Conference Speakers

Dorothy Aubut is a thought leader and change agent passionate about partnering with executives and organizations to deliver maximum business value, reduce waste, and continuously improve products, efficiencies, and peoples’ abilities to adapt. Unlocking people and team's potential to maximize their own performance. She has over 20 years’ experience in...Read more

Arlen Bankston was at the vanguard of the agile movement, beginning to practice within two years of the Agile Manifesto’s writing. He was among the first to explicitly blend lean systems thinking and user experience practices with agile software development practices. Arlen was one of the earliest Certified Scrum Trainers,...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

It's been an interesting ride! Kara Burgan spent a decade working on Avionics and ESM systems at LM Federal Systems-Owego. Then kids came and she decided to take 15 year hiatus. During this time, she performed a lot of volunteer work with the PTA, Girl Scouts, and other organizations. Returning...Read more

Charlotte Chang is a Experience Director with nearly 20 years of experience in technology and product strategy. She enjoys working with executives, managers, and teams to create Systems of Compassion that provide a sustainable, humane, inclusive experience for all contributors throughout product development. Recently, her experience has focused on...Read more

Michael Feathers is the Chief Architect of Globant and the Founder and Director of R7K Research & Conveyance, a company specializing in software and organization design. Prior to forming R7K, Michael was the Chief Scientist of Obtiva and a consultant with Object Mentor International. Over the past 25 years he...Read more

Jessica Fritsch has over 16 years of experience in IT and development, and 12 years of experience in management across smaller mom and pop software companies, global corporate conglomerates, and most recently a start up. She has both her Microsoft DevOps Engineer Expert certification and the Certified ScrumMaster title. She...Read more

John Halberstadt is Lithespeed’s Director of Agile Consulting, as well as an Enterprise Agile Consultant, Coach and Instructor, leveraging more than two decades of executive leadership experience as a CIO, CTO and Vice President of Technology, transforming enterprises’ ability to deliver value through agile and lean approaches. Halberstadt has led...Read more

John Jenkins has been in the software testing trenches for over 15 years, creating testing solutions for both front-end and back-end testing challenges. With around 10 years experience working with Selenium type solutions, and close to five years working with API and backend automation, he has begun focusing his efforts...Read more

Joylynn Kirui is an infosec evangelist who believes in empowering developers and users on security best practices. She has vast experience in web and mobile app security testing and DevSecOps. She is among the Top 50 Women in Cyber Security Africa 2020 finalists, a finalist in Woman Hacker of the...Read more

Paul Klinker is currently the Executive Director at ManTech and a software architect focusing on cloud native development, DevSecOps, design and development, and application integration. Paul works in the Innovation and Capability Office focusing on R&D to bring innovations to our customers. Prior to ManTech he has worked for Northrop...Read more

Leandro Melendez is a performance testing advocate with K6-Grafana helping everyone to ramp up on their performance practices. He has over 20 years of experience in IT and over 10 in the performance testing practice where he served multiple S&P500 customers all over the USA, Mexico,...Read more

Teri Musick is the Director of the CGI Federal Emerging Technology Practice Agile Practice and Center of Excellence, an Agile Coach/Mentor and a SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) with more than 18 years of experience in technology-based programs and projects in the US Federal Government, and telecommunication sectors. Her career started...Read more

Talia Nassi is a Lead Developer Advocate at Akamai Technologies and international keynote speaker who delivers content on building in the cloud, the software development lifecycle, testing in production, and Linode. She enjoys helping developers understand how to build efficient applications in the cloud seamlessly and at scale. She speaks...Read more

Amitav Parida is a Sr. Director, Head of HR and Legal Tech at JLL with decades of experience in technology consulting, agile transformation and building high-performing teams. In his prior roles, Amitav has helped advance the tech roadmaps of a number of global financial clients in Europe, Asia and North...Read more

Jeff Pierce has more than 20 years of experience in software engineering management, specializing in program, project, and software quality assurance management. Jeff is also experienced in building technical teams that are rapidly able to implement solutions and deliver business value. More recently, Jeff has focused on Agile project management...Read more

Hamida Rebai is currently a Senior Cloud Application Architect Software architect at Revenu Québec and worked in many sectors in her career including telecommunications, automotive, finance, and banking. Awarded by Microsoft as Most Valuable Professional in Developer Technologies, Azure Certified, Microsoft Certified Trainer, author, speaker, contributing code to projects and...Read more

Shelley Rueger has over 25 years of experience in software testing and quality and has led organizations in companies both large and small in many industries. She has been able to improve quality by implementing industry best practices and by working closing with those in development, product, and support teams...Read more

Dr. Tawanna Sargent is currently an Agile Coach with Agile Private Investments, LLC. She started her IT career as a Helpdesk Analyst and this role increased her tech awareness in infrastructure, networking, application migrations, computer science, and information systems. While working at an IT Firm in 2009, agile was introduced...Read more

Deanna Stanley has had a diverse career in software engineering, starting with developing protocols for the first internet telecommunications equipment to the present where she helps government organizations adopt agile and DevSecOps processes. She has been the only female engineer in her company and is very happy to see the...Read more

Alejandra Thomas is an Industrial and Systems Engineer turned Software Developer, passionate about empowering individuals and organizations through technology. After being introduced to Kubernetes as a Software Engineer, she’s now working as a Developer Advocate for Testkube, looking to ease companies’ transition into the cloud and improve the way teams...Read more

Tanvi Tyagi has a DevOps background for over 5 years. She is heavily interested in emerging technologies and customer-centric solutions. You can often catch her talking about how to utilize new to ship better software faster and how a simple mindset shift can move mountains when it comes to improving...Read more