devopsdays Houston - Contact

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Our local team

Binh Chau

Organizer

Cloud Partners

Binh is a proven product leader that have launched a number of innovative products for top-tiered companies. She has a track record of creating product strategy and actionable roadmaps and translating them into impactful products for consumers and enterprises.

Carlos Nunez

Organizer

VMware

Carlos is an engineer at VMware Tanzu. Tanzu aims to help companies of any size achieve their digital transformation goals through embracing modern applications on Kubernetes. His mission is to use the power of DevOps, reliability engineering, agile, and first-principles software engineering to help engineering teams of any size make shipping production-ready software as fast, easy, and safe as writing ‘Hello, world.’ More specifically, Carlos specializes in making production fun again for engineering teams in highly-regulated enterprise environments, like finance and healthcare. On his off time, he enjoys working out, road biking, writing, visiting new breweries and doing badly at trivia.

  

Dan Collins

Organizer

American Bureau of Shipping

Dan is the founder of DevOpsDays Houston, and a U of H graduate with over 20 years of experience in software and systems development. In the Microsoft-heavy world of Houston IT, he specializes in non-Microsoft technologies with an emphasis on lean methodology and automated software pipelines. Dan is a recovering, former advocate of embedded IT, a blockchain gadfly and has been leading the Houston DevOps Meetup since June 2017. The future is decentralized, distributed, renewable, sustainable and powered by Houston Texas.

     

JJ Asghar

Co-Founder

IBM

JJ works at IBM on the IBM cloud as a Developer Advocate. He’s focusing on the IBM Kubernetes Service trying to make companies and users have a successful on boarding to the Cloud Native ecosystem.

  

Keegan Cotton

Organizer

Datadog

Keegan is an Senior Account Executive at Datadog. Both a West Point graduate and London Business School alumnus, Keegan has a 20 year track record as a catalyst for both large and small organizations - helping them grow into new markets across several continents. Keegan has led organizations both in and out of uniform, and helped those organizations refine and execute on their business technology strategies. Native Texan. DevOps enthusiast. Avid learner. Proud father and husband.

  

Sagar Karmarkar

Organizer

Tokio Marine HCC

Sagar Karmarkar is an Enterprise DevOps Evangelist with over 25 years of experience in Software Engineering, Software Change/Release Management, Software Testing, and IT Operations. Sagar has held senior technology roles at large enterprises such as Compuware, GE Healthcare, JP Morgan, Fidelity Investments, Home Depot, JCPenney and AIG. Sagar is currently a Release & Automation Manager at Tokio Marine HCC. He is also a SAFe Program Consultant and provides training and guidance to technology teams around scaling Agile practices. He has lived in Katy, TX for the last 17 years.

  

Svetlana Kryukova

Organizer

Two Sigma Solutions

Svetlana is a software development leader with over 20 years of experience in enterprise software. Passionate about building teams, creating new products and solving problems. Co-organizer of Houston DevOps Meetup since June 2018.