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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Nikhil Unni is the Cofounder & Chief Architect of Cortex. He previously worked at Twilio, where he experienced first hand the pain points of managing microservices at scale that lead to founding Cortex. When he's not coding or changing diapers, you can find him playing jazz trumpet.

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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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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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Monty Hall is a Managing Director and Chief Technology Officer of Data, Cloud & Developer Experience within the Technology and Innovations group at Blackstone. He is responsible for operating secure and reliable data and cloud platforms, delivering high quality and timely data…

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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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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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Dan Willman is a Staff Platform Engineer at Milwaukee Tool. His main job these days is to keep the citizen developers from lighting all the AI tokens on fire. So far, he hasn't seen too many of them brandishing torches and pitchforks, which he considers to be the real metric for success.

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Jason Schmitt is Senior Director, Software Engineering at Commerce, where he leads several product development teams and drives the company's effort to keep its platform reliable and high-quality as it scales.

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Eoin is a product and technology leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling platforms, infrastructure, and data products across industries and high-growth businesses. He brings deep expertise in platform strategy, internal developer and data platforms, and practical AI integration, always with an eye toward solving real problems and delivering true value.

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Felipe Vellado is a passionate lead engineer with a relentless drive for solving complex technical challenges. At the forefront of application architecture and standards, he brings structure, clarity, and creativity to engineering teams navigating scale.

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Hariprasad Babu is a platform engineering leader with deep expertise in automation, internal tooling, and continuous improvement. He previously led a Center of Excellence focused on quality and engineering standards, and now spearheads Cortex adoption to streamline software delivery and boost developer velocity.

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