Speakers

Anish is the Co-Founder & CEO of Cortex, helping engineering teams drive adoption of best practices, improve visibility into services and infrastructure, and accelerate productivity.

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Ganesh is the Co-Founder & CTO of Cortex, building the Engineering Operations Platform that gives engineering teams clarity into their services, standards, and overall health.

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Nathen Harvey, Developer Relations Engineer, leads the DORA team at Google Cloud. DORA enables teams and organizations to thrive by making industry-shaping research accessible and actionable.

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Zach Bruggeman is a Principal Software Engineer at Ramp, leading the efforts on Inspect, Ramp's coding agent. In practice, this means he spends a lot of time talking to robots, but still prefers the humans after all.

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Dylan Garcia is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Ramp working on Inspect. His main job is ensuring the robot stays happy for everybody else to use.

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Karthik Jayaraman is a Vice President and Expert Engineer at Fiserv passionate about turning AI ideas into secure, practical outcomes. His experience spans platform engineering, DevSecOps, and enterprise transformation, focusing on making governance work for real engineering teams. He enjoys challenging conventional thinking, simplifying complex topics, and helping people move from experimentation to production with confidence.

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Roshni Sondhi is a customer experience leader currently serving as VP of Customer Experience at Cortex, where she leads Customer Success, Delivery, Education and Customer Engineering. A Georgia Tech engineering grad turned customer success veteran, she built her career through roles at RightNow Technologies, Oracle, Zendesk, and Grafana Labs before joining Cortex.

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Larry Advey is Director, AI Economics at CloudZero, where he leads the practice of measuring the economic return on AI and technology investment. He serves on the FinOps Foundation Technical Advisory Council, maintains FOCUS — the open-source data standard adopted by all major cloud providers, and has mentored a generation of practitioners from operator into architect. As a LinkedIn Learning Instructor, he authored Implementing FinOps Strategies, which launched June 1, 2026.

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Ramandeep is an accomplished technology leader with deep expertise in building and scaling enterprise cloud platforms, developing modern operating models, and driving secure digital transformation. Experienced in cloud infrastructure, application security, distributed identity and access management, and API development, integration, and security, with a track record of delivering resilient, scalable solutions for complex enterprise environments.

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Corey is the Initiative Lead for Etsy’s Platform & Tooling group, and the Senior Engineering Manager for the Etsy’s Service Platform team. Since joining Etsy in 2019, he has managed several infrastructure and SRE teams. Prior to that, he held leadership and software architecture/engineering roles at several technology focused companies including SayForExample/iGain (Vindale), Kaplan, and Concrete Media. He holds a B. Eng in Computer Engineering from McGill University, and is also a composer alumni of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop.

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Prerit is a Cloud-Native Platform Leader with extensive experience designing and scaling secure, resilient cloud infrastructures. As the former CTO of KubeCloud, he built no-code solutions bridging Cloud, DevOps, and SRE, leading the company to a successful acquisition. Currently, he drives cloud-native, observability, CI/CD, and AI initiatives as a technical leader at Groupon.

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Steve Evans is the Chief Product and Technology Officer at Aeries Software, an EdTech company serving millions of students with the vision of improving student outcomes. While his teams remind him he doesn't do "real work" anymore, they still come to him when they need help with Excel.

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James Griffith is one of the Engineering Executive Leaders at Archer, a PE-owned independent software vendor of Risk and Compliance management solutions running in the cloud. Prior to working with Archer, James held positions with Commerce Bank in Kansas City, PA Consulting Group in London and smaller regional firms in the UK. James holds a degree in Earth Science from the University of Oxford.

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Mit has been working in tech since the 1990's, always at the forefront of best practice. Currently at Stoxx and fresh from implementing a brand new cloud operating model to go with a greenfield migration to GCP, he is now building the next generation AI platform that will power his organisation's AI transformation.

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Joshua Marble is a Senior Manager of Developer Experience at Archer, where he leads the DevX team building the internal developer platform that powers Archer's engineering organization. With 20+ years in software spanning engineering, architecture, and people leadership, he is passionate about scaling developer productivity through platform thinking and a first-class developer experience.

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Taylor Schmidt is Director of Customer Education & Delivery at Cortex, where she leads the team responsible for onboarding customers and helping them get the most out of the platform. She owns Cortex Academy, the company’s customer education program, building the courses and content that help customers learn the platform. She also regularly leads live trainings and workshops to help teams get the most value out of Cortex. Taylor works closely with many of Cortex’s largest accounts, translating hands-on implementation experience into practical, real-world guidance.

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Jonty has 20+ years in tech and 8+ years building Platform Engineering teams across public, private, and startup sectors. He's now driving large-scale cloud and SDLC modernization at MONY Group.

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