Dr. Kishonna L. Gray (@kishonnagray) is an Associate Professor in the Writing, Rhetoric, Digital Studies program at the University of Kentucky. She is an interdisciplinary, intersectional, digital media scholar whose areas of research include identity, performance and online environments, embodied deviance, cultural production, video games, and Black Cyberfeminism. Dr. Gray is the author of Intersectional Tech: Black Users in Digital Gaming (LSU Press, 2020). She is also the author of Race, Gender, & Deviance in Xbox Live (Routledge, 2014), and the co-editor of two volumes on culture and gaming: Feminism in Play (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2018) and Woke Gaming (University of Washington Press, 2018). Dr. Gray has published in a variety of outlets across disciplines and has also featured in public outlets such as The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The New York Times. Follow Dr. Gray on Twitter @KishonnaGray

I am an architect with 18+ years of experience and I am passionate about coding, designing and architecting systems, analyze performance and scalability and above all mentoring and driving the team to create high quality software products. I believe in continuous innovation and learning and applying this to the product implementation to solve enhance the customer experience. I am passionate about the current technology revolution that containers , microservices architecture, Cloud computing and Devops has brought in to not only create scalable distributed system but also making the life of Developers and Operations engineers easier. • A J2EE and Cloud/Devops architect with 18+ years of software development and design experience. Currently I am working as a chief architect for Hybrid Cloud Management (HCM) product in Microfocus managing 5 scrum teams and coordinating with 200+ team size (16 scrum teams) size across 4 geographies following SAFE Agile methodology. • Expertise in the transition of multiple monolithic standalone applications into cloud native scalable microservices in Kubernetes. Actively working in Kubernetes and Docker for past 5 years Experience in configuring and hosting scalable SaaS applications in AWS. Have deployed applications in AWS EKS and ECS. Also basic knowledge of GCP • Implemented the SaaS transition, I have first-hand experience in designing and implementing applications to be multi-tenant by adopting suitable multitenancy model. I am an AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate. • 10 Patents with 4 Grants in the areas of Devops, Hybrid Cloud management. Technical presentations in Hewlett Packard Techcon, Docker meet up #23, Devops Meet up. • Defined the Devops strategy and the CI/CD pipeline process to speed up and improve the quality of product releases. Worked on various tools like Jenkins, Ansible automation tool. • Extensive experience in design and development of J2EE applications using Spring boot, Tomcat, Ratpack, Hibernate, Spring, REST API, Apache Kafka, API gateway with Open API3. I have resolved multiple performance issues in J2EE applications, thread and heap stack analysis. Worked in Pivotal Cloud Foundry PaaS, ELK stack, GCP (Google Cloud Provider) and OpenStack private cloud. Passionate about giving presentations and sharing my knowledge with the community. I have uploaded some of my presentations in Youtube and Udemy

Kishore Mathrani is the CEO of HealthStaff Training Institute, a vocational school that provides quality healthcare education. With an MBA in Marketing from Dr. D.Y.Patil Institute of Management and Research, he has over seven years of experience in the healthcare education industry. He joined HealthStaff as a Marketing Director, where he applied his skills in online marketing, social media marketing, and email marketing to create strategic campaigns that reached and engaged potential students. He also optimized the operations and marketing efforts of the institute by using IT and automation, enhancing the quality and efficiency of the training programs. Moreover, he established sustainable partnerships and mutual growth opportunities through B2B networking, demonstrating his ability to build and maintain relationships. Two years ago, he was promoted to the role of CEO, where he has led the institute to remarkable growth and prosperity. He has a vision to provide exceptional training programs that empower the students and equip them with the skills they need to thrive in the ever-evolving healthcare industry. He fosters an environment of innovation and continuous learning, and pushes the boundaries of vocational training. He is passionate about making a positive impact on individual lives and communities through healthcare education.

Kitiya Palaskas Studio is a multi-disciplinary craft-based design studio, specialising in prop and installation design, content creation, public art/event design, illustration, and creative workshop facilitation, with a focus on traditional handmade techniques reimagined in contemporary ways. With over 12 years crafting for global brands, we create unique and tactile design solutions that help brands stand out from the crowd. Our clients have included Adobe, Etsy, The Washington Post, LEGO, Warner Music, Hasbro, and more.

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