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Jordan MacAvoy is the Vice President of Marketing at Reciprocity Labs and manages the company’s go-to-market strategy and execution. Prior to joining Reciprocity, Mr. MacAvoy served in executive roles at Fundbox, a Forbes Next Billion Dollar Company, and Intuit, via their acquisition of the SaaS marketing and communications solution, Demandforce.
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Tim Mackey works within the Synopsys Software Integrity Group as a technology evangelist. He joined Synopsys as part of the Black Duck Software acquisition where he worked to bring integrated security scanning technology to Red Hat OpenShift and the Kubernetes container orchestration platforms. Prior to joining Black Duck, Tim worked at Citrix as the community manager for XenServer and was part of the Citrix Open Source Business Office. Being a technology evangelist allows Tim to apply his skills in distributed systems engineering, mission critical engineering, performance monitoring and large-scale data center operations to customer problems. He takes the lessons learned from those activities and delivers talks globally at well-known events such as RSA, OSCON, Open Source Summit, KubeCon, Interop, CA World, Container World, DevSecCon, DevOps Days and the IoT Summit. Tim is also an O’Reilly Media published author.
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Don Macvittie is a 20-year tech industry veteran leading a new technology consulting firm focused on the dev side of DevOps, Cloud, Security and Application Development.
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:Cliff Malmborg, Director of Product Marketing at Loft Labs, has extensive experience driving the adoption of developer tools that enhance the developer experience, and subsequently improve business outcomes. Prior to Loft, Cliff held positions at Hasura, Rafay, and LaunchDarkly. Cliff holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration: Marketing from the San Francisco State University Lam Family College of Business.
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Timothy Mamo loves to help growing companies make the most of the cloud by focusing on Cloud Native technologies and processes. He’s had a varied experience, from studying aerospace engineering and working in the automotive industry before moving into the world of Cloud. He enjoys working and helping others improve and understand, at times with some Mediterranean gusto.
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Vishwas Manral is the Head of Container Security and the Chief Cloud Architect at McAfee. He is the CEO of Nanosec, a container security startup acquired by McAfee in August 2019. Vishwas is the co-chair of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), Silicon Valley, and leads the effort on Serverless Security for CSA Global.
Vishwas was the Chief Technologist at HPE & the founder of Ionos Networks. He is an advisor to security companies such as Bootup Ventures and H.A.C.K. a Government accelerator for Cyber Security in Bangalore.
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Jacob Marble is an Engineering Manager at InfluxData. He has implemented, maintained, and sunset several backend services, APIs, and Big/Medium/Small Data pipelines. When he isn't writing code, Jacob hangs out with his wife and kids and flies small airplanes.
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Ionut works as a Senior Computer Scientist with the Adobe Experience Platform team. He has been developing middleware and back-end services for 16 years. He has spent the last 7 years designing, developing and operating various services with stringent high-throughput low-latency requirements. When he's not working, he enjoys trekking, playing squash or just reading a good book.
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Paul Martini is the CEO, Co-founder and chief architect of iboss. He has been recognized for his leadership and innovation, receiving the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year award and being named one of Goldman Sachs’ 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs. Paul holds over 130 issued patents in cloud, cybersecurity, networking and technology and has had his work published in many scientific journals, including the Journal of Foundations in Computer Science and the Journal of Analytical Biochemistry.
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Randy May is principal architect at Hazelcast.
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Gilad David Maayan is a technology writer who has worked with over 150 technology companies including SAP, Samsung NEXT, NetApp and Imperva, producing technical and thought leadership content that elucidates technical solutions for developers and IT leadership.
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Rob Maynard is a Solutions Architect at Trend Micro and has more than 12 years of experience working in the IT field. For the past couple of years, Rob’s main focus has been DevOps, containers and serverless technologies. When he’s not in front of a computer, he’s usually biking, shooting, golfing or spending time with his wife and two children.
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Tim McConnaughy is a Technical Marketing Engineer at Aviatrix, the cloud network security company, specializing in enterprise cloud networking solutions. With extensive experience beginning at the Navy/Marine Corps Intranet and progressing through a successful career at Cisco, where he earned his CCIE certification, Tim brings expertise in both traditional and cloud-native networking architectures. His current work focuses on developing integrated solutions that bridge multicloud environments, Kubernetes networking, and SD-WAN implementations for enterprise organizations.
