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Lior Nabat is KubeMQ’s technology leader and product architect. As a serial technology entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in software ventures and product development, he brings cloud-native expertise and hands-on experience. Lior founded Tradency (financial trading technology) 14 years ago and led as the CEO since inception. Previously he held key management positions at DSPG, Alpha Cell and TdSoft. Lior holds B.A in Mathematics and Computer science from the Open University in Tel-Aviv Israel and AMP from the University of Pennsylvania-The Wharton School.
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Simon holds a Bachelor’s in Commerce and Higher Diploma in Software Engineering with over 22 years of IT experience combined with 17 years of Telecom domain knowledge. His experience spans application development, solution architecture, tool evaluation, Integrations, Operations Support, and evangelizing and looking at technology to advance business pursuits.
Simon is a Sr. Program Manager at Prodapt, a two-decade-old consulting & managed services provider with a singular focus on the connectedness industry. Prodapt’s customers range from telecom operators, digital/multi-service providers, technology, and digital platform companies in the business of connectedness. Prodapt works with global leaders including AT&T, Verizon, Lumen, Adtran, Vodafone, Liberty Global, Rogers, Deutsche Telekom, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft among many others.
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Dev Nag is the Founder and CEO of CtrlStack. In 2013, he founded Wavefront, a monitoring and analytics company that provides real-time insights into cloud infrastructure and applications. Dev led the company as Founder and CTO until its acquisition by VMware in 2017.
At VMware, Dev served in the Office of the CTO focused on developing and launching VMware’s flagship AIOps product for scaling IT operational efficiency.
Dev holds more than a dozen patents in machine learning and security. He published academic papers in computational biology and medical informatics at Stanford, where he received two degrees.
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Sanjay Nagaraj is CTO and co-founder at Traceable.ai.
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Nagarjuna Nodagala, works with HCL Technologies as DevOps technical lead with expertise on Linux, AWS, Ansible, Github, Jenkins, Hadoop and other DevOps tools and practices.
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Christoph Nagy has 20 years of working experience within the SAP industry. He has utilized this knowledge as a founding member and CEO at SecurityBridge–a global SAP security provider, serving many of the world's leading brands and now operating in the U.S. Through his efforts, the SecurityBridge Platform for SAP has become renowned as a strategic security solution for automated analysis of SAP security settings, and detection of cyber-attacks in real-time. Prior to SecurityBridge, Nagy applied his skills as a SAP technology consultant at Adidas and Audi.
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Dotan Nahum is the Head of Developer-First Security at Check Point Software Technologies. Dotan was the co-founder and CEO at Spectralops, which was acquired by Check Point Software, and now is the Head of Developer-First Security. Dotan is an experienced hands-on technological guru & code ninja. Major open-source contributor. High expertise with React, Node.js, Go, React Native, distributed systems and infrastructure (Hadoop, Spark, Docker, AWS, etc.).
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Ameet Naik is a security evangelist at PerimeterX, a provider of application security solutions that keep web businesses safe in the complex digital world, where he is responsible for the e-commerce vertical. With more than 20 years of experience in information security, Ameet has advised a number of global businesses on de-risking their migration to digital channels to drive business growth and innovation.
Aki Naito
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Rohit Nand leads Mindtree's Integrated Services and DevOps service lines. In this role, he helps customers drive faster time-to-market and cost optimization initiatives. He brings together expertise in Agile, DevOps, automation and organization change management to accelerate change and IT modernization initiatives. He is the product owner for Mindtree CAPE—an end-to-end automation platform that helps organizations accelerate their automation journey across the IT lifecycle from plan to run.
Prior to Mindtree, Rohit worked with Cambridge Technology Partners, Infosys and Capgemini among others in the areas of consulting, cloud and infrastructure management, application management, IT security, automation and IT governance. He has presented at multiple conferences including itSMF UK Annual Conference and QAI India. Rohit has a graduate degree in Computer Science and holds an MBA in IT and Finance.
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Sagar Nangare is a technology blogger, focusing on data center technologies (Networking, Telecom, Cloud, Storage) and emerging domains like Open RAN, Edge Computing, IoT, Machine Learning, AI). Based in Pune, he is currently serving Coredge.io as Director - Product Marketing.
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Prashanth Nanjundappa is vice president of product management at Progress.
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Gadi Naor, CTO and co-founder of Alcide, has over 15 years experience in leading and developing some of the key cyber security products used in data centers today.
Mike Nappi
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Michael Nappi oversees product management and engineering, leading a multifaceted team to deliver a best-of-breed AIOps solution. He defines the visition and strategy for the SL1 platform and works with key stakeholders to bring the product to market.
