Speakers

Kohsuke Kawaguchi

Creator of Jenkins, Co-CEO at Launchable Inc

Kohsuke Kawaguchi is a well-respected developer and now a co-founder of a start-up called Launchable but he is best known as the creator of the Jenkins software project. Kohsuke is a popular speaker at industry and Jenkins community events and has been given several industry awards. https://kohsuke.org/

Sam Guckenheimer

PRODUCT OWNER, AZURE DEVOPS - MICROSOFT

Sam is the Product Owner for Azure DevOps at Microsoft, where he is responsible for strategy of the next releases of products focusing on DevOps, Agile and CI/CD Pipelines. Sam curates the website, DevOps at Microsoft, and has authored four books, the most recent being Journey to Cloud Cadence.

Andreas Prins

VP of Product Strategy for XebiaLabs

Andreas brings real-world experience building and scaling teams to deliver mission-critical software applications. He has extensive experience as an Agile Transformation coach and as a former manager of DevOps team. At XebiaLabs he is responsible for product strategy to build Enterprise DevOps solutions that enable the digital transformation of the customers.

Marko Klemetti

CTO, EFICODE

Marko is the CTO of Eficode, a European DevOps company, and the founder and advisor in many tech startups. Marko is a passionate programmer who knows that design systems and continuous deployment are the enablers of a modern development organization.

Jeff Williams

Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Contrast Security

Jeff brings more than 20 years of security leadership experience as Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Contrast. Jeff is also a founder and major contributor to OWASP, where he served as Global Chairman for eight years and created the OWASP Top 10, OWASP Enterprise Security API, OWASP Application Security Verification Standard, XSS Prevention Cheat Sheet, and many other widely adopted free and open projects.

Abdelfettah Sghiouar

Strategic Cloud Engineer, Google

Google Cloud Engineer with a focus on Serverless, IoT, ML and DevOps Methodologies. A big fan and supporter of OSS software and evangelizing for Kubernetes.

Adrian Hornsby

Principal evangelist at Amazon Web Services

Adrian is a principal evangelist at Amazon Web Services and is based in the Nordics. He has almost 20 years of experience in the IT industry, having worked as a software and systems engineer; a backend, web, and mobile developer; and part of DevOps teams where his focus has been on cloud infrastructure and site reliability, writing application software, deploying servers, and managing large-scale architectures.

Dan Garfield

Chief Technology Evangelist, Codefresh

Dan Garfield is a full-stack engineer, Google Developer Expert, and member of the Forbes Technology Council. As a Kubernaut and CI/CD expert, Dan has built tools for advanced deployment methodologies with Kubernetes, Helm, and Istio. His code and talks have been featured at conferences including Kubecon, Dev Week, Google Cloud Summit, SwampUp, Redis Conf and many more.

Rasmus Selsmark

Lead Developer, Unity Technologies

Rasmus is the lead for DevOps team in Unity Ads, with the mission of facilitating DevOps culture in the engineering organization by building tools and frameworks, e.g. a shared build and deployment pipeline, enabling dev teams to reliably deploy and own their own infrastructure and services in production.

Ali Majid

Head of Business IT, Posti

Ali Majid is the Head of Business IT in Posti. He is leading the area for software development, architecture, business platforms operations, customer solution implementation, service delivery and support.
Ali will present Posti Messaging’s 3 year journey from Application Management and rigid ITIL based processes to Agile DevOps.

Andy Davies

Senior Software Developer, Reaktor

Andy is a Senior Software Developer at Reaktor, working as a DevOps Engineer for an international client, where he helps manage all the infrastructure running their web, mobile and app presences.

Rick van den Bosch

Principal Cloud Architect, Betabit

Rick is a coder, although the official term is something like Principal Cloud Architect. He has been working with Microsoft Azure since it was first introduced. Next to developing cloud stuff hands-on, he has created cloud migration advises and migration strategies for customers.
He also designs system architectures, coach developers and optimize the software development process to realize important and complex systems together with the customer.