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Chris McGrath is a Senior Cloud Architect with DoiT International. He has a love of optimal equipment and an addiction to efficiency and progression. A former RuneScape addict who maxed out those skills, he's committed to 20 hours of subject matter education each week to master the arts of DevOps, public and private cloud, containerization, and distributed database technologies.
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Stewart McGrath is the CEO and Co-founder of Section, an Edge Compute Platform which helps modern engineers deliver better web applications. With extensive experience leading companies in the technology space, Stewart’s passion for building teams focused on bringing technologies to market drove him to co-found and lead Section. As applications continue to evolve and end user demands for performance, security, and functionality increase, he envisions a world where developers are unencumbered by infrastructure and a better Internet is powered by the Edge.
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Hugh McKee is a developer advocate at Lightbend. He has had a long career building applications that evolved slowly, inefficiently utilized their infrastructure, and were brittle and prone to failure. Hugh has learned from his past mistakes, battle scars, and a few wins.
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Omar Mehilba is co-founder of Magalix and previously started Label Advertising and Vision Solutions. He is the father of two beautiful girls and a huge soccer fan. Omar loves talking all things cloud, startups and helping others.
Dave Melillo
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Julie Meringer is President at Your Call, an engagement platform purpose-built for sports and entertainment properties that allows fans to impact live events. A 25-year veteran of the technology industry, Julie has vast experience building companies, products and teams, and was one of the original members of Forrester Research, Inc.
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Jimmy Mesta is CTO and co-founder of Rad Security, formerly KSOC. Jimmy is a cloud-native security expert focused on building real-time Kubernetes security products. He's a veteran engineering leader who has held senior positions at companies including Signal Sciences (acquired by Fastly) and Invoca. Jimmy created and maintains the OWASP Top Ten for Kubernetes and has presented at global conferences including KubeCon, RSA, CactusCon and AppSec USA.
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Hi, my name is Fabian Met. As an IT strategy consultant for our customers, I use my broad experience as an Infrastructure Engineer and a Trainer at Fullstaq to deliver knowledge and expertise to the customer.
Using DevOps Principles, Open Source Software and lots of people skills, I am able to help businesses reach the next level in their IT landscape.
From architecting improved solutions to guiding teams to use them to implement improvements, I am able to help businesses at every level of their IT department.
Most importantly, I am a big nerd. Please talk nerdy to me!
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Svenja Michal is a technical writer at the cloud hosting provider Hetzner Cloud based in Germany. She has spent several years writing and reviewing tutorials and contributing a broad variety of technical content to the Hetzner Community.
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Mariusz is a Community Manager at Spacelift, a flexible management platform for infrastructure-as-code. He is passionate about automation, DevOps, and open source solutions. In his free time, he enjoys car detailing, swimming and nonfiction books.
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Matt Middleton-Leal is Managing Director for EMEA at Qualys, a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based IT, security and compliance solutions designed to streamline and consolidate customer’s security and compliance solutions in a single platform. Qualys helps organizations build security into digital transformation initiatives for greater agility, better business outcomes, and substantial cost savings. Matt has over 20 years' experience in the cybersecurity industry with a deep understanding of both customers' and suppliers' needs. Matt is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP®).
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Kendall Miller handles partnerships and public-facing events on behalf of Axiom for the future and glory of the new world of logging.
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Mike Miracle is the Chief Strategy Officer for Catalogic Software and its new venture CloudCasa.io. Mike is a strategy, marketing, and operations executive with extensive experience in technology infrastructure including storage, virtualization, networking, and cybersecurity. He has built and led global marketing operations as the CMO for multiple companies including BlackRidge and SevOne, and consulted and advised over 25 high tech companies on strategy, operations, and M&A. As the head of corporate development at VERITAS Software, Mike led M&A, licensing and investments during its high growth years completing 11 acquisitions and 10 investments that propelled the company's dramatic growth to $1.5B in revenue. He has held senior management and software development positions at AT&T Bell Labs, and Unix Labs, Novell, and HP, and board positions at Precise Software, Connected Corp, and others. Mike holds an MS EE from Stanford University and a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin.
