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Muhi Majzoub
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Muhi S. Majzoub is the Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer for OpenText. He leads the development organization to define the vision and strategy for OpenText products and their transition to the cloud.
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I’m Valerii Mankovskyi, a dynamic AWS and HashiCorp-certified DevOps Engineer with over four years of experience in optimizing cloud infrastructures, particularly on AWS. I specialize in cost optimization, automation, scalable architecture design, and delivering technical solutions to complex challenges.
Previously, I worked at EPAM, where I honed my skills in large-scale system deployments, and I’m currently part of the team at ALTAMIRA.AI, driving innovative cloud strategies. I’m passionate about sharing practical insights and strategies to help teams enhance efficiency, manage high-volume workloads, and reduce operational expenses.
My fields of interest include AWS Cloud, Kubernetes, and project management.
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Jordan Martin is currently a Principal Consultant of datacenter technologies with a Cisco gold partner. He comes from a background in several industries including finance, healthcare, and most recently a global managed call center provider. He calls Allentown, PA his home but can frequently be found in various locations assisting customers in infrastructure upgrades and installations. Outside of work, Jordan is a proud husband and father of 3. If all of that wasn’t enough, Jordan recently completed the CCIE routing and switching certification ensuring his diminished relevance in networking for the foreseeable future.
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Shawn McAllister is responsible for the strategy and delivery of the Solace PubSub+ Event Streaming and Management Platform. He leads a team of incredibly talented engineers and architects in this endeavor.
Before joining Solace, Shawn led software, hardware, and test engineering teams at Newbridge Networks (later Alcatel Canada), where he was responsible for developing features on ATM and Ethernet switches as well as the 7750 Multiservice IP Router. Shawn holds a Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo, with majors in both Computer Science and Combinatorics/Optimization.
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Scott McDermott is an enterprise network engineer and blogger with over 20 years in IT and a background in multi-platform system administration. He wears lots of hats, but is particularly fond of wireless networking and network design. He enjoys a good packet capture, mentoring others, and passing certification exams.
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Richard is a network engineer with over 8 years of experience and multiple industry certifications. He is currently working for a large non-profit as a network engineer where he is responsible for their network infrastructure.
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Evan is an Information Security Manager located in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His previous roles have included Principal Solutions Architect and Senior Network Engineer. He has worked in information technology for over 20 years. His many projects have included video, voice, networking, email, and cloud technologies.
Evan is happily married, has three children, and a dog (a black lab). In his spare time, he enjoys gaming, advancing his technical skill sets, and spending time with his family.
Nikolay Mironenko
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Nikolay Mironenko is a fintech builder, problem-solver, and risk-taker who thrives at the intersection of technology and financial innovation. As co-founder and Director of Engineering at Moss, he played a pivotal role in scaling the company to a €500M+ valuation, leading the development of a spend management platform that serves over 3,000 businesses today.
Before Moss, Nikolay was Engineer at Wise (formerly TransferWise), where he helped grow the company from a team of 11 to 2,500 employees. He spearheaded the launch of Wise’s U.S. card program, enabling seamless cross-border payments for millions of users. With experience that spans startup chaos to fintech dominance, Nikolay knows firsthand what separates the survivors from the casualties in this brutal industry.
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Crystal Morin is a Cybersecurity Strategist at Sysdig tasked with bridging the gap between business and security through cloud and container-focused webinars and papers for everyone from executives to technical practitioners. She was originally a threat research engineer on the Sysdig Threat Research Team, where Crystal spent her time discovering and analyzing cyber threat actors who took advantage of the cloud. Crystal started her career as a linguist and intelligence analyst in the United States Air Force. Prior to joining Sysdig, she spent four years as a contractor for Booz Allen Hamilton, researching and reporting on terrorism and cyber threats. Crystal was responsible for helping to develop and mature Booz Allen’s cyber threat intelligence community and threat-hunting capabilities.
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Massimiliano "Max" Mortillaro is a Partner & Principal Analyst at TECHunplugged.io. He's a former 5-star VMware vExpert, one of the re-founders of the Czech Republic VMware User Group and its former leader. He's an advocate for online security, privacy, encryption and digital rights. Like his name very wrongfully hints, Max is French and lives with his family in Prague, Czech Republic. Besides being a failed sportsman he is a general bon vivant and the impersonation of your average hobbit in full size.
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Deepesh is a writer who is passionate about the intersection of business and technology. He dives deep into the ever-evolving world of AI/ML, exploring its impact on various industries. With a specific focus on cloud computing solutions like CRM and Salesforce, Deepesh's insights help businesses leverage technology for growth and optimization.
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Vikram Murali is Vice President of Observability Development for IBM Automation, which includes App Modernization, IT Automation and Network Automation. IBM Automation develops and provides several leading enterprise offerings to increase IT Operational Efficiency, Securely Integrate Apps & Systems to Remove Data Silos & Power Digital Transformation. Vikram also has close to 2 decades of experience leading and developing transaction and warehousing database solutions with skills in Data Science and Machine Learning.
Micheline Murphy
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Micheline is a lawyer turned network engineer and a regular contributor on the Cisco Learning Network. She has her CCNP in Route/Switch and passed the CCIE Data Center written exam and the CCDP. It’s not about moving the packets for her, she believes it’s about the human networking between engineers. Follow her on Twitter @MichyfishMurphy on Twitter.
A.J. Murray
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A.J. Murray is a Network Deployment Engineer for Red River. He has spent 15 years in IT as a generalist working as a Systems Administrator, Network Engineer, and IT Manager, covering Windows Server, Active Directory, and VMware Virtualization. He is now turning his focus to networking with a focus on Software-Defined network technologies, including SD-WAN and Data Center solutions. Additionally, A.J. writes articles on his blog, which can be found at blog.noblinkyblinky.com, and teaches courses as an Adjunct Professor at Champlain College. For his work as a writer/blogger A.J. has been recognized as both a Cisco Champion and VMware vExpert.
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Kevin Myers is a Global Network Architect with over 18 years of experience. He’s designed and built networks on every continent except Antarctica and is holding out hope that penguins will need Netflix one day. He specializes in design for WISP/wireline service providers as well as large enterprise data centers.
