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Lakshmiprasad is a seasoned IT consultant at Prodapt, a global leader in providing IT, product, network and operational services for the digital service providers (DSPs). He has over 15 years of experience in leading strategic architecture transformation, product design, UX design and enterprise wide DevOps and CI/CD initiatives.
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Jans Aasman is a Ph.D. psychologist, expert in Cognitive Science and CEO of Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence, creator of Allegro CL a Common Lisp platform, and leading provider of Semantic Database technology and Knowledge Graph solutions. As both a scientist and CEO, Dr. Aasman continues to break ground in the areas of Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Graphs as he works hand-in-hand with numerous Fortune 500 organizations as well as U.S. and foreign governments.
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Puja Abbassi is the Vice President of Product at Giant Swarm, building a managed cloud native developer platform based on Kubernetes. As a CNCF ambassador, he's passionate about bringing cloud native technologies to more developers and their organisations around the globe. In Kubernetes he focuses on extending Kubernetes with custom resources and controllers. With many years of Kubernetes experience and having been in the beta batch of CKAs, he enjoys solving problems and helping people in the community, mainly within SIG Contributor Experience. He used to also a contributor to the CIS Kubernetes Benchmarks.
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Philippe Abdoulaye is the founder of ITaaS Now LLC, a digital transformation research and advisory business in Raleigh, NC.
He is a thought leader and a seasoned digital transformation expert with expertise in DevOps and IT as a Service (ITaaS).
He is the author of the best selling "Cloud computing: Advanced Business and IT Strategy" and "The Complete ITaaS Delivery: The Art of Integrating AWS, DevOps and ITIL into ITaaS Delivery Models."
Philippe is the originator of "The Complete ITaaS Delivery Model™," a digital transformation framework guiding all aspects of IT organization transitions to cloud, DevOps, and ITaaS.
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Asanka Abeysinghe is chief technology evangelist at WSO2.
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Venkata Achanti is Vice President, Portfolio Leader at Capgemini Americas. He is an inspiring senior IT executive with experience building collaborative teams, developing cloud and digital business solutions, delivering enterprise-wide business and IT capabilities, and adding value through technology transformations. He has developed proven leadership in technology delivery, IT strategy, data analytics, solution architecture, governance, business development, and building CXO relationships. Venkata is based in Atlanta.
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Melanie Achard is the director of product marketing at SolarWinds. Achard’s career in technology started out as favor to a friend when she wrote her first software program on a Morrow Micro System. Her curiosity piqued, she accepted a software development position at a startup and was instantly hooked. Since then, she has worked in software engineering, product management and product marketing at a variety of companies—from small, three-person startups to large Fortune 500 organizations—all with a focus on solving problems that people care about. With 30 years of experience across multiple technology disciplines—from systems administration, IT security and regulatory compliance to external device management and mobile applications—she continues to advance her knowledge and understanding of the continually evolving technology landscape. In 2018, Melanie joined SolarWinds to focus on the growth of the company’s DevOps products—Pingdom, AppOptics, Papertrail and Loggly.
Jas Adams
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Jas Adams is the Director of DevOps at Lemongrass.
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John Adams is chief executive officer of Waratek. As CEO, John has complete responsibility for developing markets and operating all aspects of the organization’s global business. John has a rich history in security and medical technology with his experience spanning more than two decades. Prior to Waratek, John served as president and COO of SecurAmerica, leading the company’s expansion into nearly three-dozen new geographic markets and growing the company from five employees to over 5,000. In his career, John has also served as SVP N. America for London-based G4S (formerly Securicor) and held senior executive positions at US Surgical Corporation and Medline Industries. John holds an MBA in Healthcare Administration from Webster University and a BS in Business Administration/Accounting from Florida Southern College.
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Moazzam Adnan Raja is the Vice President of Marketing at Atlantic.Net. During Raja’s tenure, the Orlando-based, privately held hosting company has grown from having a primarily regional presence to garnering and developing attention nationwide and internationally. In collaboration with a skilled and dedicated team, Raja has successfully led a full spectrum of marketing campaigns, as well as handling PR work with major news outlets and the formation of key strategic alliances.
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Nikolay Advolodkin is a senior solutions architect at Sauce Labs and CEO and test automation instructor at UltimateQA.com, a training site covering the gamut of testing topics and technologies.
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Anant Adya is senior VP and head of sales and engagements for Cloud, Infrastructure and Security Services (CIS) for Americas and APAC. He and his team are responsible for designing solutions to help customers in their digital and cloud journey. They use a combination of AI-led solution sets combined with capabilities from partner and startup ecosystem to design best solutions for customers. Cloud and Infrastructure Service line include infrastructure operations, security, data center and network transformation, cloud (public, private and hybrid), workload migration and service experience.