Speakers

Aagam Shah
Aagam Shah (Data Scientist Red Hat)

Aagam is just a small kid with relevant skills and passion to make the world a better place. He was awarded with scholarship from Google for Udacity’s Android Developer Nanodegree, which allowed him to boast himself as an Android Developer. But life had his own plans, he found his interest in Data Science and tried a few projects, which eventually landed him at Red Hat in Fabric 8 Analytics team. Right now, his day usually involves solving problems which are a mix of Software Engineering and Data Science.


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Aagam Shah Data Scientist Red Hat
Aayush Arora
Aayush Arora (Web Developer Coding Blocks)

Aayush is a field Marshal of Frontend Applications, thriving to innovate frontend with accessible Interfaces. An innovation strategist and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bootcamper graduate, he brings 4+ years of experience in Web Development, Accessibility with his expertise in Angular Framework. Since, 2+ years, he has mentored around 1 lakh students across the globe for Udacity under Google Scholarship programmes and 20+ startups under Pluralsight. Aayush has always been a prominent voice for FOSSASIA during GSoC and has been contributing continuously to the growth of the communities such as FOSSASIA, NASA and CloudCV.He has a passion for solving Accessibility issues and is working as an Instructor & Product Engineer at Coding Blocks, New Delhi.


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Aayush Arora Web Developer Coding Blocks
Abhinav Khare
Abhinav Khare (Full Stack Developer FOSSASIA)

Abhinav is one of the lead developers of the Open event project. He was a Google Summer of Code student in 2017, and has been mentoring the project since. Currently he is working on taking the new version of the open event into production phase. 


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Sun, 17th Mar Event Hall 1-2 (Community Stage)

09:00 - 10:00 •  Ask Me Anything (and breakfast)

Abhinav Khare Full Stack Developer FOSSASIA
Abhishek Ranjan
Abhishek Ranjan (Senior Software Development Engineer Bundl Technologies Pvt Ltd)

Abhishek Ranjan has been passionate about engineering, technology and modern developments in software from childhood. He obtained his Engineering degree in Computer Science in 2012 from BIT Mesra. Mr Ranjan worked as Software Developer in Oracle working for MySQL database Runtime development team from 2012 to 2017.  He has been MySQL developer, contributor and user for past ten years. He joined Pramati Technologies as Principal Engineer in 2017, working for Oath Inc(AOL) on online video advertisement servers. He is currently employed by Bundl Technologies, famously known as Swiggy, biggest online food delivery platform in India and helping more than a million hungry souls daily to get to the delicious food.


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Abhishek Ranjan Senior Software Development Engineer Bundl Technologies Pvt Ltd
Adnan Jalaludin
Adnan Jalaludin (Design Engineer, Electronics and Embedded Systems 2-Watt Elements)
Experienced Design Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the computer hardware industry. Skilled in Embedded Software, Embedded Linux, C#, Computer Electronics Development, and Debugging. Strong engineering professional with a BSc, Hons. focused in Computer Engineering from City, University of London.

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Adnan Jalaludin Design Engineer, Electronics and Embedded Systems 2-Watt Elements
Aiko Klostermann
Aiko Klostermann (Consultant/Developer ThoughtWorks)

Aiko works as a consultant and developer for ThoughtWorks. He is passionate about software craftsmanship, clean code, and software development methodologies. While working with clients he focusses on improving the development process and code quality of the teams he's working with. Lately, he has worked with clients to deliver large-scale machine learning solutions.


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Aiko Klostermann Consultant/Developer ThoughtWorks
Akshat Garg
Akshat Garg (Developer FOSSASIA)

Akshat Garg is a passionate developer and enthusiast, who loves to build products and technology. He has a demonstrated history of working in the startup industry and is very keen to learn new technologies that pushes human race forward. He has worked on developing web applications, with an expertise in front-end development with React & Redux. He believes that language and frameworks should never be a barrier for building awesome products . He has been actively contributing to various open source organisations like FOSSASIA, Mozilla, etc. Apart from technology, he loves travelling and enjoys his hobby of photography.


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Akshat Garg Developer FOSSASIA
Akshat Jain
Akshat Jain (Student Developer in Google Summer of Code 2018 with FOSSASIA FOSSASIA)

I am a 2nd year undergraduate student studying Computer Science and Engineering in Indian Institute of Technology Patna (IIT Patna), India. I am a full stack web developer and an Open Source enthusiast.

I successfully completed my Google Summer of Code 2018 with FOSSASIA, and have been an active contributor to its various projects since then. I worked on FOSSASIA's SUSI.AI project, which is a rule-based personal assistant. I have also been a Google Code-in 2018 Mentor in FOSSASIA. I was also a featured speaker in Jugaadfest 2018.

I am a tech geek who love learning about new stuff. I'm deeply passionate about software development. Apart from web development, I have recently been involved with Machine Learning and Blockchain technology too and found these fields extremely interesting.


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Akshat Jain Student Developer in Google Summer of Code 2018 with FOSSASIA FOSSASIA
Amit Bhattacharya
Amit Bhattacharya (Software Development Senior Manager Oracle)

Experienced Senior Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the Database technology(MySQL, IBM DB2, Sybase). I've around 20 years of experience and have worked with companies like Oracle, Microsoft, IBM and Sybase. I'm technically skilled in MySQL, SQL, Unix, Linux, Shell Scripting and Java. I'm currently responsible for testing of Optimizer and InnoDB features and enhancements in MySQL. I manage and technically lead a team of QA Engineers who takes care of testing MySQL,creating/maintaining frameworks and tools and benchmarking various features.


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Amit Bhattacharya Software Development Senior Manager Oracle
Amit Sagtani
Amit Sagtani (Software Developer KDE Community)

Open Source Enthusiast, Google Summer of Code'18 Student with KDE, Google Code-in Mentor 2018. An undergraduate engineering student, pursuing B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering.


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Amit Sagtani Software Developer KDE Community
Amod Narendra Narvekar
Amod Narendra Narvekar (Representative Mozilla)

I am a voluntary Open Source contributor to Mozilla. I have fixed bugs related to DOM and Core Module for firefox and developed personalized web applications. I have completed Masters in Computer Engineering and currently work as a Java/Php developer in a consulting firm. 


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Amod Narendra Narvekar Representative Mozilla
Anand S
Anand S (CEO Gramener)

Anand is a co-founder of Gramener, a data science company. He is ranked as one of India's top 10 data scientists, and leads a team who tell beautiful visual data stories.

He is a gold medalist at IIM Bangalore and an alumnus of IIT Madras, London Business School, IBM, Infosys, Lehman Brothers and BCG.


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Anand S CEO Gramener
Andrea Frittoli
Andrea Frittoli (Open Source Developer Advocate IBM)

Andrea Frittoli is a Developer Advocate at IBM and an open source enthusiast.He has contributed to OpenStack for several years, with focus in Quality Engineering and CI/CD, with the role of Project Technical Lead of the QA Program for one year. He's a strong advocate for transparency in open source. He likes working on IaaS projects as well as machine learning, trying to combines the two worlds.Before joining IBM he was QA Technical Lead at HP/HPE for the Helion Public Cloud and OpenStack Distribution. Earlier he worked as integration engineer and architect, delivering IT projects for Telcos for several years.


Sessions

Fri, 15th Mar Event Hall 2-2 (Hack Stage)

15:20 - 15:35 •  Call for Code

Fri, 15th Mar Event Hall 2-1

16:35 - 17:20 •  Machine Learning for CI

Sat, 16th Mar Event Hall 2-2 (Hack Stage)

11:00 - 11:55 •  IBM Cloud Hackathon Office Hours

Andrea Frittoli Open Source Developer Advocate IBM
Andrew Lee
Andrew Lee (Software Engineer Collabora)

Andrew Lee (Hualian, Taiwan) – an active Open Source Liaison focusing on the Debian and LXDE Projects. He worked on localization efforts of various kinds of local dialects and aborigines languages in Taiwan. He created various localization related packages in Red Hat, Mandrake, and Debian distros, and also creates and maintains packages in Debian for LXDE project.

Andrew Lee works as a software developer in the Build and Infrastructure team at Collabora and has 5 years of experience working with the Open Build Service(OBS) building both rpm and deb format packages and distribution creations for many different projects and clients. He is now making an efforts on packaging OBS in Debian distro.


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Andrew Lee Software Engineer Collabora
Anindyo Sarkar
Anindyo Sarkar (Cloud Expert IBM)

Working with big data at IBM.


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Anindyo Sarkar Cloud Expert IBM
Anjali Curic
Anjali Curic (CEO Sciencer)

A student/entrepreneur who loves experimenting, discovering and creating.


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Anjali Curic CEO Sciencer
Anshuman Verma
Anshuman Verma (Developer FOSSASIA)

Anshuman is a pre-final year undergrad. from IIIT Vadodara pursuing Computer Science. He is a full stack web developer specializing in JavaScript and is an active open source contributor.


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Anshuman Verma Developer FOSSASIA
Anton Babenko
Anton Babenko (Terraform AWS fanatic modules.tf)

Anton is a long time developer, CTO, and tech-lead who is spending a large amount of his time as an open-source contributor to various Terraform & AWS projects, terraform-aws-modules, modules.tf and a few others. The most popular one is where he manages a collection of verified Terraform AWS modules (terraform-aws-modules on GitHub) downloaded more than 2 million times. The newest one is where he describes Terraform best practices learned during several years of working with Terraform and established within the community (www.terraform-best-practices.com). He also leads AWS, DevOps and HashiCorp User Groups in Norway, organizes DevOpsDays Oslo, and often speaks at various technical meetups and conferences. He is passionate about all-things-cloud and solution architecture combined with automation and scripting.


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Anton Babenko Terraform AWS fanatic modules.tf
Anuj Deshpande
Anuj Deshpande (Embedded Systems Engineer Espressif Systems)

I am Anuj, and I work for Espressif Systems - the folks behind the ESP8266 and ESP32 chipsets. I work on different projects that help make it possible to build better consumer products faster - with firmware, phone apps, and cloud.

I -

- used to make interactive public installations https://mkrv.in

- was part of a team who crowdfunded a OSHW BLE dev board in '14 https://www.crowdsupply.com/revealing-hour-creations/tah,

- interned at Beagleboard in 2013 (as part of GSoC) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F0S5ajq-Ls 

I <3 OSHW, motorcycles, serverless functions, and movies.


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Anuj Deshpande Embedded Systems Engineer Espressif Systems
Anup Kumar
Anup Kumar (Big Data and Analytics Technical Leader IBM)

Anup Kumar is a Distinguished Information Architect (Open Group) at IBM Singapore with significant experience in deploying large distributed big data platforms and data warehouses across telco, banking, and other sectors. He also brings software lab development experience building Industry data models, search &amp; unstructured data analytics products. In current role, his major contribution is architecting modern analytical application leveraging Hadoop, spark &amp; open source stacks. Currently, he is championing a new &quot;architecture for modern Information Fabric&quot;. The architecture leverages advancement in technology such as HTAP and needs for real-time event-driven applications, data science &amp; deep machine learning in a hybrid cloud deployment model.


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Anup Kumar Big Data and Analytics Technical Leader IBM
Anup Kumar Panwar
Anup Kumar Panwar (Open Source Developer FOSSASIA)

I'm a GSoC 2018 graduate from FOSSASIA. I've mentored the GCI 2018 in the same organization.