Mike joined ScienceLogic in 2019 to drive product innovation amid the company's rapid growth. He is evolving SL1 to elevate its most powerful features while simplifying UX, accelerating time to value, and easing accessibility via SaaS delivery. This promises to extend SL1 value to a more diverse customer set, advancing ScienceLogic's aim to become the world's premier AIOps company.
Mike's domain expertise and people-centric ethos make him a natural fit for Sciencelogic. He embraces the human element of software development, leading with the belief that high-performance teams and bold thinking produce transformational results.
Mike came to ScienceLogic from ServiceNow, where he founded teh company's ITOM business unit and drove the original product strategy. Prior, he spent 16 years at Microsoft, where he led multiple product engineering teams.
Mike holds a B.A. in history and computer applications from the University of Notre Dame.
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Arjun Narayan moved from India, where he learned programming as a child, to America for college. He studied computer science at Williams College in Massachusetts and received a PhD at Penn, focusing on distributed systems, security, privacy and scalability. After working as an engineer at Cocroach Labs, he realized there was an unmet need in the market for a powerful streaming database. He founded Materialize to meet that need.
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Sankara Narayanan has 10 years of experience in DevOps practices and tools. Currently he is a senior DevOps Specialist at HCL Technologies.
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Ovais is super passionate about everything digital!
At Astera, a Data Management solution provider, Ovais works as a content strategist and loves sharing valuable info with its users through fun, compelling content that covers the latest tech trends!
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Kent Nash is Global EVP at Solace. Joining Solace in 2005, he held sales leadership appointments in Americas, UK, Middle East and Asia Pacific. He has been an instrumental leader in scaling the business internationally and set strategies for alternative revenue resources for Solace.
Kent is working in partnership with many blue chip clients worldwide. He focuses on developing deeper and broader strategic client relationships by advising them the latest trends in event-driven architecture and how they apply to business and operation challenges. He has also been involved with numerous digital transformation projects within a broad spectrum of market verticals.
Prior to joining Solace, Kent’s professional background includes key client management positions at Newbridge Networks and Alcatel. He also served for 10 years as an ICT engineer in the British Royal Air Force.
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Olga Nasonova is a marketing and development leading expert. Having been working in Umbrella-web for several years she became an Agile certified sales strategist. She enjoys learning new and useful information about IT and also loves to share it.
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Talia Nassi is a developer advocate at Split Software where she works closely with engineering teams globally to ship software more efficiently. She is passionate about testing in production, feature flagging, canary launches, CI/CD, and A/B testing. She's also an international keynote speaker who gives conference talks on all things testing and quality. She's spoken at countless conferences, ranging from audiences of 100 to 4000!
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A seasoned technology executive and entrepreneur, Shiva Nathan — the founder and CEO of Onymos — draws upon his personal experience as a software innovator to empower businesses to reach their mobile-first digital goals. As the head of Intuit’s Platform & Services organization, his organization defined the cloud-hosted services-based unified technology platform that Intuit’s line of products like TurboTax and Quickbooks leveraged. He has also held technical and leadership positions at Oracle and CA. He understands what it takes to build robust, powerful apps that serve a broad customer base — and how to avoid the roadblocks that can get in the way. Shiva earned his bachelor’s degree with honors in computer engineering from BITS Pilani and an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.
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Facundo Navarro is Engagement Manager at intive, place where he works since 2016. Previously he was Scrum Master and Delivery Manager at the company. He graduated with a degree of Oracle Database Administrator at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (UTN) and then of Scrum Grand Master at the same university.
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Abhishek Nayak is a co-founder and the CEO of Appsmith, an open-source framework that helps developers build custom internal applications very quickly. The company’s software has been downloaded over 5 million times with users at over 1,000 enterprises in 100-plus countries. Previously, Nayak worked at Accel Partners with the investing and venture team helping its existing portfolio companies. He is an entrepreneur who has founded three other companies.
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Waqas Nazir is CEO of DigitSec. Before founding DigitSec, Waqas served as the Chief Application Security Auditor for Coalfire Systems. He has worked as an information security consultant for multiple Fortune 100 companies including Microsoft, JP Morgan Chase, and Salesforce. His expertise includes code reviews, black-box assessments, product reviews, and custom tools development. Waqas collaborated with Microsoft Research in the development of a static code analysis tool used for identifying software vulnerabilities and was featured in Microsoft’s Information Security Newsletter. Waqas has also been credited with the discovery and disclosure of vulnerabilities in many tech products including Google & Apple.
Cordny Nederkoorn
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Cordny Nederkoorn is a software testing and content marketing consultant with over 10 years of experience in finance, e-commerce and web development. He is the founder of TestingSaaS - Create Content through Testing - , a testing and content marketing agency for IT companies. With TestingSaaS, he has built a community to share thoughts and methods on making SaaS better and safer.
