Conference Speakers

Derek Ashmore is the Application Transformation Practice Lead at Asperitas Consulting. He helps companies leverage AWS and Azure cloud platforms to gain a competitive advantage with a focus on DevSecOps, infrastructure code, cloud computing, containerization, making applications cloud-native, and migrating applications to the cloud. Derek routinely speaks at technical conferences...Read more

Chris Ayers is a Senior Customer Engineer on the Fast Track for Azure team at Microsoft. He is a Co-Lead for the DevOps Category inside the Fast Track Team. Previously, Chris lead an Azure Practice and a DevOps Practice, and was a Consultant and Architect. He has a focus in...Read more

Lee Barnes has over 25 years of experience in the Software Quality Assurance and Testing field. He has been involved in the implementation of test automation and performance testing solutions in hundreds of environments across a wide array of industries. Most recently, Lee has been involved with bringing quality practices...Read more

Shaun Bradshaw is Vice President of Agile & Quality of Zenergy Technologies, a modern software delivery solutions firm with multiple industry experts under one roof. With more than 25 years in the IT industry, Shaun is a recognized expert, coach, and thought leader in QA and test process improvement, metrics,...Read more

Tricia Broderick, co-author of Lead without Blame, is a leadership and organizational advisor. With over twenty-five years of experience, her transformational leadership ignites the growth of leaders and resilient high-performing teams to deliver quality outcomes. Tricia boldly role models putting people first. She aims to create inclusive connections and collaborations...Read more

Robert Clawson is a talented, energetic, and insightful coach focused on helping teams align on their best way of working to build trust and accountability. He has spent more than a decade in the IT field with a primary focus on agile transformations and frameworks, product development, and software quality.Read more

David Fogel has referred to himself as an Agile enthusiast since 2008. Threaded in Dave’s two decades in IT, he has been a Satellite Communications Operator/Maintainer, Technical Trainer, Criminal Investigator, Nuclear Biological Chemical Safety Officer, Scrum Master, Book Club founder, House Concert Host, Boardgame Geek, SciFi Geek, Process Geek, and...Read more

Magdalena Gasser has worked in various industries, empowering her teams to work in a high-performance, self-organized way. As a servant leader, she coaches and supports her product teams to deliver value incrementally. She aims to increase individual and overall team performance. Her strength and passion reside in helping teams become...Read more

For the last 20+ years, Steven has been a leader in the Tampa Bay technology scene. Most recently, he served as the Managing Director of Transformation & Innovation at the software consultancy AgileThought. After helping to sell the firm in 2019 and take it public in 2021, he founded Compass...Read more

Nathan Hamiel is Senior Director of Research at Kudelski Security, where he leads the fundamental and applied research team. Part of the Innovation group, his team focuses on privacy, advanced cryptography, emerging technologies, and special projects. Nathan is focused on emerging and disruptive technologies and his research includes new approaches...Read more

Sheyinka Harry is an Agile Coach and the Manager of Agile Transformation at QualityWorks Consulting Group. Over the last five years, she has worked with product development teams across the US, Latin America, and the Caribbean to help streamline and optimize their software delivery process and build products that their...Read more

Jennifer Hwe is a Lead DevSecOps Engineer for Northrop Grumman and has been working in the industry for over 16 years. She has been a part of many teams such as development, quality assurance, operations and site reliability engineering as a DevSecOps engineer for a wide variety of companies (finance,...Read more

Shanthi Karpurapu has more than 13 years of experience leading, designing, and developing test automation solutions for various platforms across health care, banking, and manufacturing industries using Agile and
Waterfall methodologies. She has vast experience building reusable and extendable automation frameworks for web applications, REST, and SOAP services with...Read more

Tariq King is the Vice President of Product-Service Systems at EPAM, where he manages a portfolio that lies at the intersection of software products and services, and supports the business through technology consulting. Tariq has over 15 years' experience in software engineering and testing and has formerly held positions as...Read more

Natalia Kuzmina, PhD is a Head of Agile Practices at S&P Global Ratings division focusing on successfully leading large-scale Agile Transformations, Enterprise Agile coaching, mentoring, and teaching. Being a passionate Agilist, Technologist, and a creative problem-solver, Natalia promotes sustainable development with the people first culture. ...Read more

Catherine Louis is a Certified Scrum TrainerTM, independent Agile coach, and co-founder of the #PoDojo, who lives in North Carolina. With over 20 years of experience in complex product development in both software & hardware, Catherine has previously led Agile transition efforts in top telecommunications firms and worked with North...Read more

Harshad Mehta is an accomplished professional with a diverse set of core consulting skills including functional leadership, delivery/program management, quality assurance and analytics. Harshad brings over 18 years of experience in the IT services industry with cross domain experience in Human Capital Management, Insurance, Banking and Financials, Energy Utilities, Pharmaceutical,...Read more

Apurva Misra is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Truckstop and also working on helping companies to integrate GenAI in their processes. She has a Master’s from the University of Waterloo, where her research was at the intersection of driving and machine learning. Apurva also has a keen interest in...Read more

Bharat Nagpal is a Director and Senior Technologist at Capital One. During his tenure at the company, Bharat has led multiple technology transformation initiatives, from Cloud Migration to Financial Products Re-platforming. Currently, Bharat is leading the modernization of a credit card platform. Bharat is well known for creating high performing...Read more

With passion of lifelong learning, Prashant Patil has been leading his life by setting examples, adapting to situations and solving technical challenges. He completed his Master's from Southern Methodist University in 2006 and started working at AT&T as a Performance Test Engineer after graduation. His keen eye for detail, efforts toward streamlining...Read more

Dana Pylayeva is a DevOps culture coach, ICF Credentialed Professional Certified Coach (PCC), Scrum Alliance Certified Enterprise Coach(CEC), trainer, international speaker, author of several books and business games. Her games (“Introduction to DevOps with Lego and Chocolate”, “Fear in the Workplace” and others) are all based on stories from the trenches. She draws...Read more

Dionny Santiago is an Engineering Manager at Indeed and has 12+ years of industry experience working as an SW/QA/ML engineer, software/test architect, and engineering manager. Dionny completed his master's thesis on exploring the intersection between AI and test automation and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in this problem space. One...Read more

Shari Soroka is a SAFe® Program Consultant, Agile Transformation Coach, and SAFe® Trainer. She is enabled to train and certify learners in Lean Portfolio Management, Release Train Engineer, SAFe® Product Owner / Product Manager, SAFe® Scrum Master, SAFe® for Teams, Leading SAFe®, and SAFe® for Government. Previously with and international...Read more

Tom Stiehm has been developing applications and managing software development teams for over twenty years. As CTO of Coveros, he is responsible for the oversight of all technical projects and integrating new technologies and testing practices into software development projects. Recently, Tom has been focusing on how to incorporate DevSecOps...Read more

Wilson Tarleton is the global leader for Protiviti’s Platform Engineering Team within the Technology Service and Modern Delivery practice specializing in DevOps tooling, optimization, Internal Development Platforms (IDP), and abstraction layer automation. Wilson leads the Protiviti partnership with Progress Chef, specializing in Infrastructure as Code, Compliance as Code, and application...Read more