Ricardo Castro

Senior Cloud Engineer, Veniam

Ricardo is a Senior Cloud Engineer at Veniam building highly performance, reliable and scalable systems. DevOps Porto meetup co-organizer and DevOpsDays Portugal co-organizer. Strong believer in culture and teamwork. Open source passionate, taekwondo amateur and metal lover.

Guy Herbert

Risk Futurist, Atlassian

Guy wants to change the way we think about risk and compliance in the business. He sees we need to find better ways to enable all the teams to manage risk and compliance as part of their everyday. Culture and the tools to support you are two key parts of the conversation.
Guy works for Atlassian in Australia as a Risk Futurist.

Magda Stenius

Software developer, Valohai

Magda is a full stack developer at Valohai and one of the organizers of the Turku.py Python meetup. She is passionate about open source, open data and MLOps. She will be presenting about the special role of DevOps in data science and machine learning and how we can help improve the workflow of data scientists.

Marco Lormans

IT Architect, Xebia

Marco Lormans is an IT consultant, trainer and coach at Xebia IT Architects. He is active in IT from 2001 and has extensive experience in the area of IT architecture, continuous delivery, DevOps and organisation design. He is specialised in building mature data platforms, development of data applications and embedding these changes in the enterprise from both a technological and organisational perspective.

Baruch Sadogursky

Head of Developer Advocates, JFrog

Baruch Sadogursky (JBaruch) is the head of developer advocates at JFrog. His passion is speaking about technology. Well, speaking in general, but doing it about technology makes him look smart, and 17 years of high-tech experience sure helps. When he’s not on stage (or on a plane to get there), he learns about technology, people, and how they work or—more precisely—don’t work together. He’s a CNCF ambassador, Developer Champion, and a professional conference speaker on DevOps, Java, and Groovy topics. He’s also a regular at the industry’s most prestigious events, such as JavaOne (where he was awarded a Rock Star award), DockerCon, Devoxx, devopsdays, OSCON, and Qcon. You can follow him on Twitter at @jbaruch.

Viktor Farcic

Principal Software Delivery Strategist and Developer Advocate, CloudBees

Viktor Farcic is a Principal Software Delivery Strategist and Developer Advocate at CloudBees, a member of the Google Developer Experts and Docker Captains groups, and published author.
His big passions are DevOps, Containers, Kubernetes, Microservices, Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment (CI/CD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD).

Jakob Knutsson

Lead Cloud Architect, H&M

With a focus on modern management and cloud, Jakob has been following the big shift in the IT landscape where the demands and speed of business are outpacing IT operations. Jakob Knutsson has an extensive background in Microsoft technology and is a leading expert on Azure Cloud. He has over 19 years of experience in implementation and transformation projects as a consultant and now works at H&M as a Lead Cloud Architect and is responsible for Cloud Adoption.

Jakob is also a popular speaker in events like Microsoft Ignite, Techdays Sweden and Cloud Management Insights.

Erwin Staal

DevOps Engineer, Neocles

Erwin Staal is a .NET Software Engineer and DevOps Consultant at 4DotNet (Meppel, the Netherlands). He has over more than 10 years of experience with both small and large organizations. He likes to immerse himself in the latest technologies. Currently, he is working a lot with ASP.NET Core, Docker and Kubernetes. As a DevOps Consultant, he helps companies with the implementation of DevOps and Continuous Delivery and coaches’ teams to become better at Scrum and Agile.

Eveline Oehrlich

Chief Research Analyst, DevOps Institute

Eveline Oehrlich is an independent Research Director at the DevOps Institute. She held the position of VP and Research Director at Forrester Research, where she led and conducted research around a variety of topics including DevOps, Digital Operational Excellence, IT and Enterprise Service Management, Cognitive Intelligence and Application Performance Management for 13 years. She has advised leaders and teams of small and large enterprises across the world on challenges and possible changes to people, process and technology. She is the author of many research papers and thought leadership pieces and a well-known presenter and speaker within the IT industry. Eveline has more than 25 years of experience in IT.

Her passion is to help companies transform their IT organization, processes, and tools towards high performing teams enabling their business partners to achieve great business results. She has helped some of the largest enterprises across the world to adopt new strategies, workflows and automation tools within their journey towards a digital business.