Thomas is a Senior Software Engineer and Certified ScrumMaster. During his career he has been involved in many projects from building web applications to setting up Hadoop clusters. Thomas's specialization is with Hortonworks Data Platform and Agile Software Development.
Thomas is a proud alumnus of the University of North Alabama where he received his BBA - Computer Information System and his MBA - Information Systems.
He currently resides in north Alabama with his wife and daughter, where
... morehe hacks away at running.
Joe Abraham, CCIE #62417, is a Cybersecurity Architect working in the public sector space, assisting customers develop and implement functional and secure network architectures. He graduated from Excelsior College with an M.S. in Cybersecurity and a B.S. in Information Technology (Network Management). He currently holds many IT certifications to include CCIE, CISSP, GSEC, and CCNP Security. Joe is a mentor to IT professionals and a blogger who spends his time either with his wife and three child
... moreren, exercising, researching and writing about technology, or learning new technologies. Spending much of his experience helping to train and educate IT professionals, he is passionate about teaching and always strives to be a positive influence in the IT field.
With a deep belief that technology empowers people, I build and mentor teams and lead organizations as a senior technology leader (Director/CTO/CIO) while fostering the next generation as a university instructor. My expertise lies in crafting impactful enterprise strategies for cloud, data, AI, and enterprise architecture while focusing on empowering the people who make it all come together.
Karun is passionate about IT operations. He has 20+ years of hands-on experience in diverse technologies ranging from Linux Administration to Cloud technologies, and everything in between. He specializes in modernizing IT operations with automation, end-to-end monitoring, CI/CD and containerization. He holds professional certifications from half a dozen companies, including IBM, Oracle and Splunk. Karun has extensive experience in popular Application Performance Management tools such as Dynatrac
... moree and New Relic; Log aggregation tools such as Elastic Search and Splunk; Software development in Java and Python. He has helped numerous companies implement devops,CI/CD, Monitoring, Log aggregation and Cloud migrations (AWS and Azure) Karun loves to teach. He enjoys producing high-quality, engaging learning materials that are useful for the learners immediately. In his spare time, Karun loves to read fiction, and coach elementary school basketball teams.
Johan Raeymaeckers is a systems management consultant with over 20 years of experience. He has been involved in various large scale Tivoli, Symantec, Microsoft and Splunk projects mainly in the financial market.
Johan is passionate about teaching and course development. He holds various certifications from IBM, Microsoft, Symantec and Splunk, he is also a certified IBM and Symantec instructor. In his spare time Johan loves to spend time with his two sons and enjoys mountainbiking and playing so
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Matt Conran has more than 24 years of networking industry with entrepreneurial start-ups, government organizations and others. He is a lead Network & Security Architect and successfully delivered major global greenfield service provider and data center networks. Core skill set includes advanced data center, service provider, security, and virtualization technologies. He loves to travel and has a passion for landscape photography.