Travel & Tourism

Experts in the promotion and management of travel experiences, focusing on leisure, business, and cultural exploration

Layth Ayache

Layth Ayache

I’m a Lebanese AI engineer working at the intersection of computer vision, applied machine learning, and real-world deployment. My work focuses on building practical AI systems in areas like accessibility, automation, and intelligent vision applications. I’m especially interested in the gap between promising prototypes and systems that can actually survive outside controlled environments. Through projects like OmniSign and other applied AI builds, I explore how to design, test, and ship machine learning systems that are both technically solid and genuinely useful.

I’m a Lebanese AI engineer working at the intersection of computer vision, applied machine learning, and real-world deployment. My work focuses on building practical AI systems in areas like accessibility, automation, and intelligent vision applicati... Show more

Vijay Kumar Soni

Vijay Kumar Soni

Vijay Kumar Soni is the Founder and CEO of Maghraut Technologies, with over eight years of experience supporting organizations in the practical and scalable adoption of modern technologies. He is an active contributor to the Salesforce community and regularly participates in community-led events. Vijay works closely with small and growing businesses to simplify digital transformation using Salesforce and other modern platforms. His approach is grounded in real-world experience, focused on solving real business challenges, and driven by a strong belief in learning through shared stories and community collaboration.

Vijay Kumar Soni is the Founder and CEO of Maghraut Technologies, with over eight years of experience supporting organizations in the practical and scalable adoption of modern technologies. He is an active contributor to the Salesforce community and ... Show more

Danielle Connolly

Danielle Connolly

Danielle Connolly is a disability advocate, content creator, speaker, and business and marketing professional. Born with a rare, still-undiagnosed muscle disease, Danielle has navigated unique life experiences that have shaped her passions and purpose. She shares her perspective through Daniellevates - a platform dedicated to elevating conversations about disability, rare disease, and chronic illness with a mix of humor, storytelling, education, and real-life adventures.

Danielle Connolly is a disability advocate, content creator, speaker, and business and marketing professional. Born with a rare, still-undiagnosed muscle disease, Danielle has navigated unique life experiences that have shaped her passions and purpos... Show more

Jeannette Kaplun

Jeannette Kaplun

An award-winning bilingual journalist, TV personality, mom, speaker and Latina content creator featured on Good Morning America, Today, Despierta América, Hoy Día, CNN en Español and other shows, Jeannette Kaplun is the founder of bilingual lifestyle magazine Hispana Global, where she offers inspiration, tips and information in English and Spanish. Previously she cofounded multimedia parenting company Todobebé and was one of the first Latina mom bloggers. She was a Special Advisor to The Bank of America Institute for Women's Entrepreneurship at Cornell and was included in the Forbes #Next1000 2021 list. Her latest venture is Midlife Elevated, which hosts workshops for women over 40. Find her on social media @jeannettekaplun.

An award-winning bilingual journalist, TV personality, mom, speaker and Latina content creator featured on Good Morning America, Today, Despierta América, Hoy Día, CNN en Español and other shows, Jeannette Kaplun is the founder of bilingual lifestyle... Show more

Brittany Martin Déjean

Brittany Martin Déjean

FOMU -the fear of messing up- leads to missed opportunities, disconnection and stagnation in individuals, teams and organizations. Through
powerful stories and real-world scenarios, Brittany equips high-achieving professionals with practical strategies that build psychological safety and create cultures where people feel safe to speak up, take risks and innovate.

A car accident that killed her brother and left her father a quadriplegic ignited Brittany’s passion to rethink human connection, assumptions and our reaction to fear. A former non-profit founder and employee at Airbnb, Brittany's transformed the perspectives of thousands of professionals around the world. She's spoken at venues like SXSW, NBC Universal, and Deutsche Bank and her work has been featured in NPR, Forbes and USA Today.