Tracy Miranda
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Tracy Miranda is the executive director of the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) where she leads the mission to improve the world’s capacity to deliver software with security and speed.
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Akhil Mittal is a recognized cybersecurity leader with over two decades of experience in application security, cloud security, and DevSecOps. As a Gartner Cybersecurity Ambassador and Senior Manager at Synopsys, he leads key security initiatives, helping global organizations strengthen their defenses against advanced cyber threats. Akhil has worked closely with CISOs and executive leadership to align security strategies with business goals, ensuring robust protection across industries. He also contributes his expertise through leading cybersecurity publications and serves as a judge for top industry awards and hackathons. Certified in CISSP and CCSP, his work continues to shape the future of cybersecurity, driving innovation and resilience worldwide.
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James Monek is a Technology Manager and Solutions Architect at Unisys Corp where he leads agile teams to deploy leading edge solutions. James has more than 20 years of experience in IT, focusing on team leadership, cloud computing, containers, Agile Methodology, continuous integration services and solutions architecture. James earned a BS degree from University of Dayton and an MBA from Saint Joseph's University. James is passionate about building successful teams, cloud computing, automation and solutions architecture, you can reach out to him on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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John Morello is the Chief Technology Officer at Twistlock. As CTO, John leads the work with strategic customers and partners and drives the product roadmap. Prior to Twistlock, John was the CISO of Albemarle, a Fortune 500 global chemical company. Before that, John spent 14 years at Microsoft, in both Microsoft Consulting Services and product teams. He ran feature teams that shipped security technologies in Windows, Azure, and Office 365 and served as the Lead Architect of the hybrid cloud consulting team for the Americas. A self-proclaimed "public school guy," John is passionate about building out more modern curricula for cybersecurity. In fact, in May 2018 he established a Twistlock outpost at Lousiana State University’s Innovation Park in order to pay off this vision. John lives in Louisiana with his wife and two young sons. A passionate fisherman and scuba diver, he also serves as Chairman of the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana.
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William is the co-founder and CEO of Buoyant, the creator of the open source service mesh project Linkerd. Prior to Buoyant, he was an infrastructure engineer at Twitter, where he helped move Twitter from a failing monolithic Ruby on Rails app to a highly distributed, fault-tolerant microservice architecture. He was a software engineer at Powerset, Microsoft, and Adap.tv, a research scientist at MITRE, and holds an MS in computer science from Stanford University.
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Brooke Motta is CEO and co-founder of KSOC. Brooke is a dynamic leader in the cybersecurity industry who has scaled companies from seed to IPO. Brooke recognized the exponential growth in Kubernetes adoption as an opportunity to provide real-time security products as enterprise teams look to scale. Her decades of skilled leadership include executive positions at Sonatype, Wallarm, Bugcrowd and Rapid7.
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Sachin plays a leading role in the OpenShift Product management team for Red Hat Cloud Platforms delivering infrastructure solutions for hybrid cloud and edge scenarios. Sachin has worked in the technology industry since 1998 and has several key patents in NAS and file system technology. Sachin holds an Executive MBA in General Management from Boston University, and Masters in Computer Science from University of Kentucky.
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Bill Mulligan is a cloud-native pollinator and community builder. He has given talks and written articles about building the business case for cloud native. While at CNCF, he restarted the Kubernetes Community Day program and worked to grow the student community. He is currently at Isovalent, strengthening the Cilium and eBPF communities.
Rene Mulyandari
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Rene Mulyandari is a content marketer and consultant.
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Before joining Pepperdata, Ash was executive chairman for Marianas Labs, a deep learning startup sold in December 2015. Prior to that, he was CEO for Graphite Systems, a big data storage startup that was sold to EMC DSSD in August 2015. Ash also served as CTO of Yahoo, as a CEO of both public and private companies, and is on the board of several technology startups. Ash attended Harvard University, Brown University, and Stanford University. Ash also serves as Pepperdata's Chairman of the Board.
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Kaushik Mysur is the Director of Product Management at Instaclustr, which provides a managed service platform of open source technologies such as Apache Cassandra, Apache Spark, Elasticsearch and Apache Kafka. His previous experience includes product management roles at Avoka and Ahrefs, and he was a co-founder at Raydar, an image search engine. Kaushik works out of Instaclustr's Australia office.
