Michael Furman has over 12 years of experience with application security.
Michael Furman has been the Lead Security Architect at Tufin for over 6 years. He is responsible for the security of all Tufin software products.

Tufin has over 2000 customers, including over half of the Fortune 50 organizations.

DevOps Enablement Expert with hands-on experience throughout the software development lifecycle – from design and development up to deployment, marketing and customer support. High expertise in designing and implementing Continuous Delivery for large-scale projects. Extensive experience building and managing infrastructure and DevOps teams.

– Deep understanding of Continuous Integration and Delivery processes.
– Proven IT business management skills.
– Focus on process improvement and optimization, making software businesses more efficient.
– Helping IT managers and CTOs drive cross-the-board DevOps transformation.

Internationally acclaimed speaker and trainer. Delivered talks and keynotes at: DevConTLV, DevOpsDays TLV and Moscow, DevOpsCon München,DevOpsPro Vilnius, DockerCon and Continuous Lifecycle London.

Specialties: DevOps, software delivery, process automation, continuous delivery, effective collaboration, Developer relations, technological evangelism.

Vitaly Davidoff has 15 + years’ experience as a developer and more than 7 years in application security. He is a Sr. Application Security Manager at MyHeritage Israel.

In this position he is responsible for providing Application Security solutions for many products including analyzing security risks, review new technologies and solutions, defining required security controls to handle identified security threats, performing code and design reviews, threat modeling and etc. Vitaly hold CISSP and CSSLP Certifications.

Mykhailo Korbakov started his career in 2003 as a researcher in academic Space Research Institute.

After spending five years working on satellite imagery processing, numerical weather prediction, and wiring it into the network of distributed services he decided to move into more business-oriented domains and moved to commercial software development where continued working on data warehouses and machine learning models for various applications.

A few years later he accepted an offer for the position of Software Architect in fresh company Nimble CRM targeting to disrupt CRM market. He is spending the last 8 years in that company, now at the position of the Director of Engineering.

That long exposure gives a good oversight of how various technical decisions affect business in the long run, both in good and bad ways.

Mark Smalley, also known as The IT Paradigmologist, thinks, writes and speaks extensively about IT ‘paradigms’ – in other words our changing perspectives on IT.

His current interests are the digital enterprise, IT operating models, value of IT, business-IT relationships, co-creation of value, multidisciplinary collaboration, working with complexity, and as the overarching theme, management of information systems in general.

People collaborate with Mark to discover where they are and to visualize where they want to be. Mark is an IT Management Consultant at Smalley.IT and Delivery Partner for GamingWorks’ The Phoenix Project DevOps business simulation.

He is Global Ambassador at the DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA). He is a contributor to bodies of knowledge such as ASL, BiSL, BRM, COBIT, DevOps, IT4IT, ITIL, and VeriSM.

Mark has lectured at various universities and has spoken at hundreds of events in more than twenty countries.

For the last 15 years, Alexander has been analyzing malware and designing cybersecurity solutions. He founded the NioGuard Security Lab to conduct malware analysis, test anti-malware solutions, and perform AI/ML research in cybersecurity. His hobby is teaching cybersecurity at Kharkiv National University of Electronics and universities in the EU. He participated in the development of the EU Cybersecurity Master Program within the Tempus project called ENGENSEC as well as trained the Cyberpolice of Ukraine.

Likes to ride bicycles, preferably not self-writed. Time to time writes in https://t.me/catops about various Devops and cultural things.

Also, has been developing various IT communities for 8 years, most recently – Hashicorp User Group Kyiv.

Idan is an entrepreneur at heart with a passion for bleeding edge open source tech. I love operating at the sweet spot of where business meets technology – the area where we can all drive true impact. Idan started coding at age 14, driven by my intense curiosity of how things worked – especially with computers. His journey since then has taken me through various roles and industries such as defense, security developer, cloud architect, and open-source advocacy. Fast forward to today – he is working at Microsoft on a specialized team where we focus on enabling our partner and startup ecosystem. We help ISVs to rapidly build their products on Azure in an agile, secure and efficient way in order to drive a mutually successful business model. We achieve this by helping to envision and instantiate digital transformations – starting with strategic business leaders and moving all the way to dev teams. Drop him a line at aka.ms/idan

I’m a Principal Technical Evangelist at Amazon Web Services. Helping to raise customer awareness of AWS services and, in particular, helps customers understand the benefits that the AWS Cloud can deliver. I have 20+ years of experience with web development and operations, architecture, IT management, and cloud. Prior to joining AWS, I worked with a variety of key Israeli startups—managing development and operations teams as well as leading cloud adoption and partnerships with major cloud vendors.