Contributors


Description Joey D'Antoni is an Senior Consultant for Denny Cherry and Associates and SQL Server MVP with over a decade of experience working in both Fortune 500 and smaller firms. He is an IDERA SQL Superstar and has hosted numerous Geek Sync, #SQLChat, and IDERA Live sessions for the database tools company.
Larisa Andreea Danaila
Description Larisa works as a Software Development Engineer with the Adobe Experience Platform team. She’s been developing back-end services for 4 years while being interested in developer productivity and making it safe for developers to fail. Apart from work, she enjoys reading, theater and taking up some physical challenges once in a while.
 
Description Brice is a cross-functional, pragmatic team leader with a strong background in development, databases, DevOps, and internal IT. He applies his in-depth experience overseeing and participating in agile delivery of software systems to help Oteemo's clients transform DevSecOps to accelerate innovation and move from legacy to cloud native applications. Prior to Oteemo, Brice lead software engineering and infrastructure at Plexus Scientific for more than 11 years. Read more of Brice's articles at www.oteemo.com.
Description Apurva is the Chief Marketing Officer at Sysdig. He’s been helping people analyze and accelerate infrastructure for the better part of two decades. He previously worked at Riverbed on both WAN acceleration and Network Analysis products, and at Inktomi on infrastructure products. He has a computer science degree from Brown University and an MBA from UC Berkeley.
Description Elvis David is a highly experienced data scientist with over four years of expertise in planning and delivering large projects, solving complex problems using data and producing technical results in hybrid cloud software development environment. His skills include creating dataset processes, maintaining scalable data pipelines, building API integrations , scripting, task automation and CI/CD using technologies like Python, SQL, Bash, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes and Airflow. With a Master’s in computer science from University of East London, he brings a strong foundation and a passion for innovation to every project.
 
Description Dror Davidoff is co-founder and CEO of Aqua Security. Dror has more than 20 years of experience in sales management, marketing, and business development in the enterprise software space. He has held executive positions at several emerging IT security and analytics companies. Before co-founding Aqua in 2015, he headed up global sales of Database Security Products at McAfee (Intel Security), and prior to that was EVP of Sales and Business Development at Sentrigo where he led its fast market share increase. Dror holds an MBA in Finance from City University of New York and a BA in Economics. He likes to start his day with an early morning swim in the Mediterranean.
Description Nahla Davies is a technical copywriter and former software specialist and lead programmer at several major technology companies whose clients include Collibra, UpGuard and Netflix. Since 2015 Davies has worked with enterprise clients around the world developing RegTech protocols and best practices. She worked both enterprise side and with sovereign governments acting as a key contributor for notable public projects like DCOM. Since 2020 Davies has taken a less active role in compliance consulting and started sharing my insights as a technical copywriter. Visit https://nahlawrites.com to learn more.
Description Roman Davydov is a Technology Observer at Itransition. With over four years of experience in the IT industry, Roman follows and analyzes digital transformation trends to guide businesses in making informed software buying choices.
Description Jessica Day is the Senior Director for Marketing Strategy at Dialpad, a modern business communications platform that takes every kind of conversation to the next level—turning conversations into opportunities. Jessica is an expert in collaborating with multifunctional teams to execute and optimize marketing efforts, for both company and client campaigns. Jessica has also written for other domains such as Neal Schaffer and Codeless. Here is her LinkedIn.
  
Description Cody is a seasoned technologist who focuses on all things "as-code" and AppDev. His background is in enterprise IT systems, infrastructure as code, and application delivery. He enjoys taking users on journeys in technology and is passionate about teaching people how to adopt DevOps practices. He's very active in the IT community; and loves interacting with users on Twitter at @codydearkland.
Description Loris Degioanni is the CTO and founder of Sysdig, the cloud-native intelligence platform. He is also the creator of the popular open source troubleshooting tool, sysdig, and the open source container security tool Sysdig Falco. Prior to founding Sysdig, Loris co-created Wireshark, the open source network analyzer, which today has 20+ million users. Loris holds a PhD in computer engineering from Politecnico di Torino and lives in Davis, California.
Description Michael Dehoyos is a content marketer and editor at Phd Kingdom and Academic brits. He assists companies in their marketing strategy concepts, and contributes to numerous sites and publications. Also, he is a writer at Origin Writings.
  
