Shahir A. Daya
Shahir A. Daya is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO in the IBM Cloud Transformation Team. He is an IBM Senior Certified Architect and an Open Group Distinguished Chief/Lead IT Architect. Shahir has over twenty-three years at IBM with the last seventeen focused on application architecture assignments. He has experience with complex high volume transactional applications and systems integration. Shahir has led teams of practitioners to help IBM and its clients with application architecture for several years. His industry experience includes travel & transportation, banking, financial services, retail, public sector, and telecommunications. Shahir is currently focused on Cloud-Native and Microservices [...]
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Phillip Higgins
Phillip serves as the Director of Marketing and Digital Strategy for Richland Library - one of the most progressive, award-winning public libraries in the country. There, he leads a team of developers, marketers and creatives on a mission to deliver and implement innovative strategies that enhance the customer experience while continuously growing the library’s brand. A self-described Agile evangelist, Phillip leads the web development efforts for Richland Library’s website as well as other digital assets, including their new open source event management system known as Intercept. Phillip regularly speaks at events around the country, talking about the work that Richland [...]
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Rod Cope
Rod Cope is the CTO of Rogue Wave Software, which he joined through the acquisition of OpenLogic. He was the CTO and Founder of OpenLogic where he helped enterprises adopt and manage open source software. Previously in his 25+ year software career, he worked at IBM, IBM Global Services, General Electric, and Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield. For over 20 years, he has spoken internationally on technical and business topics in dozens of conferences, including OSCON, JavaOne, Strata/Big Data conference, LinuxCon, and the No Fluff Just Stuff tour. Rod holds both a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Software Engineering from [...]
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Wes Widner
Wes Widner is a veteran in the threat intelligence industry. His work history includes data engineering and threat modeling with McAfee Labs’s Global Threat Intelligence, building out a large scale malware pipeline with Norse Corporation, and engineering clouds at Crowdstrike. He specializes in building large scale distributed threat intelligence systems that span a range of threat vectors. Wes also enjoys teaching children how to hack, ethically of course.
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John Saboe
John is an Open Source Enterprise Architect on the OpenLogic team at Rogue Wave Software. John has over a decade of experience working in technology, including software development, application security, embedded and real time software, networks and protocols, software architecture, training, R&D, and technical leadership. His most recent focus has been on enterprise Java applications, open source messaging frameworks, and security.
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Peter Zaitsev
Peter co-founded Percona in 2006, assuming the role of CEO. Percona helps companies of all sizes maximize their success with MySQL. Percona was named to the Inc. 5000 in 2013. Peter was an early employee at MySQL AB, eventually leading the company’s High Performance Group. A serial entrepreneur, Peter co-founded his first startup while attending Moscow State University where he majored in Computer Science. As CEO of Percona, Peter enjoys mixing business leadership with hands on technical expertise. Peter is the co-author of High Performance MySQL published by O’Reilly, one of the most popular books on MySQL performance. Peter blogs [...]
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Brian Childress
My name is Brian Childress and I am a Master Software Engineer at Capital One. Over the past 10 plus years I have developed applications in healthcare, finance, and consumer products. I am mostly self taught and am passionate about learning new concepts, patterns, and technologies. When not programming I enjoy spending family time exploring the great outdoors.
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Brian Platz
Brian is Co-founder and Co-CEO of Fluree, a distributed ledger and graph database solution geared towards enterprise deployments of blockchain. Brian was an entrepreneur and executive throughout the early internet days and SaaS boom, having founded the popular A-list apart web development community, along with a host of successful SaaS companies. He is now helping companies navigate the complexity of the blockchain enterprise movement, having been invited to speak on the topic at 16 global conferences in 2018 alone. Previous to establishing Fluree, Brian co-founded SilkRoad Technology which grew to over 2,000 customers and 500 employees in 12 global offices.
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Ray Gesualdo
Ray Gesualdo is a full-stack JavaScript developer, speaker and mentor from Atlanta, GA. He started his career in the e-learning development industry before moving into software engineering with multiple Atlanta-based startups. Currently, he works with an amazing team of UI engineers at SalesLoft. Ray loves working with client- and server-side JavaScript; experimenting with serverless architectures, functional programming and Elixir; and teaching and equipping others in technology.
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Bryan Hughes
Bryan Hughes is a Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft, long-time member of the Node.js and NodeBots communities, and tech activist. Bryan is the creator of Raspi IO which provides Raspberry Pi support for the Johnny-Five JavaScript robotics library. Bryan also created Raver Lights, a distributed wireless lighting system designed for festivals, Request Inspector, a Node.js performance diagnostics tool, and Contact Scheduler, an app that helps him keep in touch with friends. Outside of tech, Bryan is an active member of the LGTBQ community, a photographer, an occasional writer, a once upon a time pianist, and a wine aficionado.
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