FOMU -the fear of messing up- leads to missed opportunities, disconnection and stagnation in individuals, teams and organizations. Through powerful stories and real-world scenarios, Brittany equips high-achieving professionals with practical strateg... Show more

Nareshkumar Kondur Nagabhushan

Nareshkumar Kondur Nagabhushan

Honest, pragmatic and laid back, Naresh delivers motivational messages with leadership, resilience, perseverance, and ˜It's possible' as his main themes. With his unique skill to use tales of his adventures to inspire, he speaks about his explorations in a way that will relate to corporate audiences due to his former career as a technology consultant. Stories from his outdoor adventures and what it takes to overcome extreme challenges are topics that are relevant to corporations. He has spoken for some of the Fortune 500 organizations, universities, schools, and NGO's all over the world. He strongly believes that "You don't get ahead by having the potential to do something, you get ahead by doing it."

Honest, pragmatic and laid back, Naresh delivers motivational messages with leadership, resilience, perseverance, and ˜It's possible' as his main themes. With his unique skill to use tales of his adventures to inspire, he speaks about his exploration... Show more

Sebastian Tanzer

Sebastian Tanzer

Sebastian Tanzer ist Mitgründer und CEO des 2018 gegründeten Linzer Unternehmens triply. Die Software analysiert automatisiert die Mobilität von Großunternehmen und Großveranstaltungen – inklusive Kosten, CO₂-Emissionen und Einsparpotenzialen – und liefert darauf basierend konkrete Optimierungsvorschläge und passende Mobilitätslösungen.
Als Absolvent des Smart‑Mobility‑Management‑Programms der Universität St. Gallen und Mitglied der Forbes‑Europe „30 Under 30“ verfolgt er das Ziel, die Busmobilität weltweit nachhaltig, effizient und datenbasiert zu gestalten.

Sebastian Tanzer ist Mitgründer und CEO des 2018 gegründeten Linzer Unternehmens triply. Die Software analysiert automatisiert die Mobilität von Großunternehmen und Großveranstaltungen – inklusive Kosten, CO₂-Emissionen und Einsparpotenzialen – und l... Show more

Vitalii Honcharuk

Vitalii Honcharuk

Sr. Principal Software Engineer and VP of Engineering at Green Dot Corporation (NASDAQ: GDOT), directing a $10M+ financial systems transformation serving 200MM+ accounts. Managing projects involving 100+ cross-functional team members across 8 divisions.

Master's degree in Accounting & Audit from Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics. 15+ years leading large-scale financial platform modernization at Green Dot, Verizon ($11B revenue), Microsoft (Dynamics CRM), and Telenor ($110B, 7 companies, 8 countries).

Founder of Estate Deals Club (estatedeals.club) — a data-driven real estate investment platform applying enterprise-grade AI and analytics to off-market deal sourcing.

Certified Executive Member at Leaders Excellence at Harvard Square. C# Corner Most Valuable Professional & Gold Member (rank #414, 183k+ article views). Published author with 22+ articles on enterprise engineering across C# Corner, HackerNoon, and Medium. Tech instructor at OTUS with 9,700+ graduates across 4 courses. Awards judge for Globee® and Stevie® Business Awards. Judge & mentor at 25+ hackathons including HackHarvard, LA Hacks, and SF Hacks.

Sr. Principal Software Engineer and VP of Engineering at Green Dot Corporation (NASDAQ: GDOT), directing a $10M+ financial systems transformation serving 200MM+ accounts. Managing projects involving 100+ cross-functional team members across 8 divisio... Show more

Caleb Duff

Caleb Duff

A dedicated and evolving Software Engineer and Programs Lead.

A dedicated and evolving Software Engineer and Programs Lead. Show more

Dan Day

Dan Day

I show CMOs and Marketing Leaders how to build world-class creative firepower without the overhead.
Straight from someone who’s spent 25 years ‘on the tools’ and scaling global agencies.

Hi, I’m Dan Day 👋

A creative business leader and founder who thrives on building ideas, brands, and the people behind them.

After nearly a decade bootstrapping and scaling Invisible Artists from a single desk into a global production powerhouse (working with brands like Spotify, Facebook, and The Body Shop), I realised that the "new age" of digital asset creation requires a different approach: agility over ego.

Now, through The Guroos, I help challenger brands and marketing departments get noticed.

📣 Creative Operations for CMOs: Plugging in world-class content through web, design, film, and animation experts exactly when your internal team needs the boost.

📣 Strategy for Heads of Marketing & PR: Navigating the "new age" (AI) of digital assets—ensuring your content isn't just "made," but made to move the needle.