Description A technologist who started out working on aircraft and missile guidance systems, Don Dingee now runs STRATISET, a strategy consultancy helping businesses navigate digital transformation. For a decade he covered embedded and edge computing, EDA, and IoT technology at Embedded Computing Design and SemiWiki.com. He’s co-author of “Mobile Unleashed”, a history of Arm chips in mobile devices. For fun, he debates sabermetrics and wrestles his Great Pyrenees dog.
Description Bojana Dobran is a technology researcher and writer with almost a decade of experience in cloud computing and data center industries. As a Product Marketing Manager at phoenixNAP, Bojana explores industry trends, customer demands and use cases for different infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) solutions.
Description Jamie Dobson is co-founder and CEO of Container Solutions, a professional services consultancy specializing in cloud migration.
  
Description Bill Doerrfeld is a tech journalist and analyst. His beat is cloud technologies, specifically the web API economy. He began researching APIs as an Associate Editor at ProgrammableWeb, and since 2015 has been the Editor at Nordic APIs, a high-impact blog on API strategy for providers. He loves discovering new trends, interviewing key contributors, and researching new technology. He also gets out into the world to speak occasionally.
  
Description 
Tal brings over a decade of technical experience in enterprise architecture specializing in mission critical applications with focus on real-time analytics, distributed systems, identity management, fusion middleware and innovation. Bridging the gap between business and technology, architecting and strategizing digital transformation from ideas to success with strong business impact. Managing pre-sales activities engaging with all levels of decision makers from architects to strategic dialogue with C-level executives. Prior to joining GigaSpaces, Tal served in various positions at software technology companies including Dooblo, Enix, Experis BI and Oracle.
Description Brian Douglas is the Director of the Public Sector at Kubecost. He joined Kubecost in 2022 from Red Hat, where he served as the Solutions Director for Emerging Technologies. Previously, Douglas has led public sector growth across several fast-growing technology companies, including Parallel 6, Optio Labs, MaaS360 by Fiberlink, and Mocana Corporation. An engineer by education, Douglas has also held engineering roles at Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, among other businesses with heavy involvement in the public sector.
Description Michael Dresser is a Full Stack Engineer at Kubecost. Prior to Kubecost, Michael worked at Google contributing to the Kubernetes project, focusing on tooling for Kubernetes developers.
Description Eric Drobisewski is Sr. Architect, Liberty Mutual Insurance, Technology Hosting Services. Eric has more than 20 years of enterprise IT experience spanning many technology verticals, including Telecom, Network, Mainframe, Midrange, Middleware, DB, and Cloud services. As a Senior Architect, he’s responsible for more than 40,000 systems across the globe in a highly virtualized environment with a goal of modernizing a significant portion of those workloads for public cloud platforms. Over the past several years, Eric’s focus has been on Liberty Mutual’s enterprise cloud strategy, strategic enablement, DevSecOps and Infrastructure as Code practices, and driving containerization as the company’s core compute fabric. Eric is keynote speaker, most recently having taken the stage at DockerCon 2018 in San Francisco, addressing an audience of 11,000, and his thought-leadership about Liberty Mutual’s digital transformation, DevSecOps journey, and containerization enablement and adoption has appeared in numerous business and technical publications.
Yuval Dror
Description Yuval Dror is Director of Engineering and Head of DevOps at Anodot, who specializes in creating and managing AIOps systems.
Description Kirby Drumm is the Field Engineering Lead at Kubecost, an open source solution for understanding and optimizing Kubernetes spend. He has more than 30 years of software engineering experience, including extensive work in system integration across a variety of products and industries.
 
Description Gary Duan is CTO at NeuVector, a Kubernetes security company that uses behavioral learning and firewall technology to secure containers during run-time. Gary has more than 15 years of experience in networking, security, cloud and data center software. He also holds several patents in security and data center technology.
Description Steve Durbin is CEO of the Information Security Forum, an independent, not-for-profit dedicated to investigating, clarifying and resolving key issues in information security and risk management by developing best practice methodologies, processes and solutions that meet the business needs of its members. ISF membership comprises the Fortune 500 and Forbes 2000.