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Anup Kumar Panwar Open Source Developer FOSSASIA
Aravind Putrevu
Aravind Putrevu (Developer Advocate Elastic)
TBD

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Aravind Putrevu Developer Advocate Elastic
Arihant Godha
Arihant Godha (Developer GitLab)

Arihant is a support engineer at GitLab with over 10 years of experience across full stack development, process automation and providing support to Enterprise customers including fortune 500 companies. In his free time, he likes to automate things, try experimenting with new technologies and collecting stamps.


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Sat, 16th Mar Event Hall 1-2 (Community Stage)

14:00 - 14:25 •  DevOps on Steroids

Arihant Godha Developer GitLab
Arundhati Gupta
Arundhati Gupta (Developer FOSSASIA)

Arundhati Gupta is a passionate developer who works mainly in the app and web development. She is an open source enthusiast and has been actively contributing to FOSSASIA. She shows great interest in getting involved with the open source communities and has always proactively taken steps to motivate women in tech. Apart from the technical stuff, she writes, sings and plays synthesizer.


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Arundhati Gupta Developer FOSSASIA
Astrid Mager
Astrid Mager (Postdoctoral researcher Institute of Technology Assessment (ITA))

Astrid Mager is a scholar in Science and Technology Studies with a particular interest in Internet technologies and socio-political developments. Her research is concerned with the Internet and society, search engine policies, algorithms and aspects of privacy, critical theory, as well as digital methods against the background of science and technology studies and technology assessment.


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Astrid Mager Postdoctoral researcher Institute of Technology Assessment (ITA)
Augustine Correa
Augustine Correa (CTO Hackerspace Mumbai)

Organizer of the largest OSS community fb.com/hackmum in Bombay and its longest running tech meetup (over 5 years) fb.com/mumtechup [#mumtechup] in Bombay

https://www.eventbrite.com/o/augustine-correa-3582300793

Docker Mumbai Community Leader

Kubernetes Mumbai, Hashicorp Mumbai & DCOS Mumbai meetup organizer

Meteor Mumbai captain

https://www.meetup.com/members/26318352/

Microsoft MVP 2018-19


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Fri, 15th Mar Event Hall 1-2 (Community Stage)

16:30 - 16:55 •  Secrets of our Housefull meetups

Augustine Correa CTO Hackerspace Mumbai
Aurélien Géron
Aurélien Géron (AI Expert Kiwisoft)

Aurélien Géron is the author of the best-selling book "Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow" (O'Reilly, 2017). A former Googler, he led YouTube's video classification team from 2013 to 2016. He also founded Wifirst, a leading Wireless ISP in France. Before this he worked as a software engineer in a variety of domains: healthcare, media & telecommunications, finance, defense, manufacturing and more. He recently moved to Singapore where he founded kiwisoft.io, a Machine Learning consulting & training firm.


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Aurélien Géron AI Expert Kiwisoft
Ayan Pahwa
Ayan Pahwa (Embedded Software Engineer Mentor-A Siemens Business)

Embedded software engineer, FPV Drone Racing Pilot, Tech Blogger, YouTube, Regular speaker.


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Ayan Pahwa Embedded Software Engineer Mentor-A Siemens Business
Balasubramanian Kandasamy
Balasubramanian Kandasamy (Senior Software Development Manager, MySQL Release Engineering Oracle)

Balasubramanian Kandasamy has been working as a Senior Software Development Manager in MySQL Release Engineering team at Oracle since 2012. He is responsible for Linux packaging and distribution of various MySQL products. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from the National Institute of Technology, Surat.


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Balasubramanian Kandasamy Senior Software Development Manager, MySQL Release Engineering Oracle
Bunnie Huang
Bunnie Huang (CTO Chibitronics)

Bunnie is best known for his work hacking the Microsoft Xbox, as well as for his efforts in designing and manufacturing open source hardware, including the chumby (app-playing alarm clock), chibitronics (teaching electronics through arts and crafts), and Novena (DIY laptop).


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Bunnie Huang CTO Chibitronics
Carol Chen
Carol Chen (Senior Community Architect Red Hat)

Carol Chen is a Community Architect at Red Hat, supporting several upstream communities such as Ansible and ManageIQ. She has been actively involved in open source communities while working for Jolla and Nokia previously. In addition, she also has experiences in software development/integration in her 12 years in the mobile industry. On a personal note, Carol plays the Timpani in an orchestra in Tampere, Finland, where she now calls home.


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Carol Chen Senior Community Architect Red Hat
Carsten Haitzler
Carsten Haitzler (Technical Director Arm Holdings)

Worked in the Linux and open source world industries for 20 years in several countries on all sides of the globe, has contributed to several open source projects and is best known for founding the Enlightenment window manager project and having written lots of graphics related code for X11. That's 20 years of programming mostly in C and assembly on top of Linux, shipping in 100+ million devices around the globe.


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Carsten Haitzler Technical Director Arm Holdings
Chaithra Gopalareddy
Chaithra Gopalareddy (Principal Software Developer Oracle)
Chaithra Gopalaredy has been working with MySQL database team since 2011. She is currently employed by Oracle, based in India, Bangalore. She is Principal Software Developer for the Optimizer Team of the MySQL database. She has a background in the database industry, working for Alcatel Lucent's DataBlitz main memory database in past.

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Chaithra Gopalareddy Principal Software Developer Oracle
Chathu Vishwajith
Chathu Vishwajith (Ambassador Auth0 Inc)

I'm a Co-Founder of a Startup where few of its products are powered by Full-stack JS. I'm an Auth0 Ambassador, Co-Organizer of Colombo JS Meetup and Organizer of Sri Lanka Unity Developers User Group. I have started working with NodeJS since 2012 and I love it. I Co-founded Colombo JS Meetup in 2013 and keep educating and having discussions about JS for almost four years now. Currently working on Full-stack POS app which has NodeJS backend to serve API and React Dashboard, Electron Desktop app with React Native Mobile app. 


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Chathu Vishwajith Ambassador Auth0 Inc
Chris Travers
Chris Travers (Head of Database Adjust GmbH)

Chris Travers has nearly three decades of IT and programming experience and has been around PostgreSQL for nearly two decades.  He heads the database team at Adjust GmbH, has contributed to the PostgreSQL core codebase, and helps out with database administration, design, extension, and scaling.


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Chris Travers Head of Database Adjust GmbH
Colin Charles
Colin Charles (Managing Consultant GrokOpen)
Colin is the Managing Consultant at GrokOpen. Previously, he was on the founding team of MariaDB Server, and has been around the MySQL ecosystem including being an early employee at MySQL, and worked actively on the Fedora and OpenOffice.org projects. Colin has been a MySQL user since 2000. He's well known within open source communities, enjoys building business and market entry in APAC and has spoken at many conferences.

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Colin Charles Managing Consultant GrokOpen
Daniel Maslowski
Daniel Maslowski (Software Engineer img.ly)

studied IT security and informatics, works as a web developer, writes packages for OS distros, tinkers with firmware


Sessions

Sat, 16th Mar Training room 2-2

15:45 - 16:30 •  Open Source Firmware

Daniel Maslowski Software Engineer img.ly
Darmadi Komo
Darmadi Komo (Data PMM Microsoft APAC)

n/a


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Sat, 16th Mar Lecture Theatre

16:15 - 16:40 •  Microsoft and Linux

Darmadi Komo Data PMM Microsoft APAC
Darren Evans
Darren Evans (Open Source Technical Solutions Professional, Microsoft Asia Microsoft)

Darren has over 20 years of experience working with open source across industries including consulting, finance, internet, scientific research and telecoms.

At Microsoft, he works with customers focusing on containers, Kubernetes, Linux, microservices, DevOps Tooling and open source software in general.


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Darren Evans Open Source Technical Solutions Professional, Microsoft Asia Microsoft
Davide Storti
Davide Storti (FOSS Programme Manager UNESCO)

Davide works as a FOSS Programme Manager at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. He leads the YouthMobile initiative, which aims at inspiring young girls and boys to drive technological innovation by acquiring the skills and confidence to code and develop mobile apps for sustainable development.


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Thu, 14th Mar Lecture Theatre

17:00 - 17:10 •  UNESCO and FOSS

Thu, 14th Mar Lecture Theatre

17:10 - 18:00 •  The Future Is FOSS!/?

Fri, 15th Mar Event Hall 2-2 (Hack Stage)

13:00 - 13:55 •  Year of Indigenous Languages

Sat, 16th Mar Event Hall 2-2 (Hack Stage)

10:30 - 11:30 •  UNESCO Office Hours

Sun, 17th Mar Lecture Theatre

15:00 - 16:25 •  Hackathon Presentations and Awards

Davide Storti FOSS Programme Manager UNESCO
Dieter Stubler
Dieter Stubler (Executive Director independIT Integrative Technolgies GmbH)

Born 1963 in Schrobenhausen Germany. Diploma in Computer Science at Fachhochschule Augsburg in 1987. Software Development at PCS GmbH in Munich, responsible for porting Oracle RDBMS Software to PCS CADMUS (Munix) Hardware. Developer, Trainer and Consultant for the Ingres RDBMS. Consulting and Traing in large scale RDBMS Projects as freelancer. Since 1997 founder and executive director of independIT Integrative Technologies GmbH. Focus on large Data Warehouse projects and IT Workload Automation since 2002 and deeply involved in the design and development of the schedulix Enterprise Job Scheduling System.


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Dieter Stubler Executive Director independIT Integrative Technolgies GmbH
Dilum Maduranga De Silva
Dilum Maduranga De Silva (GitHub Campus Expert GitHub)

Dilum De Silva is an open source enthusiast who studied at Royal College Colombo and currently he is reading a degree in software engineering at Informatics Institute of Technology. He is completing his third year as a trainee associate software engineer at Zone24x7 Inc. and also, He is a GitHub campus expert and mentor at JBos who’s interested in conducting tech talks in domains such as open-source contribution, IoT Development, Java,  WordPress, and mobile application development. Other than that, he loves volunteering.


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Dilum Maduranga De Silva GitHub Campus Expert GitHub
Divyanshu N Singh
Divyanshu N Singh (Full Stack Web Developer Fossasia)

I am a sophomore pursuing bachelors of technology in Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Patna. I am a full stack web developer and an iOS developer.


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Fri, 15th Mar Training room 2-1

15:30 - 15:55 •  SUSI AI Web Bot

Fri, 15th Mar Event Hall 2-2 (Hack Stage)

16:30 - 17:25 •  Create Your Own Voice Assistant with SUSI.AI

Divyanshu N Singh Full Stack Web Developer Fossasia
Dorn Bouttasing
Dorn Bouttasing (Founder Green Laos Community Volunteers)

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Dorn Bouttasing is the founder and director of Green Laos Community Volunteers, a not-for-profit community-based research group, and a freelance consultant working on community development and environment. Experience in research, surveys, training, and fact-finding. She is a self-taught, freelance filmmaker and community organizer working on preserving indigenous culture, language and women’s empowerment in remote areas of Laos since 2009.


