Contributors


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Description Dave Page has been actively involved in the PostgreSQL Project since 1998, as the lead developer of pgAdmin, maintainer of the PostgreSQL installers and occasional feature hacker. He also serves on the project's web and sysadmin teams and is a member of the PostgreSQL Core Team. He joined EnterpriseDB in 2007 and has been influential in the company’s direction and development of critical database management tools.
Description Shreesha Pai Manoor, Head of Customer Solutions, HYCU Inc. Shreesha is an engineering leader with a proven track record of product quality, customer satisfaction, and building distributed systems for cloud and enterprise. He leads HYCU’s customer success organization. Prior to HYCU, he led senior engineering and customer support positions at Dell EMC, Cisco and Wipro. He has a Master of Technology, MTech, Computer Engineering degree from Mysore University and an MBA from UMass Lowell.
Description Muralidharan Palanisamy is Chief Solutions Officer at AppViewX. Before joining the company, he served as Senior Vice President at Bank of America, where he led an architecture and engineering team of e-commerce application delivery. Prior to that, Murali was Vice President of architecture and product engineering at Merrill Lynch. He has designed and developed automation and integration solutions for servers, application delivery controllers, IP services, and networking. Murali is an Electronics and Communication Engineer from Bharathiyar University in India. He is based out of New York.
Description Chandan Pandey, DataOps Lead Engineer at Sigmoid Chandan has vast experience on cloud platforms like, open source tools like Linux, k8s, Hudi, Spark, Airflow, Trino, Docker, Jenkins, Kafka, Yarn, Flink, Hadoop, Databases like BigQuery, Mysql, Mongo, Percona & InfluxDB, and well versed in programming on Scala, Python, Shell scripting. Chandan has 7+ years of extensive experience in providing end-to-end solutions for scalable, highly available, and secure cloud environments using platforms like AWS, GCP & Azure. He specializes in leveraging the most cutting-edge tools and technologies to build secure and robust architectures, and in deploying and managing containerized applications. He has worked on projects entailing Big Data, Cloud Migration, Application development, Microservices, and Cloud cost optimization across various domains such as AdTech, Finance, Retail, CPG, Cloud security, Ecommerce.
Description Vivek Pandey is the Vice President of Engineering at Shipa.io, a cloud-native application-as-code platform. Prior to Shipa, Vivek was a co-founder at CloudBees and has held engineering roles at Sun Microsystems and VMware.
Description Dhanwandhi Panneerselvam is an Executive Research Analyst at Aspire Systems, a global technology service firm. She holds a Masters degree in Engineering and has commendable research skills. Intrigued by technology and its influence on life, she turned a vivid learner and an ardent writer. She develops quality content with strategic focus on tech-domains and deep analytical skills.
Description Dr. Rao Papolu is President and Chief Executive Officer of Cavirin Systems, Inc., a provider of continuous security assessment and remediation for hybrid clouds, containers and data centers. Rao is on the Board of Directors of SRA, Inc., a publicly-traded company, and an Advisory Board Member to Solix Technologies. He received his Doctorate degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras. He has published 25 technical papers in various international journals and was a visiting scientist at the University of Michigan and the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan.
Shreyans Parekh
 
Description Shreyans Parekh is a Senior Manager at AppDynamics, where he manages go-to-market strategy across product releases and is focused on innovation in the areas of End User Monitoring (EUM), Cloud Migration and IoT. His writing has appeared in publications by Intuit, IBM Bluewolf, New Relic, Conga and the University of Michigan Ross School of Business.
Description Austin Parker has been solving - and creating - problems with computers and technology for most of his life. He is the Principal Developer Advocate at Lightstep and maintainer on the OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry projects. His professional dream is to build a world where we're able to create and run more reliable software. In addition to his professional work, he's taught college classes, spoken about all things DevOps and Distributed Tracing, and even found time to start a podcast. Austin is also the co-author of the forthcoming book Distributed Tracing in Practice, available in early 2020 from O'Reilly Media.
Description Devin is editor-in-chief of ReHack Magazine at ReHack.com. Devin is especially interested in projects related to technology, startups, women in tech, the IoT and data security.
Description Ajay Patel is the General Manager for VMware’s Modern Applications & Management Business, with the mission to be the leader in application modernization, cloud-native application development and multi-cloud management through VMware Tanzu and vRealize portfolio. He has over 30 years of enterprise software expertise and holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine. Ajay previously served as the Treasurer and board member for Cloud Foundry Foundation. He is also a board member and technical adviser to several private and venture-funded software companies.
  