Chris Nelson
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Chris has built Security, Compliance and Privacy programs and teams across a range of industries and companies of all sizes. Chris utilizes Permaculture as a design science for implementing programs and controls, thus ensuring the right fit for every organization. He has experience with DevOps teams and at all levels of the SDLC, from portfolio and strategic consultation to rolling up his sleeves and working with Engineering at the User Story level.
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Kristian Nelson is a recent contributor currently working at InfoZen with a focus on DevOps, Cloud, Mobility, and SaaS. He is engaged in helping our government transition & embrace the change and benefits DevOps offers. Prior to this, Kristian worked as the senior product strategist and architect in creating an enterprise class DevOps service offering at the Bank of America. In his role, Kristian created and laid out a vision of new product features working with premier tooling vendors like Cisco, IBM, and BMC, from which the entire industry is still benefiting today. In addition, Kristian was also the primary product strategist at Bank of America creating a mobility service and transitioning the financial centers with new customer facing capabilities. Kristian has always been a visionary, holding senior leadership positions at companies like Quovera, Interliant, GST Internet, Gartner Group, and Lockheed Martin. Feel free to contact Kristian through any of the following …
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Mike Nelson is a Solutions Architect at Rubrik. He is a Microsoft MVP and Azure Advisor, VMware vExpert, and Citrix CTP. He is also a VMUG and Azure User Group leader. He is passionate about helping people understand and utilize technology to make their lives better, more efficient, and more enjoyable.
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Mike Nelson is the VP of IoT Security at DigiCert, a global leader in digital security. In this role, Nelson oversees the company’s strategic market development for the various critical infrastructure industries securing highly sensitive networks and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, including healthcare, transportation, industrial operations, and smart grid and smart city implementations. Nelson frequently consults with organizations, contributes to media reports, participates in industry standards bodies, and speaks at industry conferences about how technology can be used to improve cyber security for critical systems and the people who rely upon them.
Nelson has spent his career in healthcare IT including time at the US Department of Health and Human Services, GE Healthcare, and Leavitt Partners – a boutique healthcare consulting firm. Nelson’s passion for the industry stems from his personal experience as a type 1 diabetic and his use of connected technology in his treatment.
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Justin is the GM, Ansible, Red Hat. He has spent a career helping organizations transform their IT environments by adopting new and making better use of existing technologies. Over his career, he has held both technical, sales, marketing and product leadership roles at a number of organizations, including Red Hat, where he ran a large services team. He resides in Raleigh, NC with his wife and children and tweets from @justnems.
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Mr. Nerkar is a seasoned executive with 20+ years of experience working in startups and Fortune 20 companies, delivering software products from inception to general availability
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Rafael Neves, head of Enterprise Architecture at ALICE has more than 8 years of experience with technology, having worked in the financial industry both in the sell-side and the buy-side for most of his career. Prior to joining ALICE, he served as Head of Engineering of an investment advisory startup called Monetar. Before that, he was the Head of IT Quality & Process of the fast growing investment bank Brasil Plural, engaging in prominent projects such as the technological structuring of the bank’s Broker Dealer in New York. In 2010 he became the Head of Algorithmic Trading in the first electronic trading desk in Brazil at Agora CTVM, the leading brokerage house in the Brazilian Exchange which he joined in 2008. Rafael earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.
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Fredric Newberg is CTO and Co-Founder of Embrace, the solution to help engineers manage the complexity of mobile to build better, bolder experiences. Companies like Wildlife, TakeTwo, GOAT, Yahoo! Fantasy Sports, and The New York Times use Embrace to identify any user-impacting issues with detailed technical context to resolve them instantly.
Fredric has great experience in building backend systems to handle the high data volumes that mobile game analytics platforms require. He was a founding engineer at Kontagent (now Upsight), a large-scale mobile analytics platform for top game developers. He designed and built backend systems that handled 1500 applications, 250M monthly active users, and 150B events each month for customers around the globe. He then was a founding engineer at Rave, one of the top social graph toolkits for mobile game developers. Rave handled Pokemon Go’s launch in 2016.
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Heath Newburn is a Distinguished Field Engineer, and works as a field CTO on strategic evolution for PagerDuty customers. He has a long background in AIOps, monitoring, software development and operations in many organizations and is focused on enabling the personal success of individuals and teams across IT. Heath lives in Georgetown, Texas, and is passionate about cooking and finding great Texas barbecue.