📣 Support for Fractional Leaders: Acting as your dedicated creative arm so you can deliver big-agency results without the big-agency headcount.

📣 The Guroos Collective: Access to my hand-picked network of high-performing thinkers, makers, and doers in brand, design, and motion.

My career started in 1999 at DDB, dubbing tapes and teaching myself to edit after hours. That "scrappy" start still defines my work ethic today: a belief that the best advertising blends raw craft with commercial impact.

If you’re a CMO or Marketing Leader ready to turn your content into a competitive advantage, let's talk.

📧 dan@theguroos.com
The Guroos: Good people. Doing good work. For good brands. 🚀

I show CMOs and Marketing Leaders how to build world-class creative firepower without the overhead. Straight from someone who’s spent 25 years ‘on the tools’ and scaling global agencies. Hi, I’m Dan Day 👋 A creative business leader and founde... Show more

Yaswanth Reddy Arumulla

Yaswanth Reddy Arumulla

Yaswanth Reddy is a Lead DevOps Engineer at Arealis, where he works on making cloud infrastructure smarter and more reliable with AWS, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD practices. He loves experimenting with how cloud and AI come together from building scalable pipelines to using embeddings and vector search in real-world systems. Outside of work, he enjoys mentoring engineers and sharing what he learns with the developer community.

Yaswanth Reddy is a Lead DevOps Engineer at Arealis, where he works on making cloud infrastructure smarter and more reliable with AWS, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD practices. He loves experimenting with how cloud and AI come together from building sc... Show more

Jesse Skinner

Jesse Skinner

I've been building web apps that last since 2001.

I've been building web apps that last since 2001. Show more

Sandeep Kumar P

Sandeep Kumar P

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandykumar93/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandykumar93/ Show more

Nicolò Cambiaso Erizzo

Nicolò Cambiaso Erizzo

Communications expert, event organizer, community gatherer. OSS contributor, sailing the K8s ocean since 2019. Head of Marketing @Mia-Platform.
Strong believer that better software engineering brings to better development for the planet.

Communications expert, event organizer, community gatherer. OSS contributor, sailing the K8s ocean since 2019. Head of Marketing @Mia-Platform. Strong believer that better software engineering brings to better development for the planet. Show more

Brian McNichols

Brian McNichols

It is safe to say that I have an odd mix of experiences. After graduating from Penn State University, I worked for the federal government for a decade in various analyst roles doing things as mundane as personnel budgeting and as exciting as presenting to the Director of the FBI and testifying as an expert to grand juries.

After leaving civil service, my next decade was spent attempting to perfect theme park vacations by working for TouringPlans.com. We used statistics and lots and lots of research to optimize peoples theme park trips and I assisted in many ways from research tasks and writing to starting a travel agency to filming YouTube videos that have over 1 million views.

Now I am a consultant at Centric Consulting, helping companies rethink their data strategies. I am thrilled to once again share my experiences by speaking about data strategy, project management, consulting, statistics, theme parks and, frankly, anything else.

It is safe to say that I have an odd mix of experiences. After graduating from Penn State University, I worked for the federal government for a decade in various analyst roles doing things as mundane as personnel budgeting and as exciting as presenti... 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

Anselmo Alexandre

Anselmo Alexandre

Hi there!
This is Anselmo,
Working with Android @SnappMobile.

Hi there! This is Anselmo, Working with Android @SnappMobile. Show more

Rich Young

Rich Young

Dynamic and decisive, I bring intense ingenuity as an AWS cloud trailblazer directing complex initiatives across the tech landscape. By spearheading high-velocity cloud native development leveraging containers, serverless, and microservices, I have led global teams to deploy disruptive AWS solutions, establishing best practices in CI/CD and observability.

Armed with intricate AWS expertise, I accelerate fluid migrations while optimising budgets, performance and reliability. As a change agent driving digital transformation, I prepare organisations for technology leadership, coaching teams through pioneering approaches to realise AWS’s game-changing capabilities.

Dynamic and decisive, I bring intense ingenuity as an AWS cloud trailblazer directing complex initiatives across the tech landscape. By spearheading high-velocity cloud native development leveraging containers, serverless, and microservices, I have l... Show more

Milos Marinkovic

Milos Marinkovic

I like to share ideas through presentations and writing. If you see something related to technology, I'll probably like it.
I am a software enthusiast, product developer, technical leader, speaker, event organizer, and avid skier.

