Featured speakers
swampUP speakers include industry leaders and tech innovators share bold ideas, real-world insights, and the future of DevOps, Security, and AI
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Maciej Mazur
AI CTO
Large scale inference for the enterprise – architecture, security, and best practices
Maciej Mazur is a CTO of Artificial Intelligence in EMEA at Dell Technologies. Based in
Wrocław, Poland, Maciej works with enterprise and public sector customers to help them
successfully integrate and leverage AI solutions for strategic growth as part of their digital
transformation.
As a lead architect on more than one hundred AI projects, Maciej is a recognized AI expert
and industry blogger/podcaster. With his security clearance, Maciej is also able to discuss
strategic projects with customers in governmental space.
With cross sector experience, and deep telco and defense knowledge, Maciej works with
the C-Suite and IT leaders to leverage AI across their organizations, breaking down silos
and optimizing data investments.
Customer inquiries often center on sovereign AI cloud strategies and hybrid cloud
optimization, and Maciej works with them to provide expert guidance on architecture,
implementation, and maximizing GPU utilization in these environments.
He also works on the Dell AI Factory program that provides organizations with the building
blocks for seamless integration of AI models and frameworks into their operations,
enabling them to turn their ideas into practical applications.
Maciej joined Dell Technologies in 2024 from Ubuntu, where he was a Principal Machine
Learning Engineer, and has experience as Chief Data Scientist and lead solution architect
with top IT companies.

Shlomi Ben Haim
Co-Founder and CEO
The Quantum Shift – Rethink Software Supply Chain
Shlomi is Co-Founder and CEO of JFrog, creators of the universal DevOps platform.
He brings over 20 years of experience in building profitable, high-growth information technology companies.
Prior to JFrog, Shlomi was the CEO of AlphaCSP (acquired in 2005 by MalamTeam) and a Major in the Israeli Air Force.
Shlomi holds an MS from Clark University (Massachusetts, USA) and a BA from Ben-Gurion University (Israel).

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Demetrios Brinkmann
Founder of MLOps Community
Evals are your Moat
Demetrios founded the largest community dealing with productionizing AI and ML models. In April 2020 he fell into leading the MLOps community (more than 75k
ML practitioners come together to learn and share experiences) which aims to bring clarity around the operational side of Machine Learning.
Since diving into the nitty gritty of Machine Learning he has felt a strong calling to explore the ethical issues surrounding the new tech he covers. In his free time he can be found building stone stackings in the woods
with his daughters

Eyal Dyment
VP, Security
Beyond Packages: DevOps & Governance Delivered with Trust
Eyal Dyment leads Security at JFrog, where he is responsible for driving the company’s security product strategy and innovation across the software supply chain. With a deep background in AI, machine learning, and data-driven product development, Eyal brings a unique blend of technical expertise and business acumen to the evolving DevSecOps landscape.

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Krishna Nadiminti US
Developer Experience Leader
Handling Hyper-Scale Growth and AI Workloads with Artifactory
Krishna Nadiminti leads Developer Experience at NVIDIA, focusing on improving developer productivity and application lifecycle efficiency. She is an award-winning leader recognized across the tech industry for her contributions to engineering excellence and innovation.

Yoav Landman
Co-Founder and CTO
AI-Driven DevOps Unleashed: The Future Starts Here
Co-Founder and CTO of JFrog, Yoav is the visionary behind Artifactory, the universal artifact repository manager. Prior to founding JFrog, he spent over a decade as a senior consultant specializing in Distributed Computing and Enterprise Build Systems and held several senior technical roles in global organizations. Yoav holds a master’s degree in computing from RMIT University and a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) from the University of Haifa.

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Charles Crowder
Senior Engineering Manager
Artifactory self-hosted Observability with OpenTelemetry & Splunk O11y
Charles Crowder is a Senior Engineering Manager at Cisco on Splunk’s SDLC Infrastructure team, and has been with Splunk for 6 years working both as an IC delivering cloud infrastructure, and now as a leader within SDLC.
When not at work, he enjoys family time with his daughter and hobbies like 3D printing, photography, and mountain biking.

Yuval Fernbach
VP, MLOps
AI Demands LLMs at DevOps Speed
Yuval Fernbach is VP and CTO of MLOps at JFrog, where he leads the integration of a fully managed ML platform following JFrog’s acquisition of Qwak, which he co-founded. With deep expertise in AI and infrastructure, Yuval helps teams streamline the entire ML lifecycle, from data prep to deployment, bridging the worlds of MLOps and DevOps for secure, scalable AI delivery.

