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Harhsvardhan C
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Harshvardhan is a Senior DevOps Engineer at Lucidity, where he has been instrumental in optimizing cloud infrastructure and implementing secure DevOps practices since November 2022. With nearly 8 years of experience in cloud engineering and DevOps, he has previously worked with Reya Health Inc., Opt IT Technologies, and FCOOS Technologies, contributing to their cloud architecture and deployment strategies. Harshvardhan is passionate about leveraging cutting-edge technologies like Azure to build secure and scalable infrastructures. He is currently based in Bengaluru, India.
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Kyle is a seasoned technology veteran with a 25-year track record of building scalable, agile, and practical development projects. At CloudBolt, he leads the development of next-generation Augmented FinOps capabilities and Cloud Fabric Orchestration. CloudBolt's mission is to help enterprise customers maximize their cloud ROI.
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RHCE – RedHat Certified Engineer
VCP5-DV – VMware Professional Datacenter Virtualization
VCAP5-DCA – VMware Advanced Professional Data Center Administration
VCAP5-DCD – VMware Advanced Professional Data Center Design
VCDX-DCV – VMware Certified Design Expert – Data Center Virtualization
Specialties: Infrastructure Architecture, Storage, Virtualization, Automation, Configuration Management
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Heidi Carson works in product marketing and management at Pepperdata, Inc. Prior to Pepperdata Heidi served in senior roles at numerous Silicon Valley enterprise tech startups and was on the team that launched PayPal Germany. Heidi holds degrees in electrical engineering from Brown University and Stanford University.
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Jed has been interested in computer networking since the days of dial-up, and even ran a very small BBS for a short period of time in the 1990s. He is currently a senior network engineer for a mid-size healthcare enterprise, and is interested in pursuing the path into service provider network design and operation.
Christian Cassaro
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Christian is a Marketing Intern for Gestalt IT. He is a very ambitious and energetic go-getter. He enjoys physical health, discussing sports, and is always looking for new ways and areas to grow.
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Lee Caswell, SVP product and solutions marketing for Nutanix.
David Chapa
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I work with customers to solve problems around Data Protection and Disaster Recovery. I work with vendors as an analyst to help look through the customer lens to best serve the customer needs. Over the course of my career, I have diversified my capabilities across business and technology leadership. My areas of expertise include strategy development/execution, professional speaking, international business, technical sales, and technical evangelism.
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Chris Chapman serves as Chief Technology Officer for MacStadium. He brings nearly 30 years of software development experience from companies including GE and Lockeed Martin. Prior to his time at MacStadium, Chris was the CTO of DataCentric, an MSP specializing in data center, cloud services, and virtualization. In addition to implementing hybrid cloud architectures with Citrix, VMWare, and Kubernetes for customers, he also invented and patented Virtual Command to connect and deliver software to any device, anywhere.
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Denny Cherry has over a decade of experience working with platforms such as Microsoft SQL Server, Hyper-V, vSphere and Enterprise Storage solutions. His areas of technical expertise include system architecture, performance tuning, security, replication, and troubleshooting. Denny has written several books and dozens of technical articles on SQL Server management and how SQL Server integrates with various other technologies.
Samuel Clements
Darrel Clute
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Darrel Clute is an IT Infrastructure Architect. Throughout his career he has been predominately focused on Network Engineering, but has spent equal amounts of time focused on Systems Engineering, primarily with UNIX based systems. Beyond his employment Darrel is also an advocate for Open Source software use in the enterprise as well as for by individuals.
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Aaron has been doing networking for quite a while and has worked in several industries ranging from multi-billion-dollar payment gateways to critical Internet infrastructure. The breadth of his exposure includes experience in the architecture, design, implementation, and operations of routing, switching, firewalling, and load balancing.
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Tech blogger and podcaster with 17 years’ experience covering IT, networking, security, and more.
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I am self-employed consultant and writer based in New Zealand. Much of my work is communicating about how IT infrastructure works and what it means for IT professionals. Outside of work I’m datacenter and VMware focussed, having created the AutoLab which is a free tool to simplify the creation of a vSphere test or training lab.
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Barry is a passionate and energetic IT infrastructure and workspace transformation specialist turned business leader. As well as achieving many industry qualifications he has been awarded the VMware vExpert title every year since 2010, alongside other accolades. Barry prides himself on his work to help shape IT strategy and lead digital transformation strategies working closely with his customers.
Barry is co-owner of ComputerWorld Systems in the UK where he manages technical strategy, pre-sales architecture and marketing.
Outside of work, Barry is an active blogger, public speaker, community contributor and has co-authored several books surrounding End User Computing solutions.
You can check out Barry's "Tech Doodles" from industry conferences, including Tech Field Day at www.techdoodles.co.uk
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Chris Cooney is a software engineer, SRE, Principal Engineer and most recently Developer Advocate. He’s worked on everything from embedded systems for controlling industrial battery units on the UK power grid, payment layers that process $1B a year, through to helping to shape the technical strategy for $120M worth of cloud and on-premise infrastructure. He’s passionate about organisational dynamics, leadership, observability and platform engineering. He's currently Head of Developer Advocacy at Coralogix.
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Rob is an Infrastructure Administrator with Oilers Entertainment Group, who recently moved into their brand new arena, Rogers Place in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. An IT generalist with over 15 years’ experience in support and administration, with a strong focus on networking and virtualization, he has a wide variety of experience including Managed Services, Education, and Sports Entertainment.
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Kristen Costagliola is the Chief Technology Officer at Syncro, where she leads the company’s engineering efforts to deliver high-quality products for managed service providers and IT professionals. With a background in software engineering and a passion for building strong, cohesive teams, she has led global engineering organizations of 150+ professionals across software development, QA, DevOps, SRE, and UX. Before joining Syncro, Kristen held leadership roles at Datto, where she oversaw engineering for multiple product lines, driving innovation and scalability. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from Fairfield University. Kristen is committed to fostering a culture of trust, openness, and inclusivity within the workplace.
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Jay Crystal is the Co-CEO of Corvex.ai, an AI infrastructure-as-a-service provider.
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Darren Cunningham is Vice President at Komprise.
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Jim Czuprynski has 40+ years of professional experience in Information Technology, serving diverse roles at various Fortune 1000 companies before becoming an Oracle DBA in 2001. Oracle awarded Jim the status of Oracle ACE Director in 2014 and is a sought-after public speaker on Oracle technology, presenting often at Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle CODE, COLLABORATE, KSCOPE, Oracle Development Community tours, and Oracle User Group conferences around the world. Jim has co-authored four books on Oracle Database technology, and has written 100+ articles on Oracle Database administration and other topics, most recently at ODTUG TechCeleration. Jim speculates about the future of technology in his blog (Generally…It Depends) and he’s also co-host of the Beyond Tech Skills podcast.
