Speakers

    Thang Nguyen
    Senior DevOps Engineer
    Thang Nguyen is 20+ years experience software engineer with a passion for DevOps. In the last 8 years, Thang has been working for major Australian companies as Senior DevOps Engineer and Technical Lead, building cloud and Kubernetes infrastructures and CI/CD capabilities.
    Darragh Kennedy
    Director, Software Engineering
    Highly motivated technologist with over 20 years of ICT experience in Ireland and Australia. Proven track record in delivering large Infrastructure Projects on time and within budget. Demonstrated ability to build operational processes and drive continuous improvement while managing multi-million dollar networks and Data Centers. Exhibited leadership skills empowering a high performance team to produce consistent value to the business. A diversified technical skillset highly qualified to excel in today’s rapidly changing IT enabled business. Darragh has recently been developing his leadership skills and commercial awareness to further his career goals.
    Stuart Moncrieff
    Webs performance Evangelist
    Jayaraman (Jay) Thatchanamurthy
    Director
    Customer Delight Delivered with the help of rich Performance Testing Experience & Collaboration skills gained over these years! SAFe Agilist with solid 17 years of IT experience with 16 years in Performance Testing ,Scripting and Performance Test Management and around 9 years of People, Perception, Stakeholder & Escalation Management experience.
    Kavitha Vipulananda
    Project Director
    An experienced and certified Engineer, Innovator, Program Manager and Philanthropist with extensive experience working in the construction, telecommunications, financial services, banking, government, NGO and media sectors. Masters in IT, Bachelor of Engineering (Hons), Bachelor of Science (Statistics and Psychology), Diploma in Project Management Key strengths include:  Excellent verbal, written, communication and negotiation skills  The ability to analyse a business and project from both a technical and non-technical perspective  Proven ability to lead a project from conception to the delivery
    Sohag Sarkar
    Senior Manager
    I am a Management Consultant in Strategy & Transformation with close to 17 years of advisory experience in Telecom, Technology, Govt & Regulatory, Financial Services (Banking, FinTech & Insurance), Education, Not for Profit, Manufacturing, Mining and Sports industries. • I have adept experience of leading large-scale Digital, Data & Customer Experience Transformations of value US$ 70-100+ million • I have successfully led complex, strategic and multi-geography Program Management initiatives of value US$ 1-2 billion • I possess multicultural competency and engagement experience across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, HK, Philippines, India, EMEA and US • I have experience of working on new-age technology and business areas: Customer Experience Management, Digital, Multi-channel customer experience, Business Analytics and Social CRM • I have demonstrated prowess in high-value business development by means of delivery excellence and building trust-based relationships with C-level executives or stakeholders of marquee clients • I am a team leadership to drive business strategy execution, innovation, capability uplift and growth • I have regularly contributed to Thought leadership publications or point-of-views on contemporary industry topics.
    Bruce Lock
    South Western Region Manager EQS
    Dharmendra Singh
    Sr. Director, Platform & Innovation
    Rajaneesh Balakrishnan
    Advanced RPA Developer & Consultant
    Julie Wilson
    Agile Coach and Managing Director
    IC Agile Certified Coach and Trainer. My delivery experience is considerable in mentoring, coaching and managing high performing project and development teams, running requirement and story elaboration workshops and preparing appropriate documentation. I have managed Kanban using physical cards and tools such as JIRA and Rally. My experience encompasses both in house and externally provided delivery models, including BPO and my accounting skills provide an excellent base to provide cost models and budget preparation. I am a speaker shepherd for Agile Australia and am an active participant in the YOW Software Development Conferences in Australia. I was a member of the Technical Tours sub committee for the Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress held in Australia in 2016. I specialise in coaching non software teams and Government organisations in the application of Agile values and practices to produce high performing teams. I have extensive Project Management ERP experience in the Oracle/PeopleSoft Payroll/Time Management arena. My qualifications include a Bachelor of Commerce and I am CPA (IT Specialist Designation) . I am certified in Agile Initiation, Agile Delivery, SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprise) Leadership, SAFe Agilist and as a Certified Scrum Product Owner. In addition, I hold international accreditation as an IC Agile Coach and IC Agile Trainer. I also have and Prince 2 and PMBOK experience