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Ciro Greco
Founder and CEO
The End of Manual DataOps: Git for Data and the Automation of AI Infrastructure
Ciro Greco – founder and CEO at Bauplan, a serverless computing platform for complex data workloads. Developers can write complex, multi-language data pipelines with zero environment management and infrastructure configuration and the same instantaneous feedback loop as running code locally.
Formerly, he was the founder of Tooso, an NLP startup based in San Francisco. Tooso was acquired by Coveo in 2019 and Ciro was in the management team that brought Coveo to IPO in 2021.
In a previous life he got a PhD in Neuroscience at Milan-Bicocca, a postdoctoral fellowship at Ghent University and he was visiting scientist at MIT.

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Sai prasad Veluru
Software Development Engineer
Mastering Modern Tech Stacks: Optimizing Performance at Scale
A software engineer specializing in large-scale data processing, AI-driven automation, and real-time infrastructure. Currently working at Apple, leading projects that optimize data pipelines, enhance system performance, and integrate AI to streamline operations. Passionate about distributed systems, Kafka, and cloud-native architectures, with a track record of solving complex engineering challenges at scale.

Yossi Shaul
SVP, DevOps
Beyond Packages: DevOps & Governance Delivered with Trust
Yossi Shaul is the Senior Vice President of DevOps Core at JFrog, where he leads the development of the company’s core DevOps platform. With a career spanning over two decades in software engineering and leadership, Yossi has been instrumental in shaping JFrog’s comprehensive solutions that integrate DevOps, DevSecOps, and MLOps practices.

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Gaurav Saxena
Director of Engineering
Resiliency by Design: Internal Platforms’ Contributions to Cloud Stability
Gaurav Saxena is an engineering leader in the field of platform and cloud engineering with over 20 years of experience in the software industry. His technical expertise includes Stream-based architectures, Kubernetes, Service Mesh, and Observability.

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Ricardo Aravena
Cloud Infrastructure Lead
From Pipelines to Production: Cloud Native AI Gets Real
Ricardo is making daily impactful contributions as an AI Infrastructure Lead at Snowflake. He’s passionate about open source in various roles, such as co-chairing the CNCF TAG-Runtime and leading the Cloud Native AI Working Group. With over 25 years of experience in the tech industry and a diverse professional background, he has held various roles at major companies such as Rakuten, Cisco, and VMware, as well as startups like Branch Metrics, Coupa, HyTrust, Exablox, and SnapLogic. His most recent role at Truera involved automating cloud infrastructure for a large-scale AI/ML Observability solution.

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Stephen Chin
VP of Developer Relations
Efficient DevOps with Agentic GraphRAG
Stephen Chin is VP of Developer Relations at Neo4j, member of the Open AI Alliance, and author of several titles with O’Reilly, Apress, and McGraw Hill. He has keynoted numerous conferences around the world including AI DevSummit, Devoxx, DevNexus, JNation, Shift, JavaOne, Joker, swampUP, and Open Source India. Stephen is an avid motorcyclist who has done evangelism tours in Europe, Japan, and Brazil, interviewing developers in their natural habitat. When he is not traveling, he enjoys teaching kids how to do AI, embedded, and robot programming together with his daughters.

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Richard Clark
Senior Solutions Architect
From Vinyard to Version Control: The DevSecOps of Winemaking
Richard is a Senior Solutions Architect with JFrog. He is also an entrepreneur/inventor, having previously run a startup in the Internet of Things space, where he holds technology patents and has been a key member of several M&A startups. In his spare time, he enjoys cooking and traveling with his wife and two girls, working on projects with them in his garage-turned makerspace and is also an experienced winemaker.

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Saloni Garg
Senior ML Engineer
Managing Binaries, SBOMs, and Compliance with JFrog
International Red Hat Women in Open Source Awardee | Mozilla Open Leader 2019 | a strong open source diversity supporter | Google Venkat Scholarship winner | Speaker| Wayfair

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Shimi Bandiel
Senior Solution Architect
Compliance: The Holy Grail
Shimi is an experienced consultant and developer who specializes in building performant DevOps CI/CD pipelines.
Before his current role as a Strategic DevOps Acceleration Solution Architect @ JFrog, Shimi was the CTO of Trainologic responsible for high profile consulting and training about DevOps, architecture and performance tuning.

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Vijay Kumar Soni
Expert Application Engineer
DevSecOps in Hybrid Cloud: Securing the Future of Critical Systems at Scale
Vijay Soni is the Expert Architect & Engineer at Discover’s business technology department. He architected and designed Discover’s Open banking and Click to Pay ecommerce Digital Wallet Payments platforms. He is seasoned software engineer and passionate about solving complex emerging finance, digital payment, identity and payment product problems using secure, futureproof and innovative approach.
Vijay also led multiple EMVCo, eCommerce, Mobile SE/HCE Payments technology initiatives as lead architect and engineer.
Vijay has worked on large financial services & payments technology integration projects including Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay, Click to Pay and FDX Open Banking integrations, Pay with Rewards, Contactless Mass Transit acceptance etc..

