduced on-call burden,and improved customer trust.

Currently Driving AI adoption across teams to enhance productivity, streamline deployments, and improve end-user experience.

Beyond his engineering role, Varun is a Fellow at IETE, IEEE-published author, a technical writer on DZone and Hackernoon, and a conference speaker whose work has been accepted at international industry events. Varun has been reviewing technical books with international publishers along with Judging International Awards and Conferences.

Varun is a Senior Data Engineer with 12+ years of experience in designing, building,and optimizing scalable data pipelines and architectures.Proven expertise in data warehousing, ETL/ELT processes, and cloud platforms. Passionate about leveraging Art... Show more

Ambili Thottathil

Ambili Thottathil

Ambili is a Principal Consultant in Analytics with Rittman Mead Consulting LTD with an industry experience of around 19 years. Her special focus is on Oracle Analytics, Oracle Digital Assistant, Oracle Database, Big Data and Graph DB primarily. Ambili is a passionate trainer who has trained many batches in Oracle DB development, Oracle Big Data and Oracle Analytics Cloud as a passion. Ambili has been a frequent Speaker at various international Oracle user group conferences since 2017 and is certified as an Oracle Cloud Platform Enterprise Analytics Professional, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Digital Assistant Professional and Oracle Certified Professional in Oracle Database Development. She is also a certified associate in Oracle Machine Learning using Autonomous Database, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oracle Cloud Data Management. She has also been actively blogging and taking frequent webinars in her organisation forums.
In her own words, she is an IT Professional by career, a Speaker by passion and an Artist by soul!

Ambili is a Principal Consultant in Analytics with Rittman Mead Consulting LTD with an industry experience of around 19 years. Her special focus is on Oracle Analytics, Oracle Digital Assistant, Oracle Database, Big Data and Graph DB primarily. Ambil... Show more

Fabrizio Volpe

Fabrizio Volpe

Microsoft MVP Security , Identity & Access | Senior Solutions Consultant M365 @ Exponential-e | Author, Speaker, Blogger | I am a seasoned IT professional with over two decades of experience in Modern Workplace and identity solutions, currently a Senior Consultant at Exponential-e. My work centers on Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Entra, and Microsoft 365: designing and troubleshooting real-world device management, Conditional Access, and Copilot governance implementations for clients.

Earlier in my career, I built deep expertise in Unified Communication, with recognized contributions across Microsoft Teams, Office 365, Skype for Business, Lync, and Active Directory, work that earned me multiple Microsoft MVP awards between 2011 and 2017.

I am the author of technical books and articles, and a regular speaker at Microsoft community conferences across Europe. I am also one of the organizers of BeConnected Day, one of Italy's leading community conferences on Microsoft 365 and modern collaboration, where I help shape content for a wide audience of IT professionals and foster connections within the Microsoft community.

Microsoft MVP Security , Identity & Access | Senior Solutions Consultant M365 @ Exponential-e | Author, Speaker, Blogger | I am a seasoned IT professional with over two decades of experience in Modern Workplace and identity solutions, currently a ... Show more

Sameer Mhaisekar

Sameer Mhaisekar

I'm the founder organizer of Experts Live India, organizing physical and online conferences. I also host a tech/semi tech podcast, Experts Live India podcast.

I'm a 3x Microsoft MVP and been awarded Azure content hero and Azure community hero badgers by Microsoft.

I'm active in the Copilot, Power Platform and Governance space.

I'm the founder organizer of Experts Live India, organizing physical and online conferences. I also host a tech/semi tech podcast, Experts Live India podcast. I'm a 3x Microsoft MVP and been awarded Azure content hero and Azure community hero badg... Show more

Mohamed Wali

Mohamed Wali

Mohamed is working as a Senior Solutions Architect for AWS Solutions Architecture team based out of Amsterdam, Netherlands. He is a subject matter expert in Cloud Architecture helping the customers scale their use of AWS safely and securely, accelerate their adoption of cloud and driving the value of their investment in AWS while acting as a technical liaison between customers and product teams to help evolve the AWS platform.

Mohamed is working as a Senior Solutions Architect for AWS Solutions Architecture team based out of Amsterdam, Netherlands. He is a subject matter expert in Cloud Architecture helping the customers scale their use of AWS safely and securely, accelera... Show more

Michele Blum

Michele Blum

I'm Michele Blum. I was born in Switzerland and have both Swiss and Italian roots. I'm 27 years old, and I can speak English, German, and Italian fluently.

In my leisure time, I engage in activities that reflect my energetic and dynamic personality - gym, kickboxing, and exploring the adrenaline-pumping worlds of cars and motorcycles are a few of my passions.