Description Bhumik Patel has 20+ years of expertise in driving technical partnerships across the virtualization and cloud software ecosystem. This includes formalizing joint GTM strategies, solutions development and enablement in a cross-functional manner delivering successful business results. Bhumik Patel serves as Director, software ecosystem development at Arm. In that role, Bhumik is responsible for driving the software GTM strategy and execution for the Arm Infrastructure group’s vision of powering next-generation cloud to edge infrastructure. He leads a team that incubates, builds, and grows partnerships across the cloud to edge software ecosystem. Prior to joining Arm, Bhumik was Director, Strategic Alliances at VMware responsible for leading business initiatives with strategic partners across the VMware product portfolio. He has presented at many leading industry conferences and partner events and has a MS in Computer Science degree from Cal State Long Beach.
Description Ritesh Patel is a co-founder and VP of Product at Nirmata, a cloud-native application management platform built on Kubernetes. Ritesh has 15 years of experience in enterprise software development and team leadership. Prior to Nirmata, Ritesh was responsible for private cloud strategy and business development at Brocade where he led various OpenStack-related initiatives and created a partner ecosystem. Ritesh has also held key technical positions at Trapeze Networks, Nortel, and Motorola. Ritesh holds an MBA from UC Berkeley and an MS from Michigan State University.
Description Joe is VP of Product Strategy for Fairwinds, where he is responsible for leading teams that build solutions to bridge the gap between developers, security, and operations. His product experience ranges from lean startup incubations to managing high-growth products through to maturity. Prior to Fairwinds, Joe was a Director of Product Management at Veracode, which was acquired by Thoma Bravo in 2018 for $950m.
 
Description Anand Babu Periasamy is Co-founder and CEO at MinIO, a pioneer in high-performance, Kubernetes-native object storage.
Description Tom has spent the last 25 years as a senior architect, developer, and team lead in the computer software industry in Silicon Valley. Prior to co-founding BlueData, Tom spent 10 years at VMware as a senior architect and team lead in the core R&D Storage and Availability group. Most recently, Tom led one of the key projects – vFlash, focusing on integration of server-based Flash into the vSphere core hypervisor. Prior to VMware, Tom was part of the early team at Silicon Graphics that developed XFS, one of the most successful open source file systems. Earlier in his career, he was a key member of the Stratus team that ported the Unix operating system to their highly available computing platform. Tom received his Computer Science degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
Description Marc Pinotti, Co-founder and CEO of UnifyCloud, is a senior technology executive and cloud expert with expertise in application and data modernization, migration, security, compliance, and cost control in the cloud. With numerous successful startups and acquisitions, Marc has a proven track record of building strong teams, creatively solving problems, growing businesses, and consistently exceeding P&L objectives. His experience spans the globe, having managed operations in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia.​
 