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Yonatan Arbel
Developer Advocate
Deploy Artifacts (Even Order Pizza!) with MCP
A software developer with rich experience spanning over 12 years. For the past 7.5 years, I have been a valuable member of the JFrog team, a prominent tech company. Over the years, I progressed through the organization and eventually found my place within the Infrastructure group.
I have a genuine passion for technology, which has been a guiding force throughout my 12-year career. My work at JFrog has included significant contributions to the development of the JFrog Platform.
My journey is a testament to my dedication and the opportunities that the tech industry offers to those who are eager to learn and grow. As a speaker, I am excited to share my experiences and insights with others in the tech community.

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Yasodhara Varma
VP and Lead Software Engineer
Building Scalable Machine Learning Platforms: A Practical Guide for Engineers
I am a seasoned Lead Software Engineer with 25 years of experience in machine learning, big data, and cloud infrastructure. As a Vice President at JPMorgan Chase, I have led the design and migration of large-scale ML platforms from on-premise Hadoop to AWS, optimizing model training and governance. I specialize in Python, TensorFlow, Spark, and AWS services, driving innovation in fraud detection and credit risk assessment. With expertise in DevOps, distributed computing, and AI-driven solutions, I am passionate about building scalable, efficient platforms that empower businesses to harness the full potential of cloud and AI technologies.

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Nicholas Shine
Principal Software Engineer
JFrog Artifactory Active/Active HA DR infrastructure Split-Horizon DNS for Public/Private Access
Nicholas Shine is a Principal Software Development Engineer at Cisco on Splunk’s SDLC Infrastructure team, and has been with the team for 4 years innovating several critical components within our SDLC systems supporting engineering as a whole.
When not at work, he enjoys family time with his wife and two daughters and hobbies like homelab / automation, woodworking, and drone photography.

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Pavel Klushin
Senior Manager, Solution Engineering
MLOps in Action: From Experimentation to Production, Delivering AI You Can Trust
Pavel Klushin is an ML expert with over ten years of expertise in cloud engineering. His work focuses on integrating AI with cloud infrastructures, enhancing performance and driving innovation across various industries.

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Nireesh Thiruveedula
Lead Software Engineer
Efficient and Well-managed Artifact Governance
I am a Lead Software Engineer and Artifactory administrator at CapitalOne with 18 years of experience in developing enterprise solutions in the Financial Tech and Insurance domains. I hold a patent for a Business-to-Enterprise application developed for StateFarm Insurance, showcasing my innovative approach and technical expertise. My role involves designing and managing scalable solutions, ensuring robust artifact governance.
Outside of work, I enjoy cycling, which keeps me energized and focused. Originally from the southern part of India, I bring a diverse perspective to problem-solving and team collaboration.

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Ronny Belenitsky
Director of Product
Secure & Streamline Your Software Supply Chain with JFrog, Strengthening SDLC Integrity, Step by Step
Ronny is a Product Director at JFrog, where he leads strategic initiatives across DevSecOps and SDLC innovation. With a strong background in cloud-native technologies and application lifecycle management, Ronny plays a key role in shaping products that empower enterprise engineering teams to build and release software more quickly and securely.
Prior to JFrog, Ronny was the VP of Product at Titan, where he scaled product organizations, launched market-leading solutions, and drove enterprise adoption globally. He brings over 15 years of experience in building impactful software products, combining technical depth with strategic vision.

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Mohammad Saheer Padinharayil
Manager | AI & Cloud Security Enthusiast
Securing AI Models and ML Pipelines: Best Practices and Pitfalls to Avoid
AI security and cloud-native pipeline expert with about a decade of experience in building scalable, secure ML platforms. Currently leading Payment Integrity and Automation efforts at CVS Health with a focus on ML governance and infrastructure. Frequent speaker on GCP, AI/ML and enterprise-scale MLOps.

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Hariharan Ragothaman
Software Engineer
Unified DevSecOps Pipelines: Accelerating Secure Deployments with NLP & JFrog Xray
Hariharan Ragothaman is a Software Engineer at AMD, leading server validation for AI and GPU platforms. Prior to this, he served as a Lead Software Engineer – System Design and Architecture (Manager) at athenahealth where he designed and developed ‘Unified Deployment Pipeline’ to integrate multiple tech stacks, enhancing service visibility and improving release and product quality. His work in commercializing the macro-service hybrid cloud (Amazon EKS, AWS Local Zones, and AWS Outposts) was a major step towards modernizing the athenaOne platform. At Bose, he developed scalable firmware for wireless audio products and led AVS/GVA integrations. He received his Masters degree at Northeastern University, Boston.

