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/
Gladson "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. Gladson 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
... moretopics, Gladson can be found writing for several industry and corporate blogs and testing and reviewing monitoring tools for his YouTube channel.
David Clinton is a data analyst, 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 and book author with cloud certifications from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Currently a Solutions Architect at Google Cloud, with a background ranging from software development and systems engineering to consulting and cloud advisory, Experienced in cloud architecture and design, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), Agile/DevOps practices, ML and generative AI.
Jillian is a 20+ year technology industry veteran. She currently works at a Fortune 50 Enterprise, prior to that she spent 14 years at Verizon. She has worked in engineering, product management, project management, marketing operations and product marketing. Having worked in so many different roles, she had a unique end to end perspective from initial product development to bringing products to market.
She is a strong believer in ‘Technology for Good’ and works to bring it to the forefront of al
... morel messaging She is an author, speaker and believer in paying it forward helping people 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.
With an IT experience spanning over two decades, Neeraj is a Cloud Enthusiast, Enterprise Architect, and Author, currently working as Technology Head - Cloud Operations, MBU at TATA Consultancy Services, managing high-end digital transformation and cloud operation programs using solutions built on AIOps, Data Science, Cognitive Services, Power Platform, M365, Azure, etc. to elevate businesses by maximizing their RoI.
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 Berton, with over 18 years in AI, cloud, and automation, is a leading expert in Ansible automation, renowned for his practical experience and educational impact. His career includes a significant role as Vice President of Infrastructure at JPMorgan Chase & Co., where he spearheaded automation initiatives to shape future corporate infrastructure. Luca’s journey also features pioneering Smart City solutions at City Green Light and architecting scalable Amazon EC2 Linux instances at Studio Sto
... morerti Srl.
Notably, Luca spent three years with Red Hat’s Ansible Engineer Team, making key contributions to the automation community. He is the author of the best-selling “Ansible By Example(s)” series, which includes guides on VMware and Kubernetes automation, and the creator of Ansible Pilot. His platform offers 300+ practical lessons, helping over 12,000 students and professionals master Ansible and advance their careers.
Luca’s commitment to open-source contributions and education is evident in his hands-on teaching approach, which has empowered countless IT professionals. His academic background includes a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Università degli Studi di Padova, a high school diploma in Computer Science from ITIS F. Severi, and a Nanodegree in Mobile Web Specialist from Udacity, supported by a Google Developer EMEA scholarship. His career reflects a relentless pursuit of knowledge and a dedication to pushing technological boundaries.
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!
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