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Fri, 15th Mar Event Hall 2-2 (Hack Stage)

13:00 - 13:55 •  Year of Indigenous Languages

Dorn Bouttasing Founder Green Laos Community Volunteers
Dr Koh Tat Suan
Dr Koh Tat Suan (Director Lifelong Learning Institute)

Dr Koh Tat Suan is the Director, Lifelong Learning. He oversees the management of the Lifelong Learning Institute and supports the Lifelong Learning Council to promote lifelong learning mindset among Singaporeans under the SkillsFuture. He has been a public service officer for nearly 38 years, of which 22 years serving the Singapore Armed Force; 3 years at the Ministry of Education; and currently serving the then Workforce Development Agency, and now SkillsFuture Singapore, since 2016. He is an Engineer by training. He completed his Bachelor in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the National University of Singapore, Masters in Education Management from University of Western Australia and Education Doctorate from Institute of Education, University of College London.


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Dr Koh Tat Suan Director Lifelong Learning Institute
Dr. Data Ng
Dr. Data Ng (CTO & Co-founder 42Lab)

Dr. Data Ng is an experimental Physicist, biohacker and hardware maker in Hong Kong.

Data founded the first biotech education and biotech equipment startup in Asia in 2016 - 42Lab which is a first portable and affordable biotech equipment for STEM Education which was incubated and invested by SGInnovate and Cyberport.

He obtained his Ph.D. in Semiconductor and Positron Physics and Biophysics and BSc. (Double majors: Physics and Finance; Minor: Astronomy) from the University of Hong Kong (HKU). Data studied User Experience (UX) design course from Bloc in 2014. Data is the associate member of Institute of Physics.


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Dr. Data Ng CTO & Co-founder 42Lab
Dr. Graham Williams
Dr. Graham Williams (Director of Data Science Director of Data Science, Microsoft)

Graham has been an open source developer since the 1980's, with early contributions to emacs, TeX, Debian, R, and is the developer of various Machine Learning toolkits. He remains a strong advocate for open source and is a practitioner, researcher, and educator in artificial intelligence. In his current role with Microsoft he leads a team of data scientists working with business to implement machine learning solutions and to drive open source product development. As Adjunct Professor/Fellow with ANU and UC in Canberra, Australia, he maintains an active role in research. He is the author of a number of books on machine learning and Mentor for AI Singapore. His open source software is used in teaching data science worldwide and for building solutions in business. He was previously Lead Data Scientist with the Australian Government.


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Dr. Graham Williams Director of Data Science Director of Data Science, Microsoft
Duane O'Brien
Duane O'Brien (Head of Open Source Indeed.com)

Duane O'Brien is the Head of Open Source at Indeed.com, the world's #1 jobs site. He is passionate about enabling smart and meaningful contributions to the open source ecosystem by both developers and corporations. Duane navigates the path between engineering and management, drawing on both his experience as a developer and program manager at companies such as Autodesk, Adobe, and PayPal, as well as his experience supporting Agile transformations.


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Duane O'Brien Head of Open Source Indeed.com
FOSSASIA Team
FOSSASIA Team (Team FOSSASIA)

The Summit 2019


Sessions

Thu, 14th Mar Lecture Theatre

10:40 - 11:00 •  Coffee Break

Thu, 14th Mar Lecture Theatre

12:25 - 12:30 •  The Summit 2019

Thu, 14th Mar Exhibition

12:30 - 13:30 •  Community Lunch

Thu, 14th Mar Lecture Theatre

15:20 - 15:40 •  Coffee Break

FOSSASIA Team Team FOSSASIA
Felipe Hoffa
Felipe Hoffa (Developer Advocate Google)

In 2011 Felipe Hoffa moved from Chile to San Francisco to join Google as a Software Engineer. Since 2013 he's been a Developer Advocate on big data - to inspire developers around the world to leverage the Google Cloud Platform tools to analyze and understand their data in ways they could never before. You can find him in several YouTube videos, blog posts, and conferences around the world.


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Felipe Hoffa Developer Advocate Google
Flik Fok
Flik Fok (Cloud Expert IBM)

Making cloud things usable for admins and developers.


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Flik Fok Cloud Expert IBM
François Cartegnie
François Cartegnie (Developer VideoLAN)

Joined VideoLAN in 2009 and became one of the main VLC developers.Working on demuxers and codecs (most media formats that goes in or out) side of VLC media player.Has an academical background in usability, wireless networks and owned his own web shopbot company.


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Fri, 15th Mar Theatre Lounge

12:10 - 12:35 •  VLC 4.0

François Cartegnie Developer VideoLAN
G. Matthew Rice
G. Matthew Rice (Executive Director Linux Professional Institute)

Matthew is a technical and management lead in the development of the world class Linux Professional certification program of LPI. He works at a technical level with a team of international Subject Matter Experts.


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G. Matthew Rice Executive Director Linux Professional Institute
Gerry Demaret
Gerry Demaret (Organizer FOSDEM)

Gerry is a system and network administrator by day, and a conference organizer by night. He is one of the main organizers of FOSDEM, the largest free and open source conference in Europe. He has been involved with the organisation of the event since 2005. He currently serves as the director of the not-for-profit behind the conference, and wears may other hats within the FOSDEM team. 


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Sun, 17th Mar Lecture Theatre

11:15 - 12:05 •  FOSS Around the World

Gerry Demaret Organizer FOSDEM
Gi Soong Chee
Gi Soong Chee (Teacher Dunman High School)

Mr. Gi is a teacher at Dunman High School in Singapore.


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Gi Soong Chee Teacher Dunman High School
Graham Dumpleton
Graham Dumpleton (Developer Evangelist Red Hat)

TBA


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Graham Dumpleton Developer Evangelist Red Hat
Guruswamy Revana
Guruswamy Revana (Associate Professor BVRIT HYDERABAD College of Engineering)

Mr.Guruswamy Revana is an academician with around 16 years of experience.  I had been into this journey with Teaching, Research and Development, Mentoring, Counseling, Administration etc. Basically I am Electrical Engineer, my areas of expertise includes Renewable Energy Sources, Power Electronics, Electric drives. He is also interested in Assistive Technologies wherein Open source technologies are used to aid differently-abled. 


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Guruswamy Revana Associate Professor BVRIT HYDERABAD College of Engineering
Hamish Coleman
Hamish Coleman (Member Dim Sum Labs)

Hamish has always liked to bend hardware to his will, which led to a career as a Sys Admin and means that he is always trying to understand what is inside the black box.His quest to make computers do his bidding (and not theirs) has continued to drive his tinkering with software and hardware at home and at work.  He believes in empowering others to also bend technology along with him!Hamish currently lives in Hong Kong - tiny living with his many tiny computers.


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Hamish Coleman Member Dim Sum Labs
Harin Nalin Vadodaria
Harin Nalin Vadodaria (Principal MTS Oracle India Private Limited)

I am working as Principal MTS with MySQL engineering team for the past seven years. My focus is on security features of MySQL server and client.


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Harin Nalin Vadodaria Principal MTS Oracle India Private Limited
Harish Pillay
Harish Pillay (Community Architecture and Leadership Red Hat)

Harish Pillay serves as Head of Community Architecture and Leadership at Red Hat, Inc. and served as its Chief Technology Architect of South Asia since September 29, 2003. Harish co-founded the Linux Users' Group Singapore in 1993. He served as President of the Internet Society Singapore Chapter from 2013 to 2015. He has been a Trustee of Internet Society since June 18, 2016. He is a senior member of the Singapore Computer Society and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. 


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Harish Pillay Community Architecture and Leadership Red Hat
Harshil Agrawal
Harshil Agrawal (GitHub Campus Expert Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Institute of Technology, Vasad)

Harshil Agrawal is a GitHub Campus Expert for Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Institute of Technology, Vasad, a web and mobile developer and an open source enthusiast. He likes to spread knowledge and help others.


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Harshil Agrawal GitHub Campus Expert Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Institute of Technology, Vasad
Harshit Dwivedi
Harshit Dwivedi (Android Developer CodingBlocks)

Android Developer and an avid tech blogger, Harshit is passionate about anything and everything related to android. He is one of the first Google certified Android developers in India and being an Open Source enthusiast, he’s also a part of various programs like Google Summer of Code and Google Code In as a Mentor. 

Harshit is working with Udacity and Coding Blocks, a startup in New Delhi focusing on creating more employable talent.


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Harshit Dwivedi Android Developer CodingBlocks
Hong Phuc
Hong Phuc (Founder FOSSASIA)

Hong Phuc Dang co-founded FOSSASIA in 2009 as a community devoted to improving people’s lives through sharing Open Technologies and knowledge and fostering global connections. She especially wanted to encourage developers from Asia to participate in the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement.


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Hong Phuc Founder FOSSASIA
Huzaifa Sidhpurwala
Huzaifa Sidhpurwala (Principal Product Security Engineer Red Hat)
Principal Product Security Engineer at Red Hat, Working with multiple open source projects as part of its security team, fedora and open source contributor for many years.

Sessions

Sat, 16th Mar Training room 9-2/9-3

13:30 - 13:55 •  Attacking Email encryption

Huzaifa Sidhpurwala Principal Product Security Engineer Red Hat
Ilya Verbitskiy
Ilya Verbitskiy (Partner WebStoating s.r.o)

As a software engineer and software development manager in finance and e-commerce sectors, Ilya gained more than 10 years of experience in leading the development of complex software in teams, large and small. Before starting his own business, he worked in Europe and North America for several multinational companies.

Ilya Verbitskiy is the founder of WebStoating s.r.o., an agency helping companies to create a successful online business. Outside of work, he's a husband and father and enjoys sports, games and learning everything about everything.


Sessions

Sat, 16th Mar Training room 9-2/9-3

15:40 - 16:05 •  Secure your React app

Ilya Verbitskiy Partner WebStoating s.r.o
Isham Mohamed MI
Isham Mohamed MI (Software Developer Kloudynet Technologies Sdn Bhd, Malaysia)

Originally from Colombo Sri Lanka, where I got graduated in 2015, having BSc in Computing and Information Systems. I worked as a Software Engineer for a well known ERP software vendor, IFS from Q2 2015 to Q3 2018 in both their Business Intelligence and IoT offering. In September 2018, I have moved to Malaysia and joined my current company, working as a Software Developer for Intelligent apps.


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Isham Mohamed MI Software Developer Kloudynet Technologies Sdn Bhd, Malaysia
Jason Zaman
Jason Zaman (Developer Gentoo Linux)

Jason Zaman is a Gentoo Linux developer and maintains the SELinux policies and userspace libraries. He is also an upstream maintainer on the SELinuxProject and Community Lead on TensorFlow's SIG-Build.


Sessions

Sat, 16th Mar Training room 9-2/9-3

14:00 - 14:45 •  SELinux System Administration

Jason Zaman Developer Gentoo Linux
Jean F. Queralt
Jean F. Queralt (Founder & CEO The IO Foundation)

For a long while now, Jean has been constantly disturbed by the level of intrusion information and communication technologies have in businesses and personal lives of people. 

Born in Spain and with a full career in IT, he eventually realized he was deeply linked to Asia and moved to Malaysia in 2012 where he started volunteering full time for a number of organizations in both Malaysia and the Philippines.

Supporting their IT needs became his personal action to be able to provide some levels of protection and ensure data ownership of citizens, especially those who have less access to knowledge.

In 2018, he took the leap of founding The IO Foundation and to establish a more solid and targeted direction to address Digital Rights of users. Jean believes that it will take no time that we, ourselves, become digital citizens; if we are not there already. TIOF intends to work with pertinent regional and international agencies in crafting and implementing a Universal Declaration of Digital Rights (UDDR) which aims to be grounded from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Long shot or not, he strongly believes it is a much needed step into the future.