My main interests are organizations, apps, cloud, electronics and smart devices. I also often read or listen about innovation, computer science, and organizational management.

In my spare time, I (try to) travel, speak at conferences, coach, and work on open-source projects.

I like to share ideas through presentations and writing. If you see something related to technology, I'll probably like it. I am a software enthusiast, product developer, technical leader, speaker, event organizer, and avid skier. My main interes... Show more

Dee Bolt

Dee Bolt

I have been in the External Identity and Access Management space since 2020, helping clients architect and implement their Identity solutions and keeping their application secure.

Prior to the identity ecosystem, I was a development consultant in travel and tourism (mainly C#) and a software and database analyst for a training company. My main skillset is around system architecture, identity, C#, and SQL.

Other community contributions include the Azure Technical Contributor Program and Microsoft sponsored Identity discord channel.

I have been in the External Identity and Access Management space since 2020, helping clients architect and implement their Identity solutions and keeping their application secure. Prior to the identity ecosystem, I was a development consultant in... Show more

Jorge Vargas Garcia

Jorge Vargas Garcia

Hello, I'm Jorge Vargas, a seasoned CTO with a proven record of launching successful products and enhancing user experiences. Over my career, I've led high-performing engineering and product teams that consistently met and exceeded our key objectives, all supported by meticulously defined OKRs. My core focus has always been on fostering cross-team collaboration to maximize efficiency and resource optimization.

My expertise extends to forging robust technological and business partnerships, ensuring the unwavering
reliability of our products. When it comes to technology and platform selection, I excel in finding the sweet spot between complexity and simplicity. I firmly believe that balancing scalability with operational growth is paramount. My holistic approach covers all critical facets of the organization, maintaining a 360-degree vision in all my strategic endeavors.

I'm deeply committed to propelling our company to new heights and staying on the cutting edge of
technological innovation. I eagerly anticipate the opportunity to collaborate and collectively elevate our
company's success to the next level.

Hello, I'm Jorge Vargas, a seasoned CTO with a proven record of launching successful products and enhancing user experiences. Over my career, I've led high-performing engineering and product teams that consistently met and exceeded our key objectives... Show more

Jaime Blasco

Jaime Blasco

Jaime is a Google Developer Expert focused on Flutter. He has created and currently maintains some useful and popular packages related to this toolkit. He is a very active member of the community and co-leads the Spaniard Flutter Community.

Jaime is a Google Developer Expert focused on Flutter. He has created and currently maintains some useful and popular packages related to this toolkit. He is a very active member of the community and co-leads the Spaniard Flutter Community. Show more

Shubham Mittal

Shubham Mittal

I’m Shubham Mittal—co-founder & CEO of RedHunt Labs, with 13+ years in security engineering. I’ve built and scaled internet-wide scanners, led teams pushing the limits of external attack surface management, and serve on the BlackHat Review Board. I also co-organize Recon Village at DEFCON, where hackers, researchers, and weird ideas come to life. In my free time, I prefer doing a bike ride, playing cricket, or scanning the internet just for fun. Offensive Security, scale, and curiosity drive what I do—and I’m always up for a good conversation or a broken protocol.

I’m Shubham Mittal—co-founder & CEO of RedHunt Labs, with 13+ years in security engineering. I’ve built and scaled internet-wide scanners, led teams pushing the limits of external attack surface management, and serve on the BlackHat Review Board. I a... Show more

Magda Canarias

Magda Canarias

36 year-old, born in Portugal, lived in Barcelona, Costa Rica, on board of yachts, and currently based in The Netherlands for almost 8 years.
My career choices brought me from Hospitality to Scrum Master and Talent Manager. My mission is to make people's experience better.
I'm also very passionate about women's body literacy and fertility awareness education.

36 year-old, born in Portugal, lived in Barcelona, Costa Rica, on board of yachts, and currently based in The Netherlands for almost 8 years. My career choices brought me from Hospitality to Scrum Master and Talent Manager. My mission is to make peo... Show more

Mauricio Alvarado

Mauricio Alvarado

AWS Community Builder & Cloud Captain. Arquitecto cloud con 6 años de experiencia. Apasionado por la AI y divulgar conocimiento.