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Jeremy Adams
Head of Ecosystem
Zero to Hero: Self-Healing CI/CD with JFrog, Dagger, and AI Agents
Jeremy is a senior leader with both a technical and a strategic streak. Passionate about people and entrepreneurship, integration and automation. Through technical/business roles at Dagger, GitHub, Twistlock, and Puppet, Jeremy has both zoomed in and zoomed out a lot, acquiring an appreciation for the details and an ever-broader sense of the big architectural picture.

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Gal Zilberman
Senior Product Manager
Empower Your Organization with Smarter Retention Policies
2022 – now: Senior Product Manager, JFrog
2021-2022: R&D team leader, Orbit Communication Systems
2018-2021: System engineer, Orbit Communication Systems
2014-2018: Student position, Intel
2005-2014: Naval combat officer, IDF

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Krishna Chaganti
Associate Director
Mastering Vulnerability Management and Secure SDLC: A Deep Dive into Enterprise Application Security
Hi, I’m Krishna an application security expert with 13+ years of experience in penetration testing, vulnerability management, and DevSecOps. I specialize in SAST, DAST, threat modeling, and CI/CD security automation, using tools like Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, and Metasploit. Passionate about integrating security into development, I mentor, speak at conferences, and conduct hands-on workshops. My mission is to help teams bridge the gap between speed and security, ensuring innovation without compromise. Let’s build secure applications togethe

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Luis Caro Campos
Conan| R&D Team Lead
Conan 2: security features for enterprise-grade C++ projects
Luis is an Electronics and Computer Engineer, currently working a R&D Team Lead in the Conan Team at JFrog. He started his journey with C++ in university doing research in the field of Computer Vision. Since 2015 he has been based in the UK and has worked in the field of 3D Scanning, and more recently in the field of Robotics (Autonomous Driving) at Oxbotica, before joining the Conan team at JFrog in 2022.
Over the years, Luis has become concerned with the problem of enabling C++ Software Development at scale, working on the tooling and processes that enable large teams of C++ developers to focus on writing code.

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Haggai Philip Zagury
DevOps Group & Tech Lead
Farm to Table Software Delivery: DevOps to Platform Engineering
25+ years if experience as an IT Systems Engineer.
I lectured in various conferences in Israel and abroad.
Bootstrapped my career as a systems administrator in a small StartUp, and a few years later learned about my passion to learn & teach 😉 ,
My Day job was running production for a small ISP running various sub-systems, which quickly grew in demand, my journey continued when I joined Tikal ~16 years ago as a Configuration Manager and grew from there into the DevOps field.
I’m not the traditional geek 😉 I am very passionate about what I do ♾️.
HagZag


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Kunal Mazumdar
Tech Lead
Empower Your Organization with Smarter Retention Policies
Kunal Mazumdar is a seasoned software professional specializing in full-stack web solutions and scaling web applications. With expertise across DevOps, Aviation, and Developer Experience, he brings a unique blend of technical depth and industry insights.
He has contributed to enterprise and commercial SaaS applications, leveraging Java, JavaScript, Go, and Python. His DevOps expertise helps streamline workflows, automate deployments, and enhance software reliability.
Beyond tech, Kunal is a passionate singer who finds harmony in both music and software architecture. His talks are engaging, practical, and packed with real-world insights, making complex topics accessible to developers and architects.

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Brett Smith
I’m Smitty and I am afraid of robots
Platform Engineering: Herding the Electric Sheep & Some Frogs
Software Architect/Engineer/Developer with 25+ years of experience.
Specialties: Event Driven Automation, Continuous Integration/Delivery/Testing/Deployment, Supply Chain Security
Expertise: Linux, packaging, and tool design.
Currently Engineering and Securing the Supply Chain with Event Driven CI/CD gitOps Pipeline Architectures that leverage Kafka, Go,
and Python running in Containers on Kubernetes and SBOMs.

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Aman Sardana
Senior Principal Application Architect
DevSecOps in Hybrid Cloud: Securing the Future of Critical Systems at Scale
Aman Sardana is a technology professional in the financial services and payments domain. He is a hands-on technology leader, enabling business capabilities by implementing cutting-edge, modernized technology solutions. He is skilled in designing, developing, and implementing innovative financial technology solutions that drive business results and establish best-in-class operations.
Aman did his Masters in Information Technology from Northwestern University. This unique program straddles between the business and technical side of information technology, focusing on data mining, information security, enterprise architecture, statistics, innovation, marketing and finance.