When it comes to work, my interest lies deeply in tech. I'm particularly drawn to Azure Virtual Desktop, Entra ID, Identity & Access Management, Cloud Security, and Azure Automation with DevOps and Bicep. Additionally, I have expertise in Exchange Online, Exchange Online Protection, Microsoft Defender for Office, Microsoft Intune, and Azure compute and networking. My skills also extend to managing SQL databases and hybrid IT architectures. And yes, a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I've heard a thing or two about on-premise infrastructures and can navigate them with ease.

Transforming my set of skills and interests into practical experiences, I'm committed to making valuable contributions in the Microsoft community.

I'm Michele Blum. I was born in Switzerland and have both Swiss and Italian roots. I'm 27 years old, and I can speak English, German, and Italian fluently. In my leisure time, I engage in activities that reflect my energetic and dynamic personalit... Show more

Mark Kempers

Mark Kempers

Passionate OCI professional and Oracle Apps engineer. Working for a few years with Oracle products and I always try to get the best out it!

Focusing on networking and security and helping with migrations of workloads to OCI or implementing applications to OCI. Designing, building and maintaining tenants.

With that comes experience and knowledge that I am sharing with the community.

Passionate OCI professional and Oracle Apps engineer. Working for a few years with Oracle products and I always try to get the best out it! Focusing on networking and security and helping with migrations of workloads to OCI or implementing applica... Show more

Valentine Rutto

Valentine Rutto

Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience building mobile and AI-powered products. Passionate about practical engineering, developer communities, mentoring, and helping others turn ideas into real-world solutions.

Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience building mobile and AI-powered products. Passionate about practical engineering, developer communities, mentoring, and helping others turn ideas into real-world solutions. Show more

Mathieu Santostefano

Mathieu Santostefano

As a developer for almost 15 years, I work with Symfony on a daily basis. Having worked with almost every version since 1.4, I have followed the evolution of the entire PHP ecosystem, eventually becoming an active contributor and joining the Symfony Core Team in 2021! My favorite topics are about i18n, authentication / authorization, performance and software architecture.

Still passionate about this community and its enthusiasm, I enjoy sharing my experience on stage at conferences such as SymfonyLive, SymfonyCon, API Platform Con or Confoo!

As a developer for almost 15 years, I work with Symfony on a daily basis. Having worked with almost every version since 1.4, I have followed the evolution of the entire PHP ecosystem, eventually becoming an active contributor and joining the Symfony ... Show more

Lorenzo De Francesco

Lorenzo De Francesco

I am the CTO of Azimut Marketplace with over 10 years of experience in IT development. In the last year alone, I have successfully reduced IT costs by 80%, enhancing the operational efficiency of the platform. My primary commitment is to create IT solutions that not only drive profits but are also robust, durable, and flexible enough to meet the ever-evolving needs of our modern society. I am driven by a passion for innovation and technology, and I consistently strive to promote excellence in the management and development of technological systems.

I am the CTO of Azimut Marketplace with over 10 years of experience in IT development. In the last year alone, I have successfully reduced IT costs by 80%, enhancing the operational efficiency of the platform. My primary commitment is to create IT so... Show more

Erlend Rushfeldt

Erlend Rushfeldt

Erlend works as Cloud & AI Platforms tech lead at Atea in Norway, specializing in Microsoft Azure with expert-level certifications. He has extensive experience supporting both public and private sector organizations, offering practical insights into governing and securing cloud-native environments. Drawing on real-world scenarios, Erlend brings a broad and hands-on perspective to cloud management and security.

Erlend works as Cloud & AI Platforms tech lead at Atea in Norway, specializing in Microsoft Azure with expert-level certifications. He has extensive experience supporting both public and private sector organizations, offering practical insights into ... Show more

Dubravko Bogović

Dubravko Bogović

I am an electrical engineer turned programmer. I love new technologies, smart homes and renewable energy as well as Science Fiction and fantasy and board games. I love making quizzes for conventions and playing board game tournaments or just attending a game day.
Also love badminton and everything related to it.

I am an electrical engineer turned programmer. I love new technologies, smart homes and renewable energy as well as Science Fiction and fantasy and board games. I love making quizzes for conventions and playing board game tournaments or just attendin... Show more

Madzy Stikkelorum

Madzy Stikkelorum

Madzy is a Data Analytics Consultant at Quanto, organizer of the Power BI Summer School in the Netherlands and former Board Secretary of the Dutch Power BI User Group. With a master’s degree in Mathematics, analyzing data has always been one of her passions, but in the last few years this has extended to organizing events and sharing her knowledge with the community. She does this as a public speaker at conferences, and in blog posts that can be found at https://quanto.eu/blog/.

Madzy is a Data Analytics Consultant at Quanto, organizer of the Power BI Summer School in the Netherlands and former Board Secretary of the Dutch Power BI User Group. With a master’s degree in Mathematics, analyzing data has always been one of her p... Show more

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