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Aaron Newcomb is the Director of Product Marketing at Sysdig focusing on the Sysdig Monitor product and related Kubernetes and container monitoring features. He has worked in the technology industry for over 20 years for companies such as AppDynamics, New Relic, NetApp, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, and Hewlett Packard where he worked with APM, Storage, and Systems Monitoring products. He is a published author, non-profit founder, and speaks about cloud technology and open source software regularly at conferences and on podcasts like TWiT.tv. Aaron spends his free time tinkering with Raspberry Pi or Arduino as well as restoring and hacking old computer systems like the Commodore 64, Apple II, and TRS-80 Color Computer.
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Director, Cloud and DevSecOps Strategy, Red Hat
Kirsten Newcomer works closely with Red Hat’s many security professionals across the Red Hat portfolio of open source offerings. She is a diversified software management professional with more than 20 years of experience in security, application development, and infrastructure solutions. Prior to joining Red Hat, Kirsten provided strategic direction for Black Duck’s open source security and governance solutions.
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Andre is a technical writer for Gremlin where he writes about the benefits and applications of Chaos Engineering. Prior to joining Gremlin, he worked as a consultant for startups and SaaS providers where he wrote on DevOps, observability, SIEM, and microservices. He has been featured in DZone, StatusCode Weekly, and The New Stack.
Chau Nguyen
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Thong Nguyen joined LogiGear in 2009 as a software developer, and currently leads LogiGear’s researching as senior technology manager. He is responsible for setting up the innovation of TestArchitect, a leading tool in test automation. Thong also teaches testing domain at the University of Sciences and is actively involved in LogiGear's internal technical seminars.
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Tin Nguyen is senior engineering manager at KMS Technology. He has more than 12 years of experience managing software development projects with a focus on migrating legacy applications to modern platforms.
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Cassa is a content writer at JumpCloud with a degree in Magazine Writing from the University of Missouri. When she’s not at work, she likes to hike, ski and read.
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Vishwa Nigam is Manager - Strategic Insights at Prodapt, a global leader in providing software, engineering, and operational services to the communications industry. Vishwa is passionate in providing thought-leadership assets to CSPs for driving Digital and automation initiatives through use of DevOps, CI/CD, AI/ML and Robotics.
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Nitzan Niv is system architect and security researcher lead at Alcide. Nitzan is a designer and implementer of complex software systems. Experienced system architect and development team leader. Interested in server technologies, distributed systems and technological challenges.
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Gil Nizri, CEO of DBmaestro, is a high-tech entrepreneur with 25 years of experience driving business success. A results-oriented leader, he champions automation as a strategic approach to achieving business agility and a strong competitive edge.
Gil believes that business value is paramount, and any technological solution should prioritize how to improve the business. DBmaestro exemplifies this philosophy by automating Database DevOps processes and significantly accelerating business agility.
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Jasmine Noel, Senior Product Marketing Manager, ReversingLabs
Jasmine Noel is Senior Product Marketing Manager at ReversingLabs. Her career began as an industry analyst covering IT technologies. She then founded Ptak, Noel & Associates to provide research and marketing services to Fortune 500 and startup technology firms. Prior to ReversingLabs, Noel also held product marketing roles in growth companies, including Veracode, Corvil, and NS1.
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Cara Nolte is a Training Architect at A Cloud Guru, A Pluralsight Company. She is a distinguished engineer with nearly 15 years experience with leading tech companies including Red Hat, GE Digital, IBM and more. As a Guru, she talks all things Linux and is passionate about Hands-on Labs and “learning by doing.” Prior to ACG, she worked as a Unix systems engineer at companies like GE, IBM and MedPlus.
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Kash Noorani is senior director of product management at OpsRamp. He has served in multiple product and engineering leadership positions, with domain experience in enterprise software and financial services, over the past 20+ years.
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Heikki Nousiainen is the CTO and co-founder of Aiven, a next-generation managed cloud services company offering the best open source database and messaging services to businesses around the world.
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Mark Nunnikhoven is the Vice President of Cloud Research at Trend Micro. He is one of the foremost experts on cloud technologies and cybersecurity issues. With a focus on modernizing security practices and usable security systems at scale, Mark works with clients and partners around the world. Often quoted in the media both at home in Canada and internationally, Mark is an engaging public speaker, an O'Reilly video author, an accomplished computer scientist, and security leader.
You can reach Mark online at http://markn.ca and @marknca.
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Sreekanth Nyamars is a lead consultant with the enterprise business integration practice at Wipro. He has almost 19 years of experience in platform integration with tools such as TIBCO, IBM and open source middleware technologies. Nyamars currently focuses on open source container and PaaS technologies. He is a passionate Kubernetes professional and also a CNCF certified Kubernetes administrator.
