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

Paul Burnside is a seasoned QA Engineer with 25 years of experience, including two decades in performance testing. As a Senior Engineer on FamilySearch's Performance and Scalability team, he brings diverse industry knowledge from consulting, telecommunications, cable, travel, banking, and education. This background gives him a unique perspective on performance...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

Brian Crumrine is a software test professional with 30 years of experience testing and leading teams. He now works at Pulsara building software for communication related to patients with acute medical conditions such as stroke or STEMI. Before Pulsara, Brian worked for a variety of companies from small startups to...Read more

Júlio de Lima is a specialist in Software Testing with 15 years of experience. Júlio has a Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering, a specialization in Teaching in Higher Education, and a Master's Degree in Electrical and Computational Engineering with a focus on Testing and Artificial Intelligence. He currently lives in...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

Péter Földházi was first involved with QA as a beta tester of DOTA in 2006. Since joining EPAM in 2012, he moved towards test automation, and is currently working in the USA as a Quality Architect. He has experience in designing and developing solutions for mobile, web and desktop applications within...Read more

Niti Goel is a quality engineering professional with experience working in cross-functional software delivery teams. Her work focuses on improving product outcomes by integrating testing earlier, advocating for risk-based decision-making, and strengthening collaboration between engineering, product, and business stakeholders. Niti has led quality initiatives across multiple projects without formal authority,...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

Tariq King is a recognized thought-leader in software quality engineering. He is currently the CEO and Head of Test IO, an EPAM company that specializes in crowdsourced and professional testing, development, and automation services. Tariq has over fifteen years' professional experience in the software industry, and has formerly held positions...Read more

Ryan Lee is an executive, founder, and product leader with a background rooted in big data, artificial intelligence, and platforms. He’s launched products for iconic Silicon Valley brands, founded a Marketplace platform company helping next-generation marketplaces compete against Amazon and Walmart. He’s now an Ai enthusiast helping organizations navigate how...Read more

Chris Loder, Senior QA Manager at Privacy Analytics, is an automation enthusiast to the core. His passion and experience allow him to help companies reduce regression time and improve overall software quality. With over two decades of automation experience, he designs and implements automation frameworks, helping companies reduce their regression...Read more

Dr. Lola Longe is a Lecturer of Practice in Practical AI and Intelligent Automation at Sam Houston State University, where she teaches applied AI concepts, ethics, and AI literacy for technical and non-technical audiences. Her work focuses on helping professionals understand how AI systems behave, where they can fail, and...Read more

Jeremiah Marble is a technical AI product leader, author, and speaker who focuses on building high-quality, customer-centric software in the AI era. He’s currently writing code as the CTO of Playbook, an AI-based startup bootstrapping in the EdTech space. He also speaks, teaches, and leads workshops on AI, agents, and...Read more

Aprajita Mathur is a mom, inventor, mentor, and international keynote speaker with over 15 years of experience in software engineering and bioinformatics. She is a CSLLP certified professional and has led testing and development efforts across industries including oncology, genomics, forensics, and agriculture. At Guardant Health, she leads the Bioinformatics Software...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

Cara Moccia is a Senior Product Leader with over 20 years of experience driving digital product strategy and enterprise transformation within a Fortune 100 global organization. She has led both customer-facing experiences and internal platforms, giving her a broad perspective on how products are built, delivered, and scaled. She currently...Read more

Rob Myers is the author of Essential Test-Driven Development (Addison-Wesley, Jan 2026). He has 40 years experience in the software industry (with titles such as UNIX programmer, Java developer, XP coach, and Agile instructor), and has been training and coaching organizations in modern software development practices since 1998. His Agile...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

Nestor Valenzuela is a Sr. Quality Engineering Manager at Paciolan with 17+ years of experience in software quality and performance engineering. He specializes in scalable test automation, load testing, and AI-driven quality practices. Nestor focuses on building collaborative, high performing teams and serves as a Gatling Ambassador, contributing to the...Read more