Conference Speakers

As the Vice President of WiCyS Austin, Yaamini Barathi Mohan is dedicated to fostering diversity in the industry. With experience in Vulnerability Management at Dell Technologies and Ethical Hacking at RSA Security, Yaamini has worked across penetration testing, threat intelligence, and security automation. Along the way, she has been honored...Read more

Anand Chinnakannan is an AI and Data Science leader with 18+ years of experience delivering large-scale machine learning, analytics, and optimization solutions. He specializes in intelligent supply chain systems, agentic AI, and scalable data products. As a Staff Data Scientist at Walmart, Anand leads advanced forecasting, multimodal AI, and supply...Read more

Since he got his first computer at age thirteen, Kaushal Dalvi has been interested in systems and software performance. He spent days researching performance characteristics of different motherboards, CPUs, GPUs, RAM, and disks to configure and overclock them in order to squeeze the maximum frames per second out of the...Read more

Poorva Dixit is a senior engineering and quality leader with over 17 years of experience building high-performing teams across software development, test automation, DevOps, and AI-enabled quality platforms. She has led complex, cross-functional initiatives in fast-growing and regulated environments, with a strong track record of scaling quality practices while accelerating...Read more

Mike Ennis is a quality management expert with over 15 years industry experience specializing in quality assessments, risk analysis, development and testing in distributed systems environments. As a Test Manager, Mike has worked with several Fortune 100 companies such as IBM, Compaq, BMC Software and Intuit Corp. testing a variety...Read more

Julie Gardiner works as a Principal Consultant at EPAM Systems, providing consultancy, delivery, and advice in all aspects of testing, management, and agile/DevOps. She is a certified Scrum Master and agile coach, who has over 25 years of experience, including time as a Developer, DBA, Project Manager, Head of Operations...Read more

Raj Karan Gunukula is a seasoned technology leader with 15+ years of experience driving large-scale AI, machine learning, and data infrastructure programs across fintech and commerce. He currently serves as Group Technical Program Manager at Coinbase, where he leads AI adoption across the software development lifecycle. Previously at Amazon, Raj...Read more

Aditi Jain is a Software Development Engineer at Amazon in Brand Experience & Excellence, where she builds and test large-scale AI systems used by millions of businesses and customers. Her work spans generative AI, predictive analytics, cloud-native architectures, and accessibility-first design, with a strong focus on reliability, ethics, and inclusive...Read more

Jonathan Kauffman works as an agile software development and test consultant at Coveros, a company that helps organizations develop secure software using agile methods. In this role, Jonathan has helped both government and commercial organizations develop and test high-quality applications, and he has gained his experience by working with health...Read more

Andrew Knight, also known as “Pandy,” is the Automation Panda. He’s a software quality champion who loves to help people build better quality software. Currently, he works as the Senior Director of Product Management at Cycle Labs, focusing on building an excellent test automation platform for enterprise systems. Previously, Pandy...Read more

Christopher Leek is a Quality Assurance Manager with over 15 years of experience in software testing, test automation, and quality engineering. He currently leads and coaches test teams at ClearStar, Inc., where his work emphasizes data-driven quality strategies, API-first testing, and sustainable automation practices. Christopher has deep experience in exploratory...Read more

Janna Loeffler has more than twenty years of software quality experience. She holds a bachelor's degree in computer engineering and a master's degree in business administration. Working in a variety of software engineering roles, including development, testing, quality assurance, and DevOps, has provided her with a holistic view of software...Read more

Niranjan Maharajh is an engineering leader in digital healthcare and medtech. He is Director of Systems, Hardware, and Test Engineering at Johnson & Johnson Medtech and Owner & Principal of NOPMARK Consulting, delivering accredited training that helps engineering teams build reliable products without losing speed. He previously directed Systems Engineering...Read more

Prashanthi Matam is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI, MLOps, and cloud-native systems. She has deep expertise in full-stack development, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and AI/ML telemetry, building scalable production systems on platforms such as Kubernetes, TensorFlow, and Lang Chain. Her work spans intelligent observability solutions, predictive maintenance systems. She...Read more

Rushabh Mehta is a Tech Lead at Meta with 12 years of experience building AI/ML infrastructure at billion-user scale. He currently leads development of environments to train and evaluate LLMs for agentic and tool-use capabilities, including onboarding evaluation benchmarks for rigorous model assessment. He built a Distributed Training Framework adopted...Read more

Chandana Mulpuri is an Information Security and DevSecOps Engineer with over ten years of experience securing enterprise applications and cloud platforms. She currently works as an Application Security Engineer at IBM, where she integrates security testing tools such as Mend, Contrast, AppScan, and Invicti across the software development lifecycle. Her...Read more

Sneha Parthasarathy is a software engineer at Microsoft with deep experience in building and scaling modern, containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and Go. Sneha specializes in microservices architecture, distributed systems, and driving large-scale app modernization efforts. Her work spans everything from designing resilient services and orchestrating workloads in the cloud...Read more

Nixalkumar Patel is a Product Manager at LG Electronics, where he works at the messy intersection of "does this AI actually work?" and "how do we prove it?" He partners with engineering and QA teams to operationalize Generative AI features for consumer products, focusing on AI evaluation: defining measurable quality...Read more

Katryna Peart is an AI strategist focused on how large language models behave inside real organizations. She has evaluated retrieval-constrained and enterprise RAG systems for grounding, alignment, and reliability, contributing to institutional and municipal documentation used in production environments. With 15+ years of experience in regulated and public-sector communications, Katryna...Read more

Jeff Pierce has more than 20 years of experience in software engineering management, specializing in program, project, and software quality assurance management. Jeff is also experienced in building technical teams that are rapidly able to implement solutions and deliver business value. More recently, Jeff has focused on Agile project management...Read more

Parthiban Rajasekaran is an Engineering Manager and quality engineering leader specialising in AWS serverless and event-driven architectures, observability, and CI/CD reliability in regulated FinTech. He leads distributed onshore and offshore teams and stays hands-on through architecture reviews, critical PRs, and incident and problem management. At Capital One, he has helped...Read more

Dionny Santiago is an Engineering Manager at Indeed and has 12+ years of industry experience working as an SW/QA/ML engineer, software/test architect, and engineering manager. Dionny completed his master's thesis on exploring the intersection between AI and test automation and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in this problem space. One...Read more

Sidhartha Shukla is a seasoned Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) with 16+ years of experience, currently working at Amazon. His work focuses on test automation, API testing, Playwright, and AI-assisted quality engineering, helping teams build reliable, scalable, and maintainable test systems. Sidhartha is also an inventor with granted patents...Read more

Mike Sowers has over forty years of practical experience as a global leader of internationally distributed IT teams across multiple industries. Mike is a senior leader, skilled in working with both large and small organizations to improve their agile software development, testing, and DevOps delivery approaches. Mike is an industry...Read more

Shalini Sudarsan is a DevOps Engineering Leader at Kindercare Learning Companies, USA. designing reliable, secure, and cost-optimized data and AI platforms. A Forbes Technology Council Member, Fellow of IETE and Women in Engineering (WIE) Oregon section. She drives enterprise AI adoption with a governed operating model that speeds time-to-market while...Read more