Guests of DevOps Paradox

Aaron Torres

Aaron Torres is the cofounder and VP Engineering at Klotho, a startup building the next cloud architecture. He is also a huge fan of the Go language and has published two books on the subject. He earned a master’s degree in computer science from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. He has worked on distributed systems, high-performance computing, and on large-scale web, cloud, and microservice backends while at Riot Games, Linden Lab, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Aaron has published multiple papers in the area of storage and I/O, and holds several patents.

Abby Bangser

Abby is a Principal Engineer at Syntasso delivering Kratix, an open-source cloud-native framework for building internal platforms on Kubernetes. Her keen interest in supporting internal development comes from over a decade of experience in consulting and product delivery roles across platform, site reliability, and quality engineering.

Abby is an international keynote speaker, co-host of the #CoffeeOps London meetup, and supports SLOConf as a global captain. Outside of work, Abby spoils her pup Zino and enjoys playing team sports.

Adam Hawkins

Adam teaches teams how to improve velocity, reliability, and quality. He’s the host of the Small Batches podcast and is a Site Reliability Engineer at Skillshare.

Adam Kamor

Adam Kamor, PhD, is the Co-founder and Head of Engineering of Tonic.ai. Since completing his PhD in Physics at Georgia Tech, Adam has committed himself to enabling the work of others through the programs he develops. In his roles at Microsoft and Kabbage, he handled UI design and led the development of new features to anticipate customer needs. At Tableau, he played a role in developing the platform’s analytics/calculation capabilities. As a founder of Tonic.ai, he is leading the development of data generation solutions that are transforming the work of fellow developers, analysts, and data engineers alike.

Ádám Sándor

Ádám Szücs-Mátyás

Ádám worked in different roles over the last decade. Started working on data warehouse and business intelligence tooling, moved over to deal with scalable architecture and data pipeline for custom-made IoT devices. In the last 6 years he’s using Kubernetes and AWS, now being a Cloud/DevOps Architect at a B2C and B2B SaaS company having tens of millions of users and tens of thousands of companies. He prefers to write code in Go, and using Nix to solve complex challenges.

Aharale Batonia

Aharale Batonia, entrepreneur and sales specialist, has dedicated his life to studying and understanding the key elements of communication. He has worked and led for over 20 years in sales departments in insurance and software companies in Israel, and since 2011, he lives in Barcelona and leads his own training and consulting company. More than 10,000 entrepreneurs have participated in his live events and offline trainings, and many more in his online activities.

Ajay Singh

Ajay Singh is a strong advocate for creating products that “just work” to address real-life customer needs. As Zebrium CEO, he is passionate about building a world class team focused on using machine learning to build a new kind of log monitoring platform.

Ala Shiban

Ala Shiban is the co-founder of Klotho, a startup that transforms plain code to cloud native code. He started his journey on Commodore64’s with cassette tapes and (much) more recently worked on distributed systems, developer tools, and large-scale web, cloud, and microservice backends. He’s led smaller teams and larger orgs at both Microsoft’s Developer Division and Riot Games’ Infrastructure Platform org.