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Gary is currently VP of Engineering at Laudio, and has been involved in technology for almost 20 years. His current tech interests are in team leadership, mentorship, DevOps, cloud architecture, and machine learning. In his free time you’ll likely find him playing sports, traveling, or sleeping.

Lead Database Administrator and an organizer and speaker for the @BuffaloData meetup group. He has over 20 years experience in Information Technology which is heavily influenced by more than decade focusing on Database Technologies, Cloud Operations, Application Support, and Platform Architecture.

Ryan is an operations nerd at heart with a potentially unhealthy dose of software engineering. From humble beginnings learning why the problem always seems to be DNS, he’s been a Principal Engineer at multiple developer tools companies like Ansible and Vendia.

Katie is a Western New York native who’s been a Bills fan all her life. She currently works in the Technology Development Program at M&T Bank in Buffalo. Her hobbies include streaming, game development, and telling anyone who will listen that PHP isn’t just for web development.

Born in San Francisco, grown in Buffalo, educated in Syracuse, and living back in Buffalo after trips thru Rhode Island, North Virginia, and Washington state. Work experience includes for New Relic, AWS Security, Dell Secureworks, and the Syracuse City School District. Zack works as a Principal Security Engineer in cloud security on the defensive side with experience in product security, coordinated vulnerability disclosure, incident response, and threat modeling.