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Jean F. Queralt Founder & CEO The IO Foundation
Jens Petersen
Jens Petersen (Engineering manager Red Hat)

Jens works at Red Hat on i18n engineering. He contributes to the Fedora and Haskell communities. Last year at Fossasia he gave a talk on the Four Temperaments.


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Jens Petersen Engineering manager Red Hat
Jens Wilke
Jens Wilke (General Manager headissue GmbH)

A coding veteran and part time entrepreneur. Since 2000 he architects, builds and runs Java based eCommerce applications. Jens is fanatic about performance. For Jens improving application performance is the key to reduce latency and provide a great User Experience. On the other hand, as Agile Coach and Scrum Master Jens also likes to improve the performance and happiness of development teams.


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Jens Wilke General Manager headissue GmbH
Jerome Nilmeier
Jerome Nilmeier (Data Scientist/Developer Advocate at IBM IBM)

Jason Zaman is a Gentoo Linux developer and maintains the SELinux policies and userspace libraries. He is also an upstream maintainer on the SELinuxProject and Community Lead on TensorFlow's SIG-Build.


Sessions

Sat, 16th Mar Event Hall 2-2 (Hack Stage)

11:00 - 11:55 •  IBM Cloud Hackathon Office Hours

Jerome Nilmeier Data Scientist/Developer Advocate at IBM IBM
Jogendra Kumar
Jogendra Kumar (iOS Developer, Open Source Contributor FOSSASIA)

Jogendra is pre-final year student at IIT (BHU) Varanasi. He is an iOS Developer and active Open Source contributor. He also has experience in developing Android, Web and Windows Apps. Currently, he is working on Machine Learning and Blockchain technology. Apart from Coding, he loves going hackathons, attending conferences, and Travelling.


Sessions

Jogendra Kumar iOS Developer, Open Source Contributor FOSSASIA
Jollen Chen
Jollen Chen (Founder & CEO Flowchain Foundation)

Jollen Chen is the creator and lead developer of Flowchain, an open source based IoT blockchain solutions. Before Flowchain, he has been working on embedded software and full-stack web development for many years. His research interests are the Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and IoT data security. Jollen holds a Master's degree in Manufacturing Information and Systems from the National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. You can find him online at http://jollen.org.


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Jollen Chen Founder & CEO Flowchain Foundation
Jonas von Malottki
Jonas von Malottki (Senior Manager Finance Daimler)

Jonas is shaping the Blockchain and DLT activities from the technology perspective within Daimler. He holds a Diploma in Computer Science and Japanese Studies from University of Bonn. Main focus topics were Metadata and Data Quality as well as Neural Networks. He is a member of the Governing Board of Hyperledger.


Sessions

Thu, 14th Mar Lecture Theatre

17:10 - 18:00 •  The Future Is FOSS!/?

Jonas von Malottki Senior Manager Finance Daimler
Jonathan Le Lous
Jonathan Le Lous (Field CTO Capgemini)

Jonathan is Field CTO, Cloud Infrastructure Services team, @ Capgemini. He helps French Fortune 40 (CAC 40) companies implementing Cloud-native Open Source technologies as Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, OpenStack... Previously he was Director of Engineering Engagement and Release Platforms at Manulife/John Hancock in Canada. For 15 years, Jonathan has been passionate open source technologies. As a pragmatic leader he is used to work with partners and technologies from everywhere (Microsoft, Red Hat, IBM, Cisco...) and build bridges between traditional IT and new approaches. As a community member he's been engaged in different non-profit communities to contribute and promote open source and help users.


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Jonathan Le Lous Field CTO Capgemini
Jorge Morales
Jorge Morales (Developer Advocate Red Hat)

Jorge is an OpenShift Developer advocate. He has huge experience on DevOps and he's a fanatical Java developer. He helps developers understand the benefits of a Platform-as-a-Service and customers while also helps Red Hat to improve the product based on their experience. He's old enough to have other hobbies than his family for his occasional spare time.


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Jorge Morales Developer Advocate Red Hat
João Gonçalo Bilhim
João Gonçalo Bilhim (Solution Sales Manager Microsoft)

Joao Bilhim does Cloud stuff with Azure Kubernetes Services.


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João Gonçalo Bilhim Solution Sales Manager Microsoft
Kitman Cheung
Kitman Cheung (Chief Technology Officer, IBM Data & AI , Asia Pacific IBM)

Kitman Cheung is the CTO, IBM Data & AI for IBM Asia Pacific. Throughout his 17 year career with IBM, Kitman has focused his attention on analytics related technologies, and has served in many technical roles within development, product management, partner ecosystem and technical pre-sales organizations. In his current role, his responsibilities include working with key IBM customers in various industry segments to transform their information infrastructure for the Big Data and Analytics era.

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Kitman Cheung Chief Technology Officer, IBM Data & AI , Asia Pacific IBM
Kogi Oberoi
Kogi Oberoi (Engineer Mechanical)

B K Oberoi, also known as Kogi, received his Batchelor of Science (1st Class Hons) from Manchester University. His industrial career spanned 40 years during which he accumulated vast experience working as a 'hands-on' Mechanical Engineer. He worked in various industries and countries whilst based in the UK. He attributes his success to a 'Professional Tool Kit' which he assembled as his career progresssed. Born in Kenya, Kogi completed his school education there. He obtined his first degree from Birla Institute of Technology and Sceince, India.


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Kogi Oberoi Engineer Mechanical
Kumar Rishav
Kumar Rishav (Software Engineer PayPal)

Kumar Rishav sees himself as an enthusiastic software developer, specializing in web application architectures, build tools, and product development.

He is a Software engineer at PayPal, working out of Chennai, India, on the Web engineering platform team, where he works on the Nodejs application and Docker. You can find him giving talks internally at PayPal and in various meetups. He has been an open source contributor to Mozilla Firefox OS project.


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Kumar Rishav Software Engineer PayPal
Lim Tit Meng
Lim Tit Meng (CEO Science Centre Singapore)

As the CEO of Science Centre and Vice Dean of NUS Mr Lim Tit Meng promotes STEM as an engine for knowledge-based innovation economy; engages stake holders to share the mission and champions creative science communication. His goal is to inspire youth to see STEM as a powerful means to create their own future as well as solutions for the future.


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Lim Tit Meng CEO Science Centre Singapore
Madhushanka Padmal
Madhushanka Padmal (Software/Hardware Developer PSLab)

Padmal is a open source hardware designer with amazing skills in software development. He is an active contributor to PSLab project by FOSSASIA for quiet some time and working towards making the project great. Currently he works parallel on NeuroLab project!

He's an undergraduate from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka; following a degree in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering.


Sessions

Sat, 16th Mar Training room 2-2

09:30 - 10:00 •  Open Hardware Breakfast

Sat, 16th Mar Training room 2-2

10:40 - 10:55 •  Pocket Science Lab

Sun, 17th Mar Event Hall 1-2 (Community Stage)

09:00 - 10:00 •  Ask Me Anything (and breakfast)

Madhushanka Padmal Software/Hardware Developer PSLab
Manuel Riel
Manuel Riel (Founder iViveLabs Ltd.)

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Manuel Riel Founder iViveLabs Ltd.
Marian Marinov
Marian Marinov (Head System Architect SiteGround)

Marian is a system administrator by heart. He is working with Linux for almost 20 years. Currently he is Head System Architect of Siteground.com. He is a big fan of FOSS and regularly speaks at different FOSS conferences around the world. Marian also helps with the organization of OpenFest - Bulgaria's biggest FOSS conferences. In his spare time he teaches Linux system administration and Network security courses in Sofia University and SoftUni.


Sessions

Thu, 14th Mar Lecture Theatre

17:10 - 18:00 •  The Future Is FOSS!/?

Marian Marinov Head System Architect SiteGround
Mario Behling
Mario Behling (CEO OpnTec)

Mario Behling is the CEO of OpnTec. He is a technologist with 15 years of experience in leading international development teams in Europe, Asia and India. He helped to get FOSSASIA started and works with the community on SUSI.AI and Open Hardware solutions like Pocket Science Lab. Mario also steers the development of the eventyay project. He is fascinated about drums and global music and has an interest in architecture. In Vietnam he designed and build a seven storey eco-hotel and in Afghanistan he setup mesh networks in Afghan schools.


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Mario Behling CEO OpnTec
Martin Bähr
Martin Bähr (Founder Beijing LUG)
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Martin Bähr Founder Beijing LUG
Martin Michlmayr
Martin Michlmayr (Developer Debian)

Martin Michlmayr is a free and open-source software advocate and Debian developer, currently president of Software in the Public Interest. Michlmayr was elected as Debian Project Leader in 2003. He contributed to Debian's New Member process, participating in the recruitment of over 120 new members. Michlmayr completed a doctorate in technology management at the University of Cambridge in 2007. The focus of this research was on quality improvement in free software and open source projects, and particularly on release management processes and practices. In 2013, O'Reilly awarded an open source award to Michlmayr, putting him in "the 'unsung heroes' category—the people who devote themselves to the important but not always glorious jobs that keep open source healthy". Between 2008 and 2014 Michlmayr served on the board of directors of the Open Source Initiative, acting as the organization's secretary.


Sessions

Martin Michlmayr Developer Debian
Masafumi Ohta
Masafumi Ohta (Lead Contributor Raspberry Pi Foundation)
Masafumi is leading Raspberry Pi community in Japan and volunteering Raspberry Pi Foundation from farthest east country, Japan. He has helping their business and encourage Raspberry Pi related projects with Raspberry Pi Foundation. Masafumi has elected ARM INNOVATOR by ARM+Hackster.io because of his vivid activities with Raspberry Pi in Japan.Masafumi has also been contributing many other OpenSource projects, He has elected Active User Contributor for OpenStack Foundation because of his project at a big-name automotive company in Japan and he also organizes CLSx Tokyo to discuss community leadership and issue.Masafumi lately has started collaboration with ASUS to enhance their Tinkerboard using original Rockchip kernel on it https://github.com/masafumiohta/kernel/blob/release-4.4/README-tinkerboard

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Masafumi Ohta Lead Contributor Raspberry Pi Foundation
Masashi Hamahira
Masashi Hamahira (Senior Manager SQUARE ENIX CO,. LTD.)

When I was a child, I was playing many games from SQUARE ENIX, and I wanted to work at this company.

I join Fujitsu as a new graduate, and now I’m working at SQUARE ENIX.


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Masashi Hamahira Senior Manager SQUARE ENIX CO,. LTD.
Masayuki Igawa
Masayuki Igawa (Senior Software Engineer SUSE)

Masayuki Igawa is a software engineer for over 20 years on a wide range of software projects, and developing open source software related to Linux kernel and virtualization. He's been an active technical contributor to OpenStack since the Grizzly release. He is a core member of some OpenStack QA projects such as Tempest, subunit2sql, openstack-health and stackviz. He currently works for SUSE to make Upstream OpenStack better for everyone and downstream. He has previously been a speaker at OpenStack Summits, LinuxCons Japan and the other open source related conference events.


Sessions

Masayuki Igawa Senior Software Engineer SUSE
Mashrin Srivastava
Mashrin Srivastava (Deep Learning Engineer Intel)

Mashrin Srivastava works as a Deep learning Engineer with the innovation group (Ideas2Reality) at Intel, specializing on Intel platforms and products and has worked on projects in Data Science/ IoT space including connected healthcare, homes, smart city, mobility and edge AI. He has exhibited his contributions and represented Intel at several conferences.He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Vellore Institute of Technology. He is passionate about data science, algorithms and graph and the use of the technology to bring disruptive changes. He has served as a contributor and Directly Responsible Individual to the Stanford Scholar Initiative and open source contributor to Processing Foundation.


