Conference Speakers

AshLea Allberry is an information technology leader and vice president of operations for Nanonation, Inc., a software product company focusing on digital experiences within public spaces. AshLea manages software development, design, and quality assurance teams. Previously, AshLea was part of the executive team with a software services company, where she...Read more

The founder of BrightLogic, an agile consulting company, Heidi Araya consults worldwide, both virtually and on-site, with customers who need agile coaching, transformation, and process improvement. Her specialty is assessing business needs, and establishing the right methodology and process to achieve strategic and team goals. Process improvement has been Heidi’s...Read more

Adam Auerbach is the senior director of technology for advanced testing and release services for Capital One Financial Corporation, a diversified bank with 65-million customer accounts worldwide. Adam is responsible for Capital One’s enterprise performance and automated testing departments as well as enterprise release management and test data management. Since...Read more

Bryan Batty brings more than ten years of software engineering experience to Coveros. His development experience includes .NET, Java, and Ruby. He has been increasingly involved in application security, including coaching development teams on secure coding, pushing security practices farther left in the development lifecycle, and automating security where practical....Read more

David Bernstein is the author of Beyond Legacy Code: Nine Practices to Extend the Life (and Value) of Your Software, an insider’s view of the software industry drawn from his decades of hands-on experience as a software developer, trainer, and consultant to some of the biggest players in the business....Read more

Micah Breedlove is a senior developer and dev team lead at iostudio. He began working with PHP in late 1998 and has been developing full time using Symfony since 2009. Micah has written and maintained applications for companies including Procter & Gamble, Walmart, and the National Guard. Previously a senior...Read more

Passionately focused on the facilitation of high-performance software development environments, Tricia Broderick has more than seventeen years of experience in software development. Her leadership, training, and coaching helped lay the groundwork to shift teams from one-year product cycles to daily delivery of high-quality software and services. Tricia shares stories and...Read more

Lisa Calkins is an entrepreneur who grew a multimillion dollar business from her back porch, nurturing a company for more than twenty years from the beginning of the Internet to the .com bust. With years of mobile and custom software development and technology strategy experience, Lisa has successfully infused real...Read more

Chief architect for Intel IT's DevOps initiative, Sherry Chang leads the DevOps Community of Practice. She is entrenched in coaching and leading Intel CIO’s mandated DevOps transformation effort. Involved in software development for more than twenty years, Sherry’s professional interests include software patents, test-driven development, continuous delivery, and infrastructure as...Read more

LeadingAgile CEO and founder Mike Cottmeyer is passionate about solving the challenges associated with agile in larger, more complex enterprises. To that end, he and his team are dedicated to providing large-scale agile transformation services to help pragmatically, incrementally, and safely introduce agile methods. Mike spends most of his time...Read more

Roland Cuellar has focused exclusively on agile software development and lean business process improvement for the last 12 years. During that time, Roland has worked with a number of business and governmental clients on enterprise agile adoption. Roland has spoken at numerous conferences and has published a number of articles...Read more

Madhumita Das, who goes by Madhu, is passionate about QA. She started her lifelong commitment to the software industry in 1995 as a software developer and moved to the QA arena in 1998. For more than two decades now, Madhu has worked as a developer, tester, manager, and agile enabler...Read more

After more than twenty years as a software developer, Michael Durrant recognized his true passion for quality engineering and for the past five years has worked in several Boston-based small- to medium-sized startups including Zipcar and Everquote, where he currently works as the principal quality engineer. Michael is a passionate...Read more

An agile methodologist, practitioner, and coach, Bob Galen helps guide leaders and teams in their pragmatic adoption and organizational shift toward Scrum and other agile methods. Bob is often called “a Coach of Coaches” because of his deep and broad experience in the agile arena. He is director, agile practices...Read more

Robin Goldsmith, JD, works directly with and trains business/systems professionals in requirements analysis, quality and testing, software acquisition, project management and leadership, metrics, ROI, and process improvement. Robin authored Discovering REAL Business Requirements for Software Project Success; the forthcoming book Cut Creep—Put Business Back in Business Analysis to Discover REAL...Read more

Ellen Grove helps teams and organizations of all sizes discover ways to work effectively together by coaching them to put agile values and principles into practice in many different ways. Even though Ellen works with teams and leaders at multinational financial institutions and public sector corporations, she uses playful techniques...Read more

Chris Haddad is chief architect at Karux LLC, where he leads teams that craft solutions incorporating DevOps best practices, flexibly scale cloud-native components, and deliver container-driven microservices. For more than twenty five years, Chris has been an early adopter of game-changing technologies and model-driven processes. A frequent conference speaker, he...Read more

For more than twenty years, Arthur Hicken has been involved in automating various practices at Parasoft. He has worked on projects involving software development lifecycle, software security, complex web applications, and integration with legacy systems. Arthur has helped IT departments in Cisco, Vanguard, Motorola, and other major companies improve their...Read more

As senior director for Astadia, Will Hurley helps clients achieve desired system and product lifecycle characteristics. During his more than twenty year career, Will has leaned into numerous software lifecycle and security initiatives. He managed layered security initiatives for TBMCS and two national labs. Since leaving the Air Force, Will...Read more

Raj Indugula heads the technology practice at LitheSpeed LLC, where he drives product development initiatives using lean+Agile techniques. Raj provides coaching, training, and mentoring to organizations transitioning to Agile, and to those looking to deepen their agile adoption with CI/CD, test automation, TDD, and ATDD/BDD. He has nineteen years of...Read more

