Madhu Madhanan is the Global Head – DevSecOps transformation for Wipro Digital. He specializes in large-scale systems engineering, engineering transformation and building muscle memory through gamification. Madhu leads a team of innovators building the Composable DevSecOps platform for Wipro Digital as product manager and chief architect. He has been instrumental in building Agile-DevSecOps related IPs, solutions and deployments in large enterprises for accelerating DevSecOps adoption. He specializes in application of cross domain practices like TOC, Lean, discrete event modeling, statistical modelling, Digital Twin, Octalysis, AI/ML to high performance software engineering (HPSE). Madhu is a physicist by education, an engineer by passion and a transformation director by profession.

Tara Hernandez is a professional software developer, and veteran open source contributor. As shown in the documentary Code Rush, she was the manager of Netscape Navigator development at Netscape Communications Corporations, and worked on the preparation of the original Mozilla code for public release, which led to the development of the Firefox browser. She has also worked as a Release Team Manager at Blue Martini software, Senior Infrastructure Engineer and Team Lead at PixarAnimation Studios, Senior Engineering Manager at Lithium Technologies, and currently works as the Senior Engineering Manager at Google.

Oren is a vice president of software engineering at PeerStreet, since the last February. He is responsible for building the organization and managing its entire software delivery cycle, security, and operation. During the last decade, Oren led the development of the first cloud-based Voice Over LTE Telephony Application Server. He also established and led the development organization responsible for delivering the first-in-kind OTT Live TV system. Oren is passionate about innovation enablement and believes in data-driven decision making. He serves as an advisor to startups companies and held several engineering leadership positions in AT&T, Nice Systems, and RADCOM. He has an MBA and a BSc in computer science and mathematics from Israel. Oren runs six times a week and likes hiking.

Brydin Eckert is a product manager at Macmillan Learning and currently supports iClicker’s student web and mobile apps. Prior to her career in education technology, she held positions at a number of colleges and universities, working with faculty to improve curricula and helping students make the most of their college experiences. She earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from George Mason University and resides in Colorado with her husband and daughter. 

Russ Wilson has been with Coyote Logistics for almost 6 years and currently serves as a Director of Software Development.  He has over 15 years of professional software development experience, mostly in the .NET space.  He’s passionate about helping developers improve their abilities, keeping up on emerging technologies, the Chicago Cubs, woodworking, and all things Harry Potter.  He currently resides in the Atlanta area with his wife and 20 month-old daughter.

Sacha Labourey is Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at CloudBees, the enterprise software delivery company. Sacha has been an active leader in open source software for twenty years. He was a core contributor to Marc Fleury’s JBoss project, implementing its original clustering features. When JBoss became a business, he founded JBoss’ European headquarters in 2003 and served as GM for Europe and then CTO. Red Hat acquired JBoss in 2006, making Sacha GM of their middleware division.

Sacha established the CloudBees work-anywhere approach from the start, a decade before most companies were forced to make the leap. He works from Neuchâtel, Switzerland where he lives with his wife, daughter, and two cats. It was from Neuchâtel that he co-founded CloudBees with François Déchery in 2010.

As the chief product officer and interim chief marketing officer at CloudBees, Shawn Ahmed embodies the nexus of product engineering and marketing. With a firm hand on the reins of the CloudBees product portfolio, Shawn meticulously crafts product and solutions delivery, pricing, strategic planning, competitive landscape analysis, and market management. Shawn masterminded a transformative shift, evolving the company’s culture and operations into a buyer-centric, value-focused DevOps leader.

Prior to CloudBees, Shawn left his mark at industry giants like Splunk and SAP, where he also held senior product roles. He is a two-time CEO, including at Pivotus which he brought to a successful acquisition before joining CloudBees. An alumnus of the prestigious executive management program at UCLA, Shawn now resides in Southern California with his wife and three children. His strategic foresight and relentless drive are instrumental in pivoting the CloudBees product suite into a software delivery platform, tailor-made to address the demanding needs of global enterprises.