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Mashrin Srivastava Deep Learning Engineer Intel
Mathura Bikash Tripura
Mathura Bikash Tripura (Executive Director Zabarang)

Mathura Bikash Tripura is the Executive Director of Zabarang (a local NGO in CHT, Bangladesh). Currently he is leading a group of young professionals in carrying out different programs on the issues of community empowerment, quality education, good governance and sustainable development, as well as support to mother tongue-based multilingual education.

Mr. Tripura has a long experience working with indigenous peoples’ organizations and the government as well as in various civic movements at national level. He is the National Convener of the Committee on Celebrating 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages, Bangladesh.


Sessions

Fri, 15th Mar Event Hall 2-2 (Hack Stage)

13:00 - 13:55 •  Year of Indigenous Languages

Sat, 16th Mar Event Hall 2-2 (Hack Stage)

10:30 - 11:30 •  UNESCO Office Hours

Sun, 17th Mar Lecture Theatre

15:00 - 16:25 •  Hackathon Presentations and Awards

Mathura Bikash Tripura Executive Director Zabarang
Matt Ware
Matt Ware (Head of Operations First)

Matt Ware's been around digital a long time; back before the Y2K bug was even a thing. Prior to becoming Head of Operations at First, Matt helped realise the value of digital at Sensis, News Ltd, Reed Business Information and Dynamic Creative.

Over the last 20 years Matt has worked in the fields of SEO, Performance Media, Social, Mobile and CRO with a specific focus on how to improve Customer Experience and Engagement using Data and Analytics.

Most recently Matt has started to explore the value of AI, Machine Learning and how Voice enabled devices can be used to interact with customers in real time to answer their questions and needs. 

Some of the clients Matt has worked with include: Kmart, Target, Officeworks, Flight Centre, Fairfax Digital, TradeMe, BigW, Fiji Airways, UNSW, Dymocks, Grays Online, TAB and Qantas to name just a few.

Matt's relentless pursuit to know his clients and their competitors inside and out places him in a unique position to bring vital insight to First's clients. 


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Matt Ware Head of Operations First
Matthew Treinish
Matthew Treinish (Senior Software Engineer IBM Research)

Matthew has been working on and contributing to Open Source software for most of his career. Matthew currently works for IBM Research developing open source software for quantum computing. He is also a long time OpenStack contributor and a former member of the OpenStack TC (Technical Committee) and was previously the PTL (project technical lead) of the OpenStack community's QA program. He has previously been a speaker at linux.conf.au, OpenStack summits, LinuxCons Japan, China, and North America, Open Source Summit Europe, SeaGL, OpenWest, and FOSSASIA.


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Matthew Treinish Senior Software Engineer IBM Research
Mayank Prasad
Mayank Prasad (Principal Member Technical Staff Oracle)

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Mayank Prasad Principal Member Technical Staff Oracle
Melvin Zhang
Melvin Zhang (Maintainer MagArena)

Melvin is an avid programmer who enjoys designing and implementing novel algorithms.  As the CTO of Cosmiqo, Melvin is in charge of developing its sensor data aggregation and analytics platform. In

his spare time, Melvin works on the AI for MagArena, an open source card game project. Melvin received his B. Comp (Hons) and Ph.D. degrees from NUS School of Computing.


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Melvin Zhang Maintainer MagArena
Mete Atamel
Mete Atamel (Developer Advocate Google)

Mete is a Developer Advocate at Google, focused on helping developers with Google Cloud. As a long-time Java and C# developer, he likes to compare the two ecosystems. Prior to Google, he worked at Microsoft, Skype, Adobe, EMC, and Nokia building apps and services on various web, mobile and cloud platforms. Originally from the island of Cyprus, he currently lives in Greenwich of London, not too far away from the prime meridian.


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Mete Atamel Developer Advocate Google
Michael Bright
Michael Bright (Trainer, Consultant @mjbright Consulting)

Michael is an independent trainer/consultant on Cloud Native (Docker, Kubernetes, Micro-services, Serverless, Unikernels) with more than 30 years of experience in IT and Telecom as Researcher, Developer, pre-sales and Delivery consultant, Developer Advocate.


Sessions

Michael Bright Trainer, Consultant @mjbright Consulting
Michael Cannon
Michael Cannon (Chief Success Officer Axelerant)

Adventurous water-rat, Peichi's happy man, Chief Success Officer @Axelerant, Drusus & Jace's baba, whole-self enabler, ex-bomb squad, and million-mile traveler


Sessions

Sat, 16th Mar Event Hall 1-2 (Community Stage)

12:00 - 12:10 •  Community Photo 2019

Sun, 17th Mar Lecture Theatre

13:20 - 13:45 •  Let Customer Experience Define Your Business

Michael Cannon Chief Success Officer Axelerant
Michael Cheng
Michael Cheng (Licensing & Open Source Legal Facebook)
Lawyer. Raspberry Pi/GPIO Fanatic. Currently supporting open source program office at Facebook. Former IT sysadmin, investment banker and high school dropout. Born in Taiwan. Currently based in the US. Spent 10+ years in China, Thailand, Japan, Myanmar and Hong Kong.

Sessions

Michael Cheng Licensing & Open Source Legal Facebook
Michael Christen
Michael Christen (Founder Founder, SUSI.AI)

Michael is the founder of SUSI AI, loklak and, the creator of the Peer-to-Peer Search engine YaCy. He is a Big Data Engineer consulting for some of the largest corporate players in Germany on search engine technology and digital transformation strategies. He is also the architect of the German Digital Library search portal.


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Michael Christen Founder Founder, SUSI.AI
Michael Downey
Michael Downey (Director of Community United Nations Foundation)

Michael Downey is the Director of Community for the Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) Open Source Center, an initiative of the United Nations Foundation. The Center is a collaborative community promoting knowledge sharing, collaboration, and co-investment in technology and human capacity to support positive social change in FOSS communities around the world.


Sessions

Thu, 14th Mar Lecture Theatre

17:10 - 18:00 •  The Future Is FOSS!/?

Michael Downey Director of Community United Nations Foundation
Michael Ducy
Michael Ducy (Director of Open Source Sysdig)

Michael Ducy currently works as Director of Community & Evangelism for Sysdig where he is responsible for growing adoption of Sysdig’s open source solutions. Previously, Michael worked at Chef where we held a variety of roles helping customers and community members leverage Chef’s open source and paid solutions, as well as implement the ideas and practices of DevOps. Michael has also worked in a variety of roles in his career including Cloud Architecture, Systems Engineering, and Performance Engineering. Michael holds a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Chicago and an MBA from The Ohio State University.


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Michael Ducy Director of Open Source Sysdig
Michal Cichra
Michal Cichra (Principal Software Engineer Red Hat)

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Michal Cichra Principal Software Engineer Red Hat
Milindu Kumarage
Milindu Kumarage (Software Engineer Sysco Labs)

I'm a Google Developer Expert for Google Cloud Platform and working as a Full-Stack Senior Software Engineer at Sysco Labs which is the software are of Sysco Foods the largest food delivery company in USA. I have a lot of experience in both AWS an Google Cloud Platform and related tools like Kubernetes, Dockers, etc. I'm an Org Admin of SCoRe for both Google Summer of Code and Google Code-In. I'm a manager of GDG Sri Lanka and Google Cloud Developer Community Sri Lanka.


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Milindu Kumarage Software Engineer Sysco Labs
Misako Ito
Misako Ito (Programme Specialist UNESCO)

Misako Ito works as Advisor for Communication and Information at UNESCO Regional Office in Bangkok. She is responsible for UNESCO’s Communication and Information programme in the Mekong countries and coordinates the UNESCO Memory of the World programme for safeguarding the documentary heritage in Asia and the Pacific. Before joining Bangkok, she spent six years at UNESCO Office in Rabat, Morocco, in providing advisory services for media development, its legislation on freedom of information as well as for the media and information literacy policies in Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania and Tunisia.


Sessions

Fri, 15th Mar Event Hall 2-2 (Hack Stage)

13:00 - 13:55 •  Year of Indigenous Languages

Fri, 15th Mar Event Hall 2-2 (Hack Stage)

15:00 - 15:10 •  Hackathon Opening

Sat, 16th Mar Event Hall 2-2 (Hack Stage)

10:30 - 11:30 •  UNESCO Office Hours

Sun, 17th Mar Lecture Theatre

15:00 - 16:25 •  Hackathon Presentations and Awards

Misako Ito Programme Specialist UNESCO
Mishari Muqbil
Mishari Muqbil (Founder Zymple.biz)

Mishari is based in Thailand where he runs his company. He is participating in the Open Source community since 1990s. He is also a homeschool dad.


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Mishari Muqbil Founder Zymple.biz
Mitch Altman
Mitch Altman (CEO Open Hardware Creator)

Mitch Altman is a San Francisco-based hacker and inventor, best known for inventing TV-B-Gone, as featured speaker at hacker conferences, as international expert on the hackerspace movement, and for teaching introductory electronics workshops. He is also Chief Scientist and CEO of Cornfield Electronics.


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Mitch Altman CEO Open Hardware Creator
Mohammed A. Imran
Mohammed A. Imran (Founder and CTO Practical DevSecOps - Eracorp)

Imran “secfigo” Mohammed is a seasoned security professional with 8 years of experience in helping organizations with their Information Security Programs. He has a diverse background in R&D, consulting and product-based industries with a passion to solve complex security programs. Imran is the founder of Null Singapore, the largest information security community in Singapore where he has organized more than 60 events & workshops to spread security awareness. He was also nominated as community star for being the go-to person in the community whose contribution and knowledge sharing has helped many professionals in the security industry.


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Mohammed A. Imran Founder and CTO Practical DevSecOps - Eracorp
Mohit Kumar
Mohit Kumar (Developer FOSSASIA)

Mohit Kumar is a final year undergrad pursuing Computer Engineering from Delhi Technological University(DTU) formerly Delhi College of Engineering(DCE). Mohit is an avid open source enthusiast, a programmer and an android developer. He has knowledge in different areas namely Operating Systems, Database Management Systems, Algorithms, Digital Image Processing, Distributed Systems and Cryptography.


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Mohit Kumar Developer FOSSASIA
Narendra Chauhan
Narendra Chauhan (Principal Member Technical Staff Oracle)

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Narendra Chauhan Principal Member Technical Staff Oracle
Ng Meng Cher
Ng Meng Cher (Cloud Expert IBM)

Sharing how the cloud works at IBM.


Sessions

Ng Meng Cher Cloud Expert IBM
Nguyễn Hồng Quân
Nguyễn Hồng Quân (CTO AgriConnect)

- FOSS enthusiast

- IoT in Agriculture


Sessions

Nguyễn Hồng Quân CTO AgriConnect
Nicole Chua
Nicole Chua (Cloud Expert IBM)

Working on making the cloud work.