AWS Community Builder & Cloud Captain. Arquitecto cloud con 6 años de experiencia. Apasionado por la AI y divulgar conocimiento. Show more

Raphael Kalandadze

Raphael Kalandadze

I'm the co-founder and CTO of Wandero, a production-ready multi-agent system that powers automation for nearly 100 travel agencies, handling thousands of real-world requests every day. I also co-founded Tbilisi AI Lab in 2023—a small research team focused on building large language models for Georgian, one of the world’s most under-resourced languages. With a team of just four people, we built everything from scratch: we collected and cleaned 20B tokens for pretraining, 5M instruction pairs, and 0.5M DPO pairs, and trained a 12B parameter model that remains the best-performing LLM for Georgian. We also developed translation and embedding models that are SOTA in the language. After two years of focused work, we’re now preparing to open source the entire suite of models.

I'm the co-founder and CTO of Wandero, a production-ready multi-agent system that powers automation for nearly 100 travel agencies, handling thousands of real-world requests every day. I also co-founded Tbilisi AI Lab in 2023—a small research team fo... Show more

Radoslaw Szulgo

Radoslaw Szulgo

Radoslaw is a Senior Product Manager at Percona, responsible for driving Percona Software for MongoDB. He has over 15 years of experience in building distributed applications, serving as a product manager, leader, and software engineer. Radek is an Agile product development enthusiast and a fan of personal development. Outside of work, he's an amateur volleyball player.

Radoslaw is a Senior Product Manager at Percona, responsible for driving Percona Software for MongoDB. He has over 15 years of experience in building distributed applications, serving as a product manager, leader, and software engineer. Radek is an A... Show more

Sreekanth Putta

Sreekanth Putta

Sreekanth Putta is a Senior Software Engineer at SAP Concur and one of the early people inside SAP pushing AI into day-to-day engineering work. Over the last couple of years, he has built internal agents, workflow automation systems and MCPs that actually make developers faster. Because of this, he naturally became the “AI person” many teams go to, and he now runs regular internal sessions where he explains concepts, shows demos, and helps engineers use AI in real projects. His contributions earned him recognition as one of the torchbearers for applied AI inside SAP.

He got into software almost a decade ago out of a simple fascination with how code can solve problems at impossible speeds. Then OpenAI’s moment hit and it reignited that curiosity. Since then, he’s been experimenting constantly, building small tools and turning them into practical systems that people around him actually use.

Outside of work, he enjoys skydiving and tennis. And like many engineers hooked on AI right now, he ends up staying awake longer than he should, sometimes missing sleep or even catching a nap in the office or his car — all to make time for the zillion things he wants to learn and build.

Sreekanth Putta is a Senior Software Engineer at SAP Concur and one of the early people inside SAP pushing AI into day-to-day engineering work. Over the last couple of years, he has built internal agents, workflow automation systems and MCPs that act... Show more

Sebastian Häni

Sebastian Häni

Sebastian Häni, Lead Architect at FAIRTIQ, is a driving force behind critical initiatives at his organization aimed at enhancing engineering processes. He focuses on establishing a robust reliability framework, streamlining architecture decision-making, implementing innovative solutions, and optimizing data management. Sebastian holds an MSc degree in Engineering with specialization in Data Science.

Sebastian Häni, Lead Architect at FAIRTIQ, is a driving force behind critical initiatives at his organization aimed at enhancing engineering processes. He focuses on establishing a robust reliability framework, streamlining architecture decision-maki... Show more

Tom Sherman

Tom Sherman

In 2017, Tom Sherman discovered the 5th season of the year after nearly a decade of studying timekeeping and measurement systems. He then spent the next 3 years deconstructing the Gregorian Calendar and re-engineering a New Calendar system using modern math, science and logic that divides time evenly, precisely, and accurately, for the first time in the history of time. With humor, philosophy, and curiosity, Tom is able to expand your perception of reality and uncover new systems and patterns that are currently hiding in plain sight.

In 2017, Tom Sherman discovered the 5th season of the year after nearly a decade of studying timekeeping and measurement systems. He then spent the next 3 years deconstructing the Gregorian Calendar and re-engineering a New Calendar system using mode... Show more

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