Lars is a Principal Magician with Arkahna, author, trainer, Microsoft MVP, community leader, aspiring Microsoft Azure expert and part time classic car collector. He is heavily involved in the space of cloud computing services, especially Azure, and is a published author, solution architect and writer for numerous publications. He has been a part of the software development community for the past 20 years and co-organises the DDD Melbourne community conference, organises developer events with Mic
... morerosoft, and also runs a part time car restoration business. He has spoken at numerous technical events around the world and is an expert in Australian Outback Internet.
I'm Anthony Alampi, an interactive designer and developer living in Houston, Texas. I'm a former professional video game developer and current design consultancy owner with over 17 years of programming experience and over 9 years of design experience. User-centric design is my passion, and I believe that when users come first, they come back!
About My Company:
X Factor Consultants is a digital design and consulting company based in The Woodlands, Texas. Our cross-disciplinary team consists of
... more leading industry specialists from the web, security, communications, and marketing sectors that combine their skills to provide next-level consulting services to businesses and non-profits in a broad variety of industries.
X Factor develops bold and creative new strategies to help our clients make the most of their business technology. From spearheading website and app redesigns, to developing technology training and producing online learning courses to re-skill workers, X Factor does it all.
Learn more about what X Factor can do for your organization at: https://www.xfactorconsultants.com/
Jean Tunis is a performance engineer and principal consultant with RootPerformance. For over two decades, he has been helping IT teams minimize cost and lost productivity due to performance problems. The last 5+ of those years have been as an independent consultant. Jean works with companies in various industries - from financial services to healthcare - to improve end user experience through better measurement and monitoring. When not consulting and training on performance-related topics, Jean
... morecan be found writing for several industry and corporate blogs and testing and reviewing monitoring tools for his YouTube channel.
David Clinton is an AWS Solutions Architect and a Linux server administrator. He's written books on cloud and Linux administration, IT security, and data analytics.
IT professional with a PhD in Software-Defined Networking and professional cloud certifications from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. With a background ranging from software development and systems engineering to pre-sales and professional services for Cloud migrations, I have accumulated experience in Hybrid cloud infrastructure, cloud architecture and design, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) as well as Agile/DevOps practices.
Jillian works at a large enterprise company where she has global responsibility for ensuring CSPs can monetize their investments in 5G through future Enterprise use cases. She is long-time Telecom industry veteran. Previous to her current role, Jillian spent 14 years at Verizon.
She joined Network Engineering during the launch of FTTP (FiOS) where she managed over a billion dollars in inventory in the Central Offices. While she worked, she received a Technical MBA and upon completion started a n
... moreew role in Product Management where she managed a B2B SaaS. She went onto various roles in Marketing Operations and Sales Enablement. She is a strong believer in ‘Technology for Good’ and works to bring it to the forefront of all messaging. She is an author, speaker and believer in paying it forward helping women in the industry find their voice
and share their accomplishments. She currently resides in Massachusetts with her husband, daughter and dog. In her free time, she enjoys volunteering, spending time with her family, horseback riding, eating and working out.
Neeraj is an Azure Enthusiast, Enterprise Architect, and Technical Program Manager. With an IT experience spanning 21 years, Neeraj is leading high-end programs focused on digital and cloud services by architecting and designing solutions and infrastructure on Azure that includes, but not limited to Cognitive Services, Data Science, IoT, Cloud Migrations, etc. to benefit business by maximizing their RoI. Neeraj is a certified Azure Architect, Administrator, and IoT Developer and is passionate ab
... moreout authoring real-world problem-solving courses on Azure to help organizations and learners in their cloud endeavors.
Axel Sirota is a Microsoft Certified Trainer with a deep interest in Deep Learning and Machine Learning Operations. He has a Masters degree in Mathematics and after researching in Probability, Statistics and Machine Learning optimisation, he works as an AI and Cloud Consultant as well as being an Author and Instructor at Pluralsight, Develop Intelligence, and O'Reilly Media.
Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan is a Senior Software Engineer from Rabwah, Pakistan, and likes .NET Core and Node.js for regular everyday development. He is an expert with Cloud, Mobile, and API development. Afzaal has experience with the Azure platform and likes to build cross-platform libraries/software with .NET Core. Afzaal is an Alibaba Cloud MVP, twice he has been awarded Microsoft MVP status for his community leadership in software development, five times CodeProject MVP status for technical writing
... more and mentoring, and 4 times C# Corner MVP status in the same field. Afzaal is an active open source contributor on GitHub and GitLab, you can find him as afzaal-ahmad-zeeshan.
Luca is an Automation Engineer who has been working for more than a decade on Linux Operating Systems and Open Source technologies. He has experience automating Tasks and Infrastructure using many technologies. For many years Luca has taught Linux at conferences and schools. Luca Berton is an Ansible Automation Expert who has been working with JPMorgan Chase & Co. and worked with the Red Hat Hat Ansible Engineer Team for three years. Published author of the Ansible for VMware by Examples and Ans
... moreible for Kubernetes by Examples best-seller of the Ansible By Example(s) practical book series.
Matt Conran has more than 24 years of networking industry with entrepreneurial start-ups, government organizations and others. He is a lead Network & Security Architect and successfully delivered major global greenfield service provider and data center networks. Core skill set includes advanced data center, service provider, security, and virtualization technologies. He loves to travel and has a passion for landscape photography.
Matt is a DevOps engineer and solution architect with over 10 years of experience in systems administration, architecture and design, primarily in the on-premises data center. He has a new found passion for Cloud and DevOps processes, tools and techniques and enjoys helping customers and the community realize value from technology. Over the past several years Matt has experienced first-hand the power of the communities within the wider IT industry and enjoys learning from others and, where possi
... moreble, giving back. Matt has presented at several conferences in Australia and America and has been a VMware vExpert since 2016. Outside of the tech life, his 2 young children keep him busy and when time permits he indulges his love of music by picking up one of his guitars and making everyone around him wish they had ear plugs!
Vlad is an Office 365 consultant helping organizations get the most out their Microsoft 365 Digital Workplace. IT Professional at heart, Vlad focuses on helping administrators deploy, manage, automate, and configure governance across services such as SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, and Microsoft Teams.
As an author, Microsoft Certified Trainer and recognized international speaker, Vlad has helped over a million IT Professionals and end-users across the globe to better understand and to ge
... moret the most out of Office 365 and the greater Microsoft 365 platform. Vlad is the author of three SharePoint books published by Apress and over 25 courses on Pluralsight covering Microsoft 365, Azure, and the Power Platform.
Timothy Warner is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Cloud and
Datacenter Management who is based in Nashville, TN. His professional
specialties include Microsoft Azure, cross-platform PowerShell, and all
things Windows Server-related. You can reach Tim via Twitter
(@TechTrainerTim), LinkedIn or his blog, AzureDepot.com.