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Nicole Chua Cloud Expert IBM
Nikesh Balami
Nikesh Balami (Chief Executive Officer Open Knowledge Nepal)

I am the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Open Knowledge Nepal, a non-profit civic tech organization comprised of openness aficionados, and program coordinator of Code for Nepal. I also serve as an executive member of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Nepal Community, a pioneer organization who has been leading the open source momentum in Nepal in the last 8 years through events, projects, campaigns, and lobbying. I recently co-founded Artificial Intelligence for Development, a not-for-profit organization established to promote research and development in Artificial Intelligence in Nepal to tackle local and community-based problems and provide solutions using AI technology. More information about my affiliation can be found on my website: http://www.neekes.com.np


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Nikesh Balami Chief Executive Officer Open Knowledge Nepal
Nisha Gopalakrishnan
Nisha Gopalakrishnan (Principal Member of Technical Staff Oracle India Pvt Ltd)

Nisha Gopalakrishnan has been working as a system software developer for over 10 years and of which 7 years has been with MySQL, Oracle based out of Bangalore, India. She has been involved in sustaining and development efforts of the MySQL server for the last seven years. Prior to Oracle, she was working with Cisco for their network suite of products and with Wipro on platformsecurity.


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Nisha Gopalakrishnan Principal Member of Technical Staff Oracle India Pvt Ltd
Norbert Preining
Norbert Preining (Developer TeX Live Team, FOSSASIA)

Mathematician and Logician by education who after working at various universities (TU Wien, Universita di SIena, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) is now working in the Research and Development lab of Accelia, Inc, Tokyo. His core interests are mathematical logic, computer science, machine learning, AI, security, software verification and specification. He got involved with TeX Live around 2003. In 2005 he packaged for the first time TeX Live for Debian (up to that time all distributions used teTeX).

Over the years Norbert became involved in TeX Live development, and after rewriting the whole TeX Live infrastructure in Perl, and providing the TeX Live Manager for online updates, he is now the responsible maintainer for most of the core support programs of TeX Live.

Since some years Norbert is also member of the board of directors of the international TeX User Group.


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Norbert Preining Developer TeX Live Team, FOSSASIA
Omprakash Kasaraboina
Omprakash Kasaraboina (Director ScaledV Consultancy Pte. Ltd.)

Omprakash is a Director at "ScaledV Consultancy Pte. Ltd.":https://www.scaledv.com, Singapore. He is a *Certified SAFe® 4 Program Consultant* (SPC), *Lean Six Sigma Black Belt* (BB) and *Project Management Professional* (PMP) with experience across Business Transformation, Agile Software Development, Lean Six Sigma Implementation, Reengineering, Project Management, Coaching and Trainings in domains like Healthcare, Energy Management and Embedded Systems.

His expertise lies in helping clients achieve Enterprise Agility through Agile Adoption Consultation, Process Definition, Training and Coaching of Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Development Team.

He is instrumental in transitioning and transforming organisation _process_ and _practices_ to create an ecosystem that can help achieve Enterprise Agility. 


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Omprakash Kasaraboina Director ScaledV Consultancy Pte. Ltd.
Ong Khai Wei
Ong Khai Wei (Cloud Solution Specialist IBM)

Khai Wei focuses on helping both start-ups and enterprise in technical solution architect and design of applications towards cloud via IBM Cloud platform across multiple technologies - Blockchain, Kubernetes, DevOps and so on. With his years of experience in software development and solution architecture, Khai Wei leverages past experiences to support enterprises in adopting open source technology such as Hyperledger Fabric and maximize what the technology can benefits in long term towards the industry. Before joining IBM, Khai Wei has worked as application developer in Malaysia. He joined IBM as Technical Specialist in Malaysia at year 2008, transitioned to Singapore in year 2013 to better support ASEAN Region.


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Ong Khai Wei Cloud Solution Specialist IBM
Oranee Jariyapotngam
Oranee Jariyapotngam (Indigenous Languages UNESCO Expert)

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Oranee works as a project coordinator for the Foundation for Applied Linguistics (FAL). FAL supports the education of indigenous children in Thailand by promoting the use of the indigenous language in school along with the national language. This is known as ‘Mother Tongue Based Multilingual Education (MTBMLE)’.


Sessions

Fri, 15th Mar Event Hall 2-2 (Hack Stage)

13:00 - 13:55 •  Year of Indigenous Languages

Oranee Jariyapotngam Indigenous Languages UNESCO Expert
Owais Zahid
Owais Zahid (Software Development Manager Autodesk)

Owais Zahid works @ Autodesk as a Software Development Manager. He is a certified Scrum Professional and focuses on team’s technical direction and agile transformation.

He has over 12 years of software development experience into the areas of web/mobile development, server-side programming, Agile/Scrum, and Project Management. He holds an MS in Computer Science with majors in Project Management.

Owais is a frequent contributor to various open source projects and engineering blogs. He is also an active member of the Singapore Tech community and has presented at various conferences.


Sessions

Owais Zahid Software Development Manager Autodesk
Parag Nemade
Parag Nemade (Senior Software Engineer Red Hat)

Parag Nemade is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat. Parag has 12 years of experience in Open Source and Linux. He has worked on developing open source softwares related to Internationalization. He is an active contributor to Fedora project, helped in improving Fedora packaging, testing Fedora updates.

He has been working since many years helping new contributors to become Fedora packagers and existing contributors in reviewing their new packages in Fedora.


Sessions

Parag Nemade Senior Software Engineer Red Hat
Paul Hamilton
Paul Hamilton (Co-founder South West Makers)
Paul Hamilton is a co-founder of the South West Makers, in Western Australia. Paul has given talks on using Open Source software in Local Government and various Raspberry Pi hardware projects including some that have been presented at the Shenzhen Makers Faire. He calls himself a Hobbyologist due to his natural curiosity for life, nature and the technological world. He is currently interested in the mashup of electronics, wearables and biology.

Sessions

Paul Hamilton Co-founder South West Makers
Paul Lorett Amazona
Paul Lorett Amazona (Developer N/A)
.NET Developer- served more than 12 years in the investment banking domain delivering end-to-end .NET solutionsCore Volunteer @DataKind Singapore- DataKind uses data science to help NGOs get insights from their data to serve their communities better.Speaker/Workshop Facilitator in local tech communities/conferences- .NET Users Group, Python Users Group, Data Science SG, FOSSAsia, PyCon APAC, etc.

Sessions

Paul Lorett Amazona Developer N/A
Philip Paeps
Philip Paeps (Developer FreeBSD Foundation)

Philip Paeps (“Trouble”) is an independent consultant and contractor based in Belgium. He provides research and development on low-level software and operating systems, particularly in an embedded or real-time context. His main interests are bootloaders, device drivers and high-performance networking. He can also be convinced to teach courses and workshops on a variety of networking-related topics.

In his so-called free time, Philip is a FreeBSD committer contributing mainly to the kernel and a member of the FreeBSD security team. He was one of the main organisers of FOSDEM, the largest annual open source software conference in Europe, from the early 2000s until 2015. He denies having any involvement with amateur radio or tabletop role playing games.


Sessions

Philip Paeps Developer FreeBSD Foundation
Philipp Deppenwiese
Philipp Deppenwiese (Head of Firmware and IT-Security 9elements Cyber Security)

N/A


Sessions

Sat, 16th Mar Training room 2-2

15:45 - 16:30 •  Open Source Firmware

Philipp Deppenwiese Head of Firmware and IT-Security 9elements Cyber Security
Praduman
Praduman (Web Developer FOSSASIA)

GSoc'18 developer in SUSI.AI at FOSSASIA


Sessions

Praduman Web Developer FOSSASIA
Purushothama Shenoy
Purushothama Shenoy (Cloud Expert IBM)
I am working on cloud stuff at IBM in Singapore.

Sessions

Purushothama Shenoy Cloud Expert IBM
Rahul Akolkar
Rahul Akolkar (Worldwide Technical Sales Leader, Data Science and AI IBM)

Rahul Akolkar leads the Worldwide Data Science and AI Technical Sales organization at IBM. In his previous roles, he has worked in AI Expert Services and IBM Research. His work has been featured in a US Super Bowl advertisement, has helped Olympic athletes and has helped numerous clients infuse AI into their business processes. Rahul first got involved in open source communities more than 15 years ago and has contributed to numerous open source projects and industry standards. He is an elected Member of the Apache Software Foundation. In a related space, Rahul has done standards work at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) representing IBM in multiple Working Groups. He is an Open Group Certified Distinguished Architect and also an IBM Master Inventor with dozens of research papers and issued patents.


Sessions

Rahul Akolkar Worldwide Technical Sales Leader, Data Science and AI IBM
Rajika Imal
Rajika Imal (Software Engineer 99X Technology)

Rajika is a Software Engineer at 99X Technology. He is an open source enthusiast and a cloud evangelist. Rajika currently manages projects in SCoRE lab open source community and he's a core committer of NodeCloud, Clocal and Bassa projects.


Sessions

Rajika Imal Software Engineer 99X Technology
Ramya Authappan
Ramya Authappan (Developer Gitlab)

Ramya is passionate about building and designing test frameworks. She has around 10 years of experience and is currently enjoying her role as a Senior Test Automation Engineer in Gitlab. Prior to Gitlab, she has worked with PayPal and Amazon. . “Simple, but powerful” is her slogan for building test frameworks/tools. She is also the Director of WomenWhoCode, Chennai and helps in organising meetups for the same, encouraging women in technology. When she's not working, you can find her spending time with her kid and hanging out with friends.


Sessions

Sat, 16th Mar Event Hall 1-2 (Community Stage)

14:00 - 14:25 •  DevOps on Steroids

Ramya Authappan Developer Gitlab
Ranjith Varakantam
Ranjith Varakantam (Principal Agile Coach Red Hat)

Ranjith Varakantam is the Principal Project Manager of the Devtools Team in Red Hat. Ranjith is a 18+ years experience as a Developer, Entrepreneur and Agile Coach. He and his team have been driving innovation through a culture of collaboration, bringing together a globally distributed team over 16 plus countries, spread across 6 time zones to deliver cloud native toolchains to Red Hat’s Openshift offering.


Sessions

Ranjith Varakantam Principal Agile Coach Red Hat
Remi Denis-Courmont
Remi Denis-Courmont (Lead SW Architect VideoLAN)

Long-time open-source developer, and largest contributor to the VLC media player project


Sessions

Remi Denis-Courmont Lead SW Architect VideoLAN
Rohan Malhotra
Rohan Malhotra (Technical Lead Clarisights)

I am the technical lead at Clarisights (Techstars' 2018) where I created the front end of the platform from scratch which is used by enterprise customers from more than 40 countries. I am passionate about performance, scale, and testing. I love open source and contributed to projects like ant design, firefox dev tools, semantic UI react and Worldbrain. I am also a mentor at Udacity for mobile web specialist nanodegree.


Sessions

Rohan Malhotra Technical Lead Clarisights
Roland Turner
Roland Turner (Chief Privacy Officer TrustSphere)
Roland is Chief Privacy Officer for TrustSphere where he is responsible for the company's information policy and practices. He is a HackerspaceSG founding member and FOSSASIA organiser, holds a Computer Science degree from UTS, and is an avid dancer, runner, and ham radio operator with a particular interest in space.

Sessions

Roland Turner Chief Privacy Officer TrustSphere
Rushil Sharma
Rushil Sharma (Technical Support Engineer OpenShift Red Hat)

I am a total NERD and tech enthusiast , I love Linux and I have been deep diving into computers since I was 11 years old, I have worked with multiple organizations and love to explore and learn new technologies because of the passion I have for it.