Description Cyril Plisko is the CTO and Co-Founder at Replix, a multicloud data service for Kubernetes. An experienced UNIX expert with vast system administration and kernel development background, he has rich experience in enterprise storage and network solution design as well as performance analysis and tuning for both small and large system configurations. Cyril is a long-time member of Solaris Community and a technical leader of Polaris Project - OpenSolaris PowerPC port, as well as Bluetooth stack and Device Mapper projects.
Description Art Poghosyan is CEO and Co-founder of Britive. Art is an entrepreneur with 20+ years InfoSec experience. Prior to Britive, he co-founded leading Identity and Access Management (IAM) consulting company Advancive, acquired by Optiv in 2016. There, he shared the confidence of enterprise execs as they wrangled with protecting growing cloud landscapes.
Description Brian Pontarelli is a successful technology entrepreneur currently focused on solving login, registration, and user management challenges. Brian works with startup to Fortune 500 organizations struggling to address the complexity of secure CIAM as their businesses requirements evolve and user base scales from a handful of users to millions. He has an extensive knowledge of coding strategies as well as a hands-on understanding of the business needs of growing companies. Before Brian bootstrapped both FusionAuth and its sister company CleanSpeak, he studied computer engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder. After graduating, he solved complex technology challenges for companies like Orbitz, BEA, US Freightways, XOR and Texturemedia.
Description Sean Porter is the creator of the Sensu project and the co-founder and CTO of Sensu Inc., a leader in open source monitoring. Sean is a seasoned systems operator and software developer with over a decade of experience in automating infrastructure. As CTO of Sensu Inc, he oversees the development of Sensu, and works with users to better understand how Sensu can help them solve complex monitoring problems.
Description Beatrix Potter works as a tech blogger at Write My Dissertation and Business Essay writing services. Beatrix writes about news, events and technological advancements in the world of mobile app and web development. She is also an online proofreader at Pay For Essay website.
Description Kosmas is a full-stack engineer with experience in both start-up and enterprise environments. He has a strong focus on user experience and a particular interest in cloud technologies and social entrepreneurship.
 
Description Dimitris is a Software Engineer at Arrikto, working to facilitate the Data Scientist's transition into the MLOps world. He holds an MSc in Network-Oriented Systems and Services from the University of Piraeus, Greece. Previous experience includes work on context-aware recommendation systems for implicit feedback datasets, automatic error detection for tabular data sets and incremental learning.
Description Manish Prasad is vice president - M&A integration at Infostretch, a Silicon Valley digital engineering professional services company. www.Infostretch.com
Description Matt Price has been writing commercial and editorial content for clients in the tech, finance and automotive sectors for close to 20 years. He is a frequent contributor to the Weaveworks blog, covering subjects including digital transformation and business strategy.
Description Iwan has fifteen years’ experience in application delivery, networking, and telecoms and takes a keen interest in web development, writing, and coffee (but not necessarily in that order).
 
Description Andreas and his team strive to continuously improve StackState’s software, ensuring a rock-solid observability platform to support our customers’ observability needs. Andreas brings a strong mix of knowledge and experience in engineering management, product and strategy management, transformational leadership and Agile. Previously, Andreas held executive roles in engineering and product management for companies such as Mendix, digital.ai and XebiaLabs. He has a bachelor’s degree in kinematics and product design and uses his training as a lean black belt to drive organizational improvement.
Description Sergey Pronin is a product leader at Percona focusing on delivering robust open source database and cloud-native solutions. Prior to Percona, Sergey led product management and engineering teams in other organizations with a primary focus on products in infrastructure and platforms space.
 
Description Lenny Pruss is a Principal at Redpoint Ventures and focuses on investments in cloud infrastructure, developer tools, SaaS and security. Prior to Redpoint, Lenny was a Principal at RRE Ventures, a leading early-stage venture fund in New York, where he worked on the firm's investments in Datadog, Flynn, Kryptnostic, WhipTail (acq. by Cisco) and several other companies. Lenny began his career as an Analyst with RRE, and prior to returning there after his MBA he worked as a Product Manager at Dataminr and an Analyst covering software, systems and semiconductor companies at JAT Capital, a multi-billion-dollar technology, media and telecom-focused ('TMT') hedge fund. Lenny holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS from UC Berkeley where he graduated from with honors.