Andy Kaufman started his career as a software developer and was promoted into management for all the wrong reasons. After learning many lessons on his path from front-line manager to senior executive, Andy founded the Institute for Leadership Excellence & Development Inc. He is now an international speaker, author of...Read more

As a software QA architect, agile coach, and coder, Stacy Kirk has championed quality and process innovation in software development for more than twenty years. Stacy has led global IT teams to deliver cutting-edge web, mobile, and enterprise applications in the entertainment, security, advertising, finance, healthcare, and telecom industries. She...Read more

After working in various management and technical positions in software development and product management, Philip Lew leads XBOSoft’s direction and strategy as CEO. A speaker at numerous trade and academic conferences, Phil has worked with hundreds of organizations to assess the quality of their software, examine software quality processes, and...Read more

Don MacIntyre provides agile consulting, coaching, and training from the C-level to the team level. He has led agile transitions in enterprises of all shapes and sizes, and has extensive experience across many industries from enterprise software to mobile and the IoT. A certified enterprise coach and agile leadership consultant,...Read more

Abraham Marin-Perez is a Java programmer, author, speaker, and agile consultant. Abraham has been working in software development for a decade, paying special attention to what maximizes a team's capacity to deliver in the long term. This has led him to study everyday programming habits and techniques that ensure the...Read more

Judith Mills is interested in people. Rising from software engineer to VP of development at a global software company, she is equally comfortable talking about building great applications as she is working on organizational strategy. Judith’s interest in people and her desire to create great work environments where people can...Read more

Ken Mugrage is a technology evangelist for ThoughtWorks, focused on providing education on DevOps and continuous delivery. He began his IT career in the early 1990s as a system administrator for Seattle’s first Internet service provider. Ken went on to form his own web development company in 1994, creating some...Read more

As founder and CEO of Total Performance Consulting, Amit Patel brings more than fifteen years of experience in performance engineering, quality assurance, and software testing. Amit prides himself on being a vital part of his client’s development team, delivering world-class performance engineering, quality assurance, and test automation during all stages...Read more

Bob Payne is a change agent at LitheSpeed. As an early adopter of Extreme Programming, Scrum, and SAFe, he has worked exclusively as a lean and agile transformation leader since 1999. Bob hosts the Agile Toolkit podcast and has produced more than 170 podcasts, recording a variety of industry leaders...Read more

Robb Pieper is Principal Consultant and founder of Responsive Advisors, a management consulting firm focused on holistically improving organizations. He’s a Scrum.org certified trainer and coach having taught agility to thousands of people across the country. Robb has helped numerous clients outside of software development increase agility...Read more

Vicki Pope is an American Society of Quality certified software quality engineer and the deputy software quality assurance manager for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Vicki analyzes legal and contractual SQA requirements and translates them into meaningful and usable information for software development and user teams at the Lab. This...Read more

For the past ten years Ryan Ripley has worked on agile teams in development, ScrumMaster, and management roles. He’s worked at various Fortune 500 companies in the medical device, wholesale, and financial services industries. Ryan is great at taking tests and holds the PMI-ACP, PSM I, PSM II, PSE, PSPO...Read more

Rob Sabourin, P. Eng., has more than thirty-three years of management experience leading teams of software development professionals. A highly-respected member of the software engineering community, Rob has managed, trained, mentored, and coached hundreds of top professionals in the field. He frequently speaks at conferences and writes on software engineering,...Read more

Adam Serediuk brings more than fourteen years of operations experience in high scalability architecture and leadership at consumer and enterprise focused businesses. As xMatters’ director of operations, Adam is responsible for developing the company’s cloud platform, and scaling DevOps through salient solutions and innovative thinking. A natural technologist with a...Read more

Andrew Smith is a senior systems architect and agile coach at Innovative Software Engineering (ISE). Andrew coaches teams, writes software, teaches agile, heads ISE’s engineering/agile practices community, and leads client engagements. With almost thirty years of experience in systems engineering and test, software development, and technical leadership, Andrew has worked...Read more

A product coach at DevJam, Anne Steiner helps teams incorporate agile practices that improve product quality and customer satisfaction—without adding superfluous process. Anne has nearly twenty years in the software industry working as a front-end developer, product definition engineer, product manager, and coach. She served as a logistics specialist in...Read more

An agile/lean coach and consultant, Satish Thatte has more than thirty years of industry experience in software development and management (VersionOne, Texas Instruments, Bellcore, and LG Electronics), agile methods, and agile coaching and consulting (with seventy-five clients). He is a SAFe Program Consultant, Certified ScrumMaster, Certified Scrum Product Owner, and...Read more

Al Wagner is an IBM technical evangelist with more than twenty years of practical field experience in development roles driving thought leadership, strategic initiatives, and tangible solutions around DevOps and continuous delivery. Focusing mainly on deployment automation and continuous testing, Al has practical knowledge of the IBM DevOps solution having...Read more

James Waletzky is a partner at Crosslake Technologies, where he performs technical due diligence on software companies, optimizes software engineering systems, and enables development team improvements in time-to-market, productivity, and overall quality. He has more than twenty years of experience in the software industry, including eleven years...Read more

Dave West is the product owner at Scrum.org. Previously, as chief product officer at Tasktop responsible for product management, engineering, and architecture, Dave was instrumental in growing Tasktop from a services business into a VC-backed product business with a team of almost 100. He led the development of the Rational...Read more