I am an avid gamer and I have built my own machine by collecting multiple components one by one over 6 months.

Currently I am working at Red Hat which is my dream company as a Technical Engineer for Openshift support. I solve new problems every day and love challenges.


Sessions

Rushil Sharma Technical Support Engineer OpenShift Red Hat
Ryan Teoh
Ryan Teoh (Security Engineer Grab)

Ryan Teoh (OSCE, OSCP, CRT) is a Security Engineer at Grab with a strong focus on Mobile Security. He spends a considerable amount of time in iOS kernel exploitation, contributing to the iOS security testing chapter and the iOS Crackmes which are part of the OWASP Mobile Security Testing Guide. That aside, he is active on both private and public bug bounty programs and has successfully bagged several critical mobile security bugs. Ryan is a strong believer in knowledge sharing - initiated a security blog on top of facilitating workshops to security engineers, developers and students about mobile security, dynamic instrumentation and reverse engineering of mobile applications.

Sessions

Ryan Teoh Security Engineer Grab
S M Sarwar
S M Sarwar (Reps Mozilla)

I'm an active SuMo and l10n contributor of bn-BD community. From 31st December-2014, I'm active in Mozilla Bangladesh community.

My main view is to release Bengali language pack asap for any release of Mozilla products. I want that people can use Mozilla products in Bengali language and get highest feelings from it.

Beside these, I'm a community leader of Docker - Dhaka, Bangladeshcommunity. Also I'm working as a freelance web developer at Upwork andFiverr.

Like as a Mozillians, I believe in an Open Web where anyone can create, contribute and share. Trying to spread Mozilla's mission and views to the people.

Currently, I'm a junior student of Computer Science and Engineering at Jahangirnagar University. I have interest in competitive programming, VR, Machine learning, IOT security, Artificial intelligence, l10n and open source technology.


Sessions

S M Sarwar Reps Mozilla
Sachin Shridhar
Sachin Shridhar (Vice President, Customer Success Organization, Asia Pacific and Japan Pivotal Software, Inc)

Sachin Shridhar is Vice President, Customer Success Organization, Asia Pacific and Japan, at Pivotal Software, Inc. The CSO group is responsible for all technical services in the region including Solution Architecture, Implementation, Delivery, Consulting and Education.

In his role he is driving Pivotal's offerings to assist customers make the transitions to the software driven world, making software development a core competency and an advantage for businesses.

Sachin has spent over 2 decades in the industry and over a decade in markets across Asia Pacific and Japan. His experiences are in Services and Solutions in technology companies, helping customers and partners be successful with the technology offerings.

Prior to Pivotal, Sachin was the Vice President for APJ Services, Red Hat for over 5 years driving the pre-sales, consulting and education business for them.


Sessions

Sachin Shridhar Vice President, Customer Success Organization, Asia Pacific and Japan Pivotal Software, Inc
Sai Vennam
Sai Vennam (Lead Developer Advocate Cloud IBM)

Sai Vennam is a Developer Advocate at IBM with expertise on managed Kubernetes, Serverless, Hybrid Cloud, App Modernization, Node.js, Go and API Management. He creates developer-friendly content, videos, and samples to showcase the latest and greatest cloud technology. He’s passionate about connecting developers with technology that allows them to be successful. As a hobby, he works on his home automation using Raspberry Pis and serverless technology.


Sessions

Sai Vennam Lead Developer Advocate Cloud IBM
Sanjeev Kumar Biswas
Sanjeev Kumar Biswas (Chief Architect Singapore Press Holdings)

Sanjeev has over 19 years of experience in the software industry. He did his BTech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Kharagpur. He has been at Adobe Systems for 13 years and has worked as a Lead Architect for many initiatives like Creative Cloud Subscription Platform, Desktop Licensing, Software Anti-Piracy and Enterprise Subscription. He was an Adobe Distinguished Inventor and Adobe Founders Award Winner. He has 23 issued USA Patents and more than 30 filed in the USA Patent office. His patents are around Image/Audio processing, Machine Learning, Vector Graphics, Identity and Digital Rights Management.


Sessions

Sanjeev Kumar Biswas Chief Architect Singapore Press Holdings
Sanskar Jethi
Sanskar Jethi (Full Stack Developer FOSSASIA)

I’m a Full Stack Developer and an Open Source Enthusiast, Working as a Linux and a Full Stack Web Developer for FOSSASIA. The FOSS and Linux community fascinated me since I was 12 years of age, Ever since then I follow the strategy of “Every Software is better when it’s free”. I have seen many areas of the tech grow rapidly when they started promoting the FOSS culture. With my experience at developing the SUSI Smart Speaker, Linux Scripting and talk experience at JugaadFest’2018, I assure to deliver the best of my experiences until now to introduce on how promoting Open Source in the Smart Speaker industry will lead to a boom in the Smart Speaker industry and how we have used the FOSS technologies to make it one of the coolest Smart Speaker yet.


Sessions

Sanskar Jethi Full Stack Developer FOSSASIA
Saptak Sengupta
Saptak Sengupta (Fullstack Developer Gitcoin)

Saptak Sengupta is a contributor and maintainer of various open source projects. FOSSASIA, jQuery, Freedom of the Press Foundation and Gitcoin are few organizations under his belt. He is currently working as a Fullstack Developer at Gitcoin, a blockchain dApp. He is also associated with programs like Google Summer of Code, Google Code-In, and Rails Girls Summer of Code as a mentor/supervisor. As an open-source evangelist, he also likes to help out people with programming in general. His core area of dabbling is JavaScript and Python.


Sessions

Saptak Sengupta Fullstack Developer Gitcoin
Saroj Tripathy
Saroj Tripathy (Principal Member Technical Staff Oracle)

n/a


Sessions

Saroj Tripathy Principal Member Technical Staff Oracle
Satyajit Bulage
Satyajit Bulage (Quality Engineer Red Hat)

Hello, I’m Satyajit. Works at Red Hat in CloudForms project as a Quality Engineer living in Pune, India.

Red Hat Certified Architect Level III (Link) and ISTQB Certification .

Free and Open Source Evangelist, Active speaker in Python Express, conducted many Python workshops.

Contributing to Open Source Project like ManageIQ, Fedora, Coala, diaper, xpython, tunirtests projects.

I am a fan of technology, volunteering, and travel. You can read my blog with a click on the button above.

FAS account: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Satya4ever


Sessions

Satyajit Bulage Quality Engineer Red Hat
Saumya Suvarna
Saumya Suvarna (Software Enginner Cisco Systems)

Saumya is a Software Developer at Cisco and is currently working with the Advanced Security Team in the Enterprise Networking Business Unit. At Cisco, she has worked with technologies like DNAC and umbrella that leverage fog computing and machine learning to provide secure solutions that predict and remediate threats before they can cause significant damage. Contributions and the demonstration of the same were showcased at various forums including conferences, Cisco Live and Executive briefing centres for customers.

 

She has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Vellore Institute of Technology. She is enthusiastic about deep learning, machine learning, security and loves to teach her juniors and brainstorm with her peers. She has completed GSoC and has contributed to the open source organisation e-nav and is a recipient of the Google for education Venkat Panchapakesan Memorial Scholarship award. When not coding, she can be found lending a helping hand at various non-profit organisations that work for the betterment of differently abled people, education for underprivileged children and people that suffer from mental diseases.


Sessions

Saumya Suvarna Software Enginner Cisco Systems
Sayan Chowdhury
Sayan Chowdhury (Senior Software Engineer Red Hat)

Sayan works with the Community Platform Engineering Team at Red Hat. His day to day work involves dabbling with container technologies. He is a open source evangelist and contributes to various open source projects regularly. When not in front of the computer, he spends time cycling, playing outdoor sports or travelling around.


Sessions

Sayan Chowdhury Senior Software Engineer Red Hat
Scott Jones
Scott Jones (Managing Director Six Kin Development)

Scott is a Silicon Valley veteran who began his career writing code and managing software development teams for several early Internet startup companies, including Netscape, where he helped build the legendary Netscape Navigator web browser. Mr. Jones also has more than a decade of experience in education, serving as Senior Lecturer at Nanyang Polytechnic in Singapore, and as a researcher at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, working on advanced robotics and AI projects. He has founded three startups and been involved with numerous high tech ventures over the past 25 years


Sessions

Scott Jones Managing Director Six Kin Development
Shagufta Gurmukhdas
Shagufta Gurmukhdas (Volunteer, Techspeaker Mozilla)

I am a Tech-Speaker for Mozilla and have been volunteering for Mozilla for about 4 years. I have been exploring 'virtual reality' as a technology since the past one year and it has indeed been the first time technology has made me feel so excited ever since I came to know about the internet. Apart from that I am also very fascinated by deep learning and its applications and have been exploring that for side projects too! I am the initiator and organizer of Django Girls Pune. I am also a decent artist, and love to play the piano in my free time!


Sessions

Shagufta Gurmukhdas Volunteer, Techspeaker Mozilla
Shanker V Selvadurai
Shanker V Selvadurai (Vice President & CTO of Cloud and Cognitive Software IBM)

Shanker V Selvadurai is currently the Vice President & CTO of Cloud and Cognitive Software for IBM Asia Pacific where he leads the technical organization that helps clients across Asia Pacific to explore and co-create cloud based solutions that leverage data, analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to deliver better decisions and outcomes. Prior to joining IBM in 2006, Shanker held key leadership positions in areas of research, development, consulting, sales and marketing with technology companies like AT&T, NCR and Fujitsu as well as start-up BlueGill Technologies. While leading teams varying in size from 6 to over 1,000 based in North America, Europe and Asia, he amassed extensive experience and honed deep skills in building and applying technology enabled capabilities that transform businesses and organizations. Shanker holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Business Administration. He is also an Open Group Certified Distinguished Architect. Besides having published international patents/papers, Shanker actively contributed in international technology standards committees that include the IFX Forum, OFX Consortium and the Microsoft Advisory Council. As adjunct lecturer at the Singapore Management University, he taught courses related to Services Science and Advanced Business Technology.


Sessions

Shanker V Selvadurai Vice President & CTO of Cloud and Cognitive Software IBM
Sindhu Chengad
Sindhu Chengad (OSS Lead Microsoft)

Sindhu Chengad heads the open source business for Microsoft's Asia Pacific region, and has been with Microsoft since 4 years. She is responsible for defining Microsoft’s open source strategy and for growing the cloud business in the APAC region through key partnerships. She has a B2B background across process consulting, marketing and strategy in the cloud, IT services and computer hardware industries, spanning the US, UK and Asia.


Sessions

Sindhu Chengad OSS Lead Microsoft
Sinny Kumari
Sinny Kumari (Senior Software Engineer Red Hat)
Sinny loves working on Open Source projects and being involved with the community. At present she works on Fedora CoreOS and she is also involved in various Open Source projects like Fedora, Fedora Atomic Host, libabigail and KDE

Sessions

Sinny Kumari Senior Software Engineer Red Hat
Son Le Thanh
Son Le Thanh (Cognitive Solutions Engineer IBM Watson)

I am just another Vietnamese software engineer with a background in computer science (National University of Vietnam) and software engineering (National University of Singapore). I started my career in April 2003 in Saigon, Vietnam and moved to Singapore in July 2006 after being jobless for 4 months.

I have a curious mind in pursuing what I want to do next and learning new skills. In April 2012, I landed in the Valley without knowing anyone. I was offered by Derek Andersen to start StartupGrind in Singapore. I made to be the Chapter Director of the Year in 2013.

