Aamiruddin Syed is a Senior Security Architect with over decade in years of experience in the industry. He specializes in DevSecOps, Shift-Left Security, cloud security, and internal penetration testing. He has extensive expertise in automating security into CI/CD pipelines, developing security automation, and building security into infrastructure as code. He has worked on securing cloud platforms by applying security best practices to infrastructure provisioning and configuration. Leveraging his penetration testing skills, he routinely conducts targeted internal assessments of critical applications and systems to proactively identify risks. He excels at bridging the gap between security and engineering teams to enable building security directly into products.
Aamiruddin Syed holds Dual Master’s degree in Cybersecurity from Northeastern University and Jadavpur University. A recognized security advocate, he frequently speaks and has chair sessions at industry conferences including Defcon , Blackhat. He is an active contributor to open-source security tools that aim to make security seamless for developers. When he is not researching the latest application security techniques, he enjoys traveling and photography.
- Generative AI in Supply Chain Security: How I Mitigated Container Threats Before a Compliance Disaster
Jacquelyn Miccolis is a social entrepreneur and creative leader specializing in fostering innovation, inclusivity, and collaboration through impactful events, engaging talks, and creative team-building workshops. She helps organizations create inclusive, accessible experiences that drive meaningful change.
With a background in community development, psychology, and technology, Jacquelyn blends strategic insight with a deep understanding of how diverse perspectives fuel innovation. As the founder of Supernova Events, she has built a creative hub that supports a sustainable, inclusive creative economy in Atlantic Canada.
Beyond event facilitation and consulting, Jacquelyn is a self-taught website designer, developer, and Canva specialist, blending design principles with custom code to create polished, professional results for her business and freelance projects..
- Leading with Empathy: Building Inclusive, High-Performance Teams in Agile Environments
Josh is a Senior Integration Advisor at Harness Software, where he helps customers implement and scale software for controlled deployments and experimentation. He has 15 years of experience as an Integration Engineer and Solutions Architect. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Penn State.
- Trust Your Robot: Using an AI Code Assistant on a real codebase.
Justin Reock is the Deputy CTO of DX (getdx.com), and is an engineer, speaker, writer, and software practice evangelist with over 20 years of experience working in various software roles. He is an outspoken thought leader, delivering enterprise solutions, technical leadership, various publications and community education on developer productivity.
- Building 10x Organizations using Modern Productivity Metrics
Kyle is a member of the ecosystem team at Dagger, helping shape the future of CI/CD. With a background in DevOps across companies of all sizes, he enjoys sharing insights from both his successes and failures.
- Self-healing CI with AI Agents
Dr. Lu Yang holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of New Brunswick and brings with him a wealth of experience in enterprise-level High-Performance Computing (HPC) administration and management, spanning over 15 years. His expertise extends beyond HPC to encompass cloud computing and Generative AI, particularly in the context of ocean AI, data analytics, and cloud architecting projects at DeepSense. Prior to his current instructor role at the Faculty of Computer Science (FCS) of Dalhousie, Dr. Lu Yang served as the Senior Cloud Solutions Architect at DeepSense, Cloud Solution Engineer at JUUL Labs, and senior HPC Systems Specialist at ACENET and DeepSense.
Throughout his career, Dr. Lu Yang also demonstrated his passion for teaching by delivering a diverse range of Computer Science courses at various universities. With an avid interest in all aspects of cloud-related topics, Dr. Lu Yang has been helping industries and public sectors plan and develop the end-to-end data-centric architectures for various use cases.
- Digital Transformation: The Gaps
Mandi Walls is a DevOps Advocate at PagerDuty. For PagerDuty, she helps technology organizations increase their effectiveness with modern IT practices and unplanned incidents. She is a regular speaker at technical conferences when she isn’t podcasting, streaming, or writing about PagerDuty. She is interested in the emergence of new tools and workflows to make the task of operating large complex computing systems more approachable.
- Improve Your Automation to Reduce Toil
I've worked as a software engineer for more than 20 years, mostly in the field of compilers, managed runtimes and performance optimization. Most recently I'm working on low level application instrumentation with eBPF at Grafana Labs, building an OSS tool Beyla
- How not to use the Kubernetes API when deploying at scale
- Slash your cloud network costs with eBPF network monitoring
Security focused Software Engineer and Developer Advocate from a DevOps background with over a decade of experience spanning multiple sectors. Idea incubator, big picture thinker and security innovator. Builder of OSS tools to empower developers to be secure by default. On a mission to lower developer’s barriers to entry for security, remove passwords from workloads, and enable the next generation of engineers to further advance the security industry.
- Writing Terraform for unsupported resources
I am a Master's student in Applied Computer Science at Dalhousie University and I love finding hidden patterns around me. I have always been near ocean throughout my life and hence I love utilizing my knowledge of various technologies to explore the unexplored portion of ocean and it's ecosystem.
- From Coast to Cloud: Using Edge, AI and Cloud to know what’s inside the ocean
Sylvain is an entrepreneur and software engineer. He holds a patent on self-healing architectures, and is currently leading the AI Labs at Rootly, a research group dedicated to pushing the boundaries of LLMs and ML in incident response. His education company, Holberton, has trained thousands of students who have landed FAANG jobs in over 25 countries.
- AI-Driven Incident Resolution – Hype or Reality?
Xe iaso (lower case i) is the Senior Cloud Whisperer at Tigris Data. Xe has written hundreds of articles on their blog and has worked in site reliability, backend programming, devops, systems administration, and developer relations. Xe wants to help create more people with the senior title so that everyone can benefit from the lessons they've learned.
- Global Replication Made Easy