Since April 2016, I was building my foray into machine learning with the role at IBM Watson.

Currently, I am pursuing my hobby with painting, reading, writing and mentoring Vietnamese youths.


Sessions

Son Le Thanh Cognitive Solutions Engineer IBM Watson
Sophia Curic
Sophia Curic (CTO Sciencer)

Sophia is a young entrepreneur who loves to experiment, discover and create things 


Sessions

Sophia Curic CTO Sciencer
Sri Harsha Gajavalli
Sri Harsha Gajavalli (Founder ICyberSol)

I am a Cyber Forensic Enthusiast with experience in Machine Learning, Backend Programming and good at maintaining complex and critical systems. I am a Founder of ICyberSol, SocAIty, an AI Developer Community and Farmyzer. At ICyberSol, as a Chief Executive officer, I always strive hard in developing intelligent solutions ensuring the security of businesses, startups and organisations. SocAIty was started with a mission of creating an AI Powered environment by fostering the interactions between students, developers, startupers and professionals interested in AI.  At Farmyzer, as a Chief Technical Officer, I am working on developing an Intelligent and sophisticated tool for farmers by leveraging the benefits of Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning.


Sessions

Sri Harsha Gajavalli Founder ICyberSol
Srikar Mutnuri
Srikar Mutnuri (Developer Tata Consultancy Services)

Currently working as a Unity Developer in TCS Interactive Labs at Chennai, Srikar has over two years of experience in AR/VR, Game Design, Big Data, and Machine Learning. His primary area of interest is in the application of ML/DL algorithms towards Game Design. 


Sessions

Srikar Mutnuri Developer Tata Consultancy Services
Stefan Beyer
Stefan Beyer (CEO Cryptronics)

Dr. Stefan Beyer graduated from the University of Manchester in 2001 with a degree in Computer Science, and obtained a Ph.D. in 2004 from the same university with the title “Dynamic Configuration of Embedded Operating Systems”.

Since then he has worked in computer science research in distributed systems, fault tolerance, ubiquitous computing, and cybersecurity. He is currently working as head of research and development for a medium-sized cybersecurity company in Spain.

Dr. Stefan Beyer has always been interested in computer networks and distributed system and blockchain technology was a natural evolution for him. He now specializes in Ethereum Smart Contract development and auditing, blockchain consulting and teaching and dissemination of blockchain and related technologies in general.


Sessions

Stefan Beyer CEO Cryptronics
Stephen Frost
Stephen Frost (CTO Crunchy Data Solutions, Inc.)

As a PostgreSQL major contributor and committer, Stephen implemented roles support in 8.1 to replace the existing user/group system, SQL column-level privileges in 8.4, and Row Level Security scheduled to be released with PostgreSQL 9.5. He has also spoken previously at numerous conferences, including pgConf.EU, pgConf.US, PostgresOpen, SCALE and others.


Sessions

Stephen Frost CTO Crunchy Data Solutions, Inc.
Steve Chow
Steve Chow (Cloud Solution Architect Microsoft)

Steve Chow makes the cloud work with Azure.


Sessions

Steve Chow Cloud Solution Architect Microsoft
Steven Shiau
Steven Shiau (Researcher NCHC, Taiwan | Clonezilla project)

Steven Shiau is a researcher at the NCHC (National Center for High-performance Computing), Taiwan. While there he developed parallel and distributed program to simulate plasma. This program formed the basic idea for the future development of the free software DRBL (Diskless Remote Boot in Linux), a rapid deployment software for distributed PC cluster and education environment. With Kuo-Lien Huang, Ceasar Sun, Jazz Wang and Thomas Tsai, he developed another free software "Clonezilla", a cloning and imaging tool. He is the project leader of the file system imaging tool “Partclone”, and the maintainer of GParted live. The project DRBL won first place in 'Public Sector Applications' category at the Free Software Contest in France in 2007. He is the deputy division leader of software development technology division at NCHC now, and spends most of his time in the development of DRBL, Clonezilla and promoting the use of free software and high-performance computing.


Sessions

Steven Shiau Researcher NCHC, Taiwan | Clonezilla project
Sudesh K Krishnamoorthy
Sudesh K Krishnamoorthy (Cloud Expert IBM)

Let's make it the cloud way at IBM.


Sessions

Sudesh K Krishnamoorthy Cloud Expert IBM
Sundeep Anand
Sundeep Anand (Senior Software Engineer Red Hat)

Senior Software Engineer with i18n Eng Team, Red Hat. Has software development experience of 8+ years. Interests include linux, web, i18n, containers and devops. Contributes in Ansible, Fedora, Transtats and Zanata projects. Active in community and speaks at FOSSASIA, FUEL, Fedora Flock, PythonPune conferences/meetups. Blogs at sundeep.co.in


Sessions

Sundeep Anand Senior Software Engineer Red Hat
Sunil Samal
Sunil Samal (Associate Software Engineer Red Hat)
Software Developer working at Red Hat. In my current role, my responsibilities were to design the backend system for redhat developer analytics platform, implement end to end test suite, design data pipelines, and bug fixing. I love contributing to opensource projects. During my sophomore year, I contributed to Astropy and Sunpy opensource projects. I love reading books(fiction). My hobbies are playing outdoor sports, cooking and reading.

Sessions

Sunil Samal Associate Software Engineer Red Hat
Suraj Narwade
Suraj Narwade (Software Engineer Red Hat)

Suraj Narwade is an open source enthusiast who contributes to the ODO, Kompose and the Kedge projects. He occasionally contributes to Kubernetes and Libcompose too. He is an active member of the local container-centric meetups in Bangalore and Pune, India. He is also one of the organizer of Kubernetes Bangalore Meetup.

As a software engineer at Red Hat, he works on tools that help developers build and deploy containerized applications. He presented his work at the FOSSASIA 2018, DevOps Day 2017.

When not hacking containers, he can be seen hacking Alexa.


Sessions

Suraj Narwade Software Engineer Red Hat
Tarun Kumar
Tarun Kumar (Student FOSSASIA)

I'm an enthusiast open source software developer. Being an electrical engineer, I've knowledge about electronic related stuffs which makes me interested in open source hardwares too. I believes in working with the community and sharing ideas. I believe one's idea can be better if shared with other people. People should know to create solutions rather than finding the solutions. I encourage developers to implement new changes in the system and will be much happier if I am a part of that change.


Sessions

Tarun Kumar Student FOSSASIA
Team
Team (ComputingSG BuildingBloCS)

We are Junior College / Integrated Programme Computing students from Anglo Chinese Junior College, Dunman High School, Jurong Pioneer Junior College, National Junior College, Nanyang Junior College, Nanyang Polytechnic, NUS High School of Math and Science, Raffles Institution, River Valley High School, Yishun Innova Junior College with School of Science and Technology, Singapore and other O-level Computing schools who want to share our love for Computing! Visit us at buildingblocs.github.io!


Sessions

Team ComputingSG BuildingBloCS
Thorsten Neumann (龚拓思)
Thorsten Neumann (龚拓思) (Chief Technical Officer & Co-Founder SmartPesa)

Thorsten has extensive experience in ICT domain with both strong academic and professional experience, and a strong competence for systems, architecture and integration.


Sessions

Thorsten Neumann (龚拓思) Chief Technical Officer & Co-Founder SmartPesa
Tristan Van Berkom
Tristan Van Berkom (Lead Software Engineer Codethink)

Application and platform developer experienced in product and application design, implementation and management of project life cycles on small distributed teams.

Experienced building products with embedded linux systems, developing cross platform libraries and desktop applications, mobile applications and creating RESTful services with JavaScript web application frontends.

Contributor and maintainer of free and open source software projects and especially familiar with GTK+ and GNOME technologies.


Sessions

Tristan Van Berkom Lead Software Engineer Codethink
Triton Ho
Triton Ho (Tech Guru 17media)

Technology evangelist for database, especially postgresql and Redis


Sessions

Triton Ho Tech Guru 17media
Urvashi Verma
Urvashi Verma (Student Delhi Technological University)

Open Source Enthusiast 


Sessions

Urvashi Verma Student Delhi Technological University
Vinod Kumar
Vinod Kumar (APAC OCP Sr. Technical Lead Microsoft)

Vinod is currently the Senior. APAC Technical Lead for Microsoft Partner Team. He has extensive experience in database technologies using Cloud, Big Data, MS-SQL Server, Oracle and others. He has performed People Management, Project Lead, Architecture Designs, Application Design & Development, Database Design & Administration, R&D, Release cycles in a wide variety of Industries. Vinod is a community person supporting and contributing to local SQL and .NET Groups. He is passionate about spreading the word of technology to community, and has been speakers at all major conferences like TechEd, Author of multiple technical books, Blogger for the past 20 years.


Sessions

Vinod Kumar APAC OCP Sr. Technical Lead Microsoft
Vivek Khurana
Vivek Khurana (Founder & CEO Mintango Technologies)

Vivek is an open source enthusiast working with open source for over 15 years. He specializes in developing applications from scratch. One of his most popular open source module is form wizard for react-native.


Sessions

Vivek Khurana Founder & CEO Mintango Technologies
Wei Tat Chung
Wei Tat Chung (Production FOSSASIA)

Wei Tat is responsible for supporting the production of FOSSASIA hardware and specifically the Pocket Science Lab.


Sessions

Sat, 16th Mar Training room 2-2

09:30 - 10:00 •  Open Hardware Breakfast

Sat, 16th Mar Training room 2-2

10:40 - 10:55 •  Pocket Science Lab

Wei Tat Chung Production FOSSASIA
William Tan
William Tan (Head/Technology Projects ITE College West)

I am passionate about Technical Education: impart Engineering and Technical skills to our next generation. I hope to make engineering and technical education as engaging as possible to Generation Z and beyond. 


Sessions

William Tan Head/Technology Projects ITE College West
Yogesh Ojha
Yogesh Ojha (Cyber Security Analyst TATA Consultancy Services)

Hi, I am Yogesh, a Cyber Security Analyst at Tata Consultancy Services, India.


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Yogesh Ojha Cyber Security Analyst TATA Consultancy Services
Yogi Rampuria
Yogi Rampuria (Senior Platform Architect Pivotal)
Working in FSI space for over a decade with engineering and architecture roles. Full stack developer with lots of experience in enterprise technology. Former co-ordinator for GDG-SG.

Sessions

Sun, 17th Mar Training room 2-2

14:30 - 14:55 •  Right Abstraction

Yogi Rampuria Senior Platform Architect Pivotal
Zack Yeo
Zack Yeo (Cloud Expert IBM)
Let's do cloud stuff!

Sessions

Zack Yeo Cloud Expert IBM
Zhidong Wang
Zhidong Wang (Data Expert IBM)

Let's make big data work with IBM Cloud in Singapore!


Sessions

Zhidong Wang Data Expert IBM
Øystein Grøvlen
Øystein Grøvlen (Senior Staff Engineer Alibaba Cloud)

Before joining Alibaba, Øystein worked for 10 years in the MySQL optimizer team at Sun/Oracle.  At Sun Microsystems, he was also a contributor on the Apache Derby project and Sun's Architectural Lead on Java DB. Prior to that, he worked for 10 years on development of Clustra, a highly available DBMS.


Sessions

Øystein Grøvlen Senior Staff